RE:ADUVIRI AND EVO TOGETHER FOR AN AYMARA NATIONWell, I have to tell you that again you're being deceived by the speculations of a journalist, who makes false and tendentious statements based only in unreliable sources like Aduviri's "Government Plan" and even based in unspecified sources like when this journalist affirms that Aduviri met twice with Walter Chavez during his campaign, claim that has been denied by Aduviri himself in other interview with the same newspaper (Peru21). Regarding Aduviri's "Government Plan" it should be noted that as we say in Peru "paper holds everything", and it is customary in Peru to "fill" government plans with texts from other sources (copy-paste) and there's no problem about that because nobody read these plans anyway, only a journalist seeking for sensationalist material would read this endless pages.
digingdeep wrote:
Both are looking for an Aymara nation, where natural resources are controlled and belong into the benefit of the peasants.
False. The only source about this "looking for an Aymara nation" is this "Government Plan", and it has been denied by Aduviri himself in other interview with the same newspaper. What is true is only Aduviri's (respectable) opinion that Peru should copy the bolivian model for the exploitation of natural resources and that Peru shoud be a "Plurinational" nation as is Bolivia.
digingdeep wrote:
Aduviri as President of Puno Region has the total political control over the 110 Districts of Puno and the 950,000 voters.
False. In Peru Regional Governors have control over the region's resources, not over the people. What is true is that Aduviri has strong influence over the majority of Aymara people, which I estimate is less than 40% of the total population of Puno and are concentrated in the southern districts of Puno, far from PLU claims. Many (i think half of them) of Aduviri electors voted for him not because of his agenda (or opinion) about natural resources but because they are just fed up with having openly corrupt governments.
digingdeep wrote:
So he has made publicly clear, that he will play the Compulsory Consultation card, based on the protection of the indigenous and aymara rights, and doing that, will use the peasants and his political arm to take the control of the situation.
Tendentious. The "Compulsory Consultation" is not a "card" in a "game", it's mandatory and it includes only communities that are directly affected by the project, and it's a right for every person that is part of these communities, not only "indigenous" or aymaras.
https://peru21.pe/politica/vas-aduviri-nuevo-peligroso-discurso-sur-451961 Where are you going, Aduviri?: a new and dangerous speech in the south Puno and Bolivia not only share the most important lake in South America. Since the last regional elections, its leaders have begun to share ideology and a nationalism that goes back to pre-Columbian times. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, now has as a strategic ally Walter Aduviri Calisaya, the new governor of Puno. In the south of the country, the closeness between the two is not a secret.
That is why no one was surprised that Evo Morales interceded with the president of Mexico, Manuel Lopez Obrador, to officially invite the elected governor of Puno to his oath. In this way, Aduviri attended the inauguration in Mexico like if he were another South American leader.
THE ADVICE
During his campaign, and despite being in hiding, Aduviri held several meetings with two advisers of the Bolivian president. One of them is Walter Chavez, a fugitive from Peruvian justice for belonging to the MRTA.
Chavez was accused of sending letters, making threatening calls and extorting two businessmen on behalf of the terrorist movement. In 1990, the Dircote arrested him and his two victims, who gave him money, identified him. He managed to escape and took refuge in Bolivia. In 1992, that country declared him a political refugee.
Walter Chavez is a communicator who in 2006 became an advisor to the presidential campaign of Evo Morales. In Bolivia, the victory and continuity of the current president is attributed to him. When Morales assumed power, he appointed him a counselor of his government and ratified political asylum.
In 2008, the Supreme Court of Bolivia rejected Peru's request for the extradition of Walter Chavez for the crime of terrorism.
Chavez was a kind of mentor for Morales, but in 2016 they distanced themselves. Then, Chavez left for Argentina, where Interpol stopped him for 65 days. Until the Argentine government, in the hands of Cristina Kirchner, granted him the status of provisional refugee. Last year he returned to Bolivia, reconciled with Evo and began advising Aduviri, the protege of Evo Morales.
This advisor is responsible for the development and dissemination of Aymara nationalism that Aduviri now raises for Puno and the southern regions. ANDEAN PROJECT
Aduviri raises the same speech that Chavez promotes: the struggle for the claim and unification of an Aymara nation, held by the original peoples of South America.
The government plan of Walter Aduviri records his race and territory claims with the name of Andean Historical Project.
"As long as the neoliberal model remains in force to continue looting our resources (...), we can not remain unarmed, we must be prepared against any type of threat that comes from the West and we have no alternative but to plead to a single struggle: the continental sovereignty of our Abya Yala (South America), without neglecting the struggle for the consolidation of our plurinational state", reads the plan.
In 2009, Evo Morales modified the Constitution of his country and changed the Republic of Bolivia for the Plurinational State of Bolivia. In 2011, Walter Aduviri declared, for the first time to the Puno press, his intention to unify the entire Aymara population of Peru, Bolivia and Chile in a single nation.
Now there is talk of a great march that would congregate the Aymaras of Bolivia, Puno, Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna, Arica, Iquique and Antofagasta.
THE LITHIUM IN HIS HANDS
The project of unification does not remain in ideas. The economic proposal of Aduviri replicates the Bolivian model. The new governor of Puno told Peru21 that the Aymara communities should own the natural resources of their region.
"Bolivia has lithium and there are also Aymara and Quechua people. Do they stop work so that the lithium is not exploited? On the contrary, they support because the lithium belongs to Bolivians and benefits everyone. Therefore, when we propose that Peru should implement the use of natural resources according to the Bolivian model, I ratify", says Aduviri.
From its position of authority, plans to "put on the agenda" the change of the model of exploitation of hydrocarbons and metals in the Puno region.
"Bolivia does not live according to its natural resources. The private sector participates in the exploitation, but is not the owner. What we need to discuss is the Bolivian model", insists the governor. Although it has its plans defined, it has not been clear regarding the exploitation of lithium reserves in Macusani (Puno), which is one of the largest on the planet.
"We can not talk about lithium if we do not have legislation in that area. Unfortunately, we have had bad experiences with natural resources. Today we do not own or benefit from them", he says.
As for informal mining - or mining of the town, according to Aduviri - it assures that there are five thousand miners from Puno who are in the process of formalization and who will be given technical and legal advice during his administration.
Before assuming command, on December 7, on the other side of the border, the Bolivian Road Administration reported that the construction of a road in La Paz that would connect with the port of Ilo (Moquegua), as part of the project of the Bioceanic Integration Railway Corridor, was completed. That same day, Aduviri and Zenon Cuevas, elected governor of Moquegua, arrived to Bolivia to meet with Morales and show his interest in buying gas and telephone services.
DATA
- On January 26, the Summit of the People's Leaders will be held in Huancayo, which will bring together the governor of Junin, Vladimir Cerron; Gregorio Santos, former governor of Cajamarca; Veronika Mendoza, leader of New Peru; and Walter Aduviri.
- Lithium reserves in Puno are larger than those of Bolivia and Argentina, the main exporters of the substance in the world. Peruvian is high quality lithium, according to experts.