More on Peru’s former guerrilla leader Guzmán

“The advocacy of Betrayal”

El Diario International, a Peruvian journal has joined in condemning Abimael Guzmán as a sell out to the armed struggle of the Communist Party of Peru (a Google translation which also retains some Spanish):

“Dr. Alfredo Crespo, a lawyer for Abimael Guzmán, in defense of this publication has said that the content of this book reaffirms the approach of his client regarding a proposed peace accord that Guzman made in 1993, and an "amnesty general for all who participated in the internal war "in other words means forgiveness and freedom for war criminals, including more than 200 general, paramilitaries, including Alberto Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos. Crespo ha dicho también, que Gonzalo, ha dado por terminado el “proceso histórico de la lucha armada”, y que ha pedido a sus seguidores, participar en las elecciones generales, y que para ello tienen que buscar sus propios candidatos electorales. Crespo has also said that Gonzalo has been terminated "historical process of armed struggle" and called on his followers to participate in general elections, and that it must seek its own election candidates. El abogado Alfredo Crespo, dijo, que su patrocinado rechaza al grupo guerrillero que sigue actuando en el valle del rió Apurimac y Ene ubicado en la selva alta conformado por tres departamentos Ayacucho, Cusco y Junín, de la zona oriental de las provincias de Huanta y la Mar. Parte del contenido de este libro, es una carta de arrepentimiento de Guzmán al cura Bambaren, donde le promete que “piensa dedicar el resto de su vida a luchar por la libertad de sus seguidores presos”. Alfredo Crespo's lawyer, said that his client rejected the guerrilla group that continues to act in the valley of the Apurimac and Ene river located in the high forest consists of three departments of Ayacucho, Cuzco and Junin, in the eastern provinces of Huanta and the Sea Some of the content of this book is a letter of repentance to cure Bambaren Guzman, where he promises that "plans to devote the rest of his life fighting for the freedom of his followers prisoners."

CORRUPTED SYSTEM APOLOGIA

Objetivamente el libro de Gonzalo sirve a los intereses del gobierno y sobre todo a las fuerzas armadas. Gonzalo's book objectively serves the interests of government and especially the armed forces. ¿Entonces por qué el gobierno reprime este libro?. So why does the government represses this book?. La razón principal para que el gobierno y las clases políticas sientan temor de la palabra de Gonzalo, tiene que ver con los propósitos de borrar de la memoria histórica del país, dos décadas de guerra interna. The main reason for the government and the political classes are afraid of the word of Gonzalo, has to do with the purpose of erasing the country's historical memory, two decades of civil war. Borrar sobre todo los conceptos de guerra popular, violencia revolucionaria, y lucha armada para destruir al Estado y liquidar el sistema de explotación. Delete especially the concepts of popular war, revolutionary violence and armed struggle to destroy the State and settle the operating system. Gonzalo, no hay ninguna duda, es actualmente un renegado de la revolución, y cualquiera de sus actos sirve a los grupos de poder y al gobierno. Gonzalo, no doubt, is actually a renegade of the revolution, and any of their actions serve the power groups and the government. Su conducta nada tiene que ver con la lucha de clases ni la lucha por el socialismo. Their behavior has nothing to do with class struggle or the struggle for socialism. Pero no se puede olvidar que este mismo Gonzalo, ahora con 75 años a cuesta y de figura lastimera, fue desde 1980 hasta inicios de la década del 90, el jefe de la guerra popular en Perú, que al margen de sus errores, desviaciones ideológicas políticas, y conducta antimarxista, llegó a movilizar a miles de campesinos y trabajadores bajo las banderas de la lucha por el socialismo y el comunismo. But you can not forget that this same Gonzalo, now with 75 years of hard and pitiful figure was from 1980 until the early 90s, the head of the People's War in Peru, which apart from their mistakes, ideological deviations policies, and conduct anti-Marxist, came to mobilize thousands of peasants and workers under the banner of the struggle for socialism and communism. Para un gobierno, lumpen y corrompido como el que dirige Alan García, cualquier recuerdo de una época donde las masas pobres se armaron de fusiles y bombas para cambiar la situación del país, es un recuerdo monstruoso y resulta una pesadilla.”

Perhaps even more damning is:

“Past experience (historical memory) must be revived, updated in the minds of millions of Peruvians, and this should serve for the next fight for state political power, not committed serious mistakes or fall into ideological messianism as the counter Abimael Guzmán who applied during his reign in Sendero Luminoso.

La lucha por el poder en Perú, requiere una organización política, no personalizada, sino mas bien revolucionaria, exenta de personalismos estupidos y reaccionarios. The struggle for power in Peru, requires a political organization, not personalized, but rather revolutionary, free from personalities stupid and reactionary. El pueblo, no necesita salvadores ni “padres revolucionarios” como Gonzalo que se venden por un plato de lentejas. The people do not need saviors or "revolutionary fathers" as Gonzalo sold for a mess of pottage.”