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THE CANDLESTICK (CARLOS Garatea)

Carlos Garatea

best of the first round is that results force us once again, to look and take the country as whole. Lima is Peru, and vice versa. But they also force us to recognize that suffer from ills atavistic: no memory, racism lives on the surface, lack common sense in the political class, money above human development, lying is a habit, "resiliency" a strategy coexistence, indifference and so much more can be added here that the list could easily grow. Of course there are famous and remarkable people. But these (and other) evils are in our environment. It seems that now have conspired to put us to a grim future and those who led Peru to a vicious and corrupt dictatorship again be an option for millions of people. Where was to stop the growth of Peru advertised? What grew? Are we better?

Not surprisingly, for example, that during the first stage, the candidates agree on one thing: education is wrong. Go novelty. After this match promises ripped improvement: more schools, more divers, more shoes, more poles, more computers, more technological institutes, more tests to teachers, better pay, better breakfast, new rosters and even did not miss who thinks that the solution would come from the sky, not God, who is now busier than ever with us, but a satellite launched into space. It seems absurd but that and two or three trivial promises reduced the formulary. Reduce

solutions to it not only shows the priorities or the populism that has in mind, but obviously not understanding what it is the problem. It is no longer clear that education takes place in a classroom. Nobody has mentioned. Any reform has to be incarnated in the relationship building between teacher and student. There is no education without someone to teach and no one to learn, nor are given without libraries, good books, pencils and notebooks. Few things are so obvious and fundamental as that.

All are silent how they will ensure students to complete high school with better analytical skills, with improved performance in reading comprehension or mathematical reasoning, with adequate provision to justify personal views and respect the opinions of others, with an ethical attitude that enables them to participate in a society peacefully and in solidarity, with a general culture that allows them to be located in the world and in history. They all insist on the technological dimension, but who do become concerned citizens? Why did they import the arts and humanities? If it were from the start of the campaign, from April 10 the discussion has depleted to the point that all you lose sleep is the Constitution and the continuity of the economic model. Therefore, "we must remember and insist that the country is more than the management of its economy and the welfare of their companies (...) A country's history, dignity, culture, identity and especially the future" (Masks, 14.4. 11).

Education is the future. So clear and precise. It is unacceptable that those who endorsed the killing of the Cantuta and Barrios Altos, sterilizations of poor women, the "authentic interpretation" or those involved in the purchase of journalists, judges, congressmen or who believe that only State leads to the development and deny freedom and private initiative, are they, those engaged in education morning in Peru. Do you imagine those subjects discussing the importance of ethics training or comprehensive colleges and universities? As

PUCP is backed by a long and fruitful work of recognized service to Peru, through the efforts and dedication of teachers, students and administrators, as part of a modern educational model, rooted in a comprehensive education in tolerance and freedom, just as or perhaps better, for that reason I have to insist that education is also part of the dilemma that live. The future is not confined to the behavior of the stock exchange or the exchange rate. It's so much more. Education is thus in the spotlight. Do not be naive but neither mistake again.

(Appeared on Monday in Punto Edu ).

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19 reason to vote for Humala (Alvaro Vargas Llosa)

Alvaro Vargas Llosa

1] With Fujimori, moral learning of the ruling class in Peru, which has invested values \u200b\u200band believes that freedom and human rights are a lunacy be interrupted. Raise the banana republic.
2] With Fujimori, the "model" will be the preserve of certain hucksters: gangster commercialism is the negation of a free economy. The annual growth of democratic decade was three times higher than the 90.
3] With Fujimori will cancel the possibility that poor people regain their dignity: the method to communicate with them in the 90 was the dependency, forced sterilization, and the lime pit.
4] Under Fujimori, the terror will be installed in companies, editorial offices and courts. The firings, threats and chapters in leading media group and radio are an abracadabra Arequipa advance. The Fujimori is not an idea or project is a method. The method of Al Capone (without the detail of the cigar).
5] With Fujimori, we ensure that the Judge César San Martín, a luxury for the Judiciary, abominable suffering persecution.
6] The condition ethical, political and intellectual Fujimori Botafumeiro enough to know where should not be. For your hire economists copycats, its imported television Harlequins (with "dumping") and was thought pelafustanes cyber Borges's phrase: "He had trained in the habit of pretending that it was not someone to discover his condition as one" .
7] The candidate for first vice-president Fujimori is a coup. The candidate for second vice president is almost fascist and equally foolish. In terms of authoritarianism, "almost" is an aggravating and "dumb" redundant.
8] In countries where things are in place, not jail the inmate rules. The Diroes is now the property of the Fujimori. The danger the candidate is not released to the parent but the parent lattice to the daughter and the whole country.
9] Ollanta, there is a greater guarantee of democracy. If he commits an excess, you jump right to the neck. If Fujimori committed a crime, right applaud like seals.
10] Ollanta, the "model" might acquire more social legitimacy. There were two American events in the last decade: the expansion of the middle class and the modernization of part of the left. If Ollanta, under pressure, gives the final leap, Peru will join a list of art. The development is not possible without a left liberal.
11], and assuming Ollanta modernization definitively close the way to future populist strongmen. In Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and El Salvador, the moderate left has undermined the emergence of enlightened leaders.
12] The worst defeats of Hugo Chávez has not done the right but the left. Criticism of the Uruguayan José Mujica of Venezuela on the day of his inauguration, and now, the breaking of Paraguay Fernando Lugo in Caracas Venezuela have further isolated. Why give him Ollanta tray now that he has refused? A Latin American statesman who has to know just how secure a private meeting with a large European media group: "I know personally: Ollanta not follow Chavez line. "
13] For some difficult reforms, the left can be bolder than the right. Mujica in Uruguay has just proposed school vouchers, subsidies to educational demand, and has embraced the opening Lugo in Paraguay: thanks to foreign investors, their small country just beat Argentina's beef exports. Ricardo Lagos in Chile opened trade rather than the dictatorship of Pinochet.
14] In times of democratic resistance, I had to get to Ollanta in the hotel that served as headquarters. He and his wife wanted to be linked to the cause which led Toledo. Peru is divided between those who fought at a disadvantage by freedom and those who had been stabbed in the back. His instinct at that time was accurate border. Its serious bugs later, it paid in 2006, do not remove it.
15] The next President will touch you deal with the ruling of The Hague on the maritime dispute with Chile. If for some reason the ruling proves unfavorable to Peru, Ollanta is preferable constrained by the responsibilities of State.
16] is much more healthy to have a Alan García Ollanta making opposition to that understanding with a government of Fujimori to charge for services rendered.
17] Peru Posible, despite the contortions of these days, give the required majority Ollanta to govern. That will be one of the best guarantees that adheres to constitutional limits.
18] has emerged an opportunity to make the emergence of the fascist threat in the chance of an understanding between the left and liberals. There are historical precedents. In 1989, the coalition of conservatives and communists in Greece ended with a corrupt government. In Mexico, the PRD and the PAN's Felipe Calderón, with common applications, have ousted the PRI in several states and may be together in the presidential election. In England, Liberal Democrats (left) and moderate conservatives have avoided the continuity together.
19] Ollanta is the possibility that democracy is to straighten the Democrats twisted in these 10 years. Are responsible for this recycled entrepreneurs reporters enfeoffed the mafia, politicians allied with them to resolve their disputes with other Democrats stupid, stolen monies were not fully repatriated and many accomplices who "went piola" (for using a argentinismo) without being processed. Why did Alexis de Tocqueville: "The habit of inattention must be considered the greatest vice of democracy." If Ollanta wins, democracy be sure to pay attention in future millimeter.

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