Nuevo Peru: Yankees go home! (updated)

We hereby share an article published by Nuevo Peru.

We denounce and condemn the largest military intervention by Yankee imperialism in our country:

For the APEC summit [Editor’s note: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation], which will be held in Peru from November 4 to 24, a force of “600 US soldiers will provide support to the Police and Armed Forces of Peru during the APEC 2024 forum.

The US contingent will include Black Hawk helicopters, AWACS aircraft and tankers, Air Force One and others”. According to the Ministry of Defense itself, they “will be able to enter Peru in the next few days after the Peruvian Congress approved the request sent to it this week by the government of Dina Boluarte” (the Congress itself reported). As we know, these military forces are under the Southern Command of the armed forces of Yankee imperialism.

This is one more act of surrender and expresses the genocidal, fascist and traitorous character of the government of Dina Boluarte, the congress, armed forces and other civil and military components of the old Peruvian State, a big landlord-bureaucratic State at the service of imperialism, mainly Yankee. With this act, Yankee imperialism reaffirms its strategic military position in Peru and Latin America for its war of aggression against our peoples. It is an important step in the greater military expansion and control of Yankee imperialism in our country and the continent.

The Yankee military presence will be to command and strengthen the military operations in the territory of Peru itself with its powerful deployment, subordinating its civil authorities, its military and police forces in the announced operation; it cannot be any other way, to maintain the contrary is to believe the story, that the military presence of Yankee imperialism, the sole hegemonic world superpower, is to provide help and depend on the will of the “assisted” country. It is necessary to keep this in mind in order to analyze the situations that occur in other scenarios, such as, for example, in the Greater Middle East.

Contrary to all the official statements of the representatives of the current fascist, genocidal and traitorous government of Dina Boluarte and of the congress that supports her, the true nature of the requested and approved entry of more Yankee troops into the national territory is treason and selling out of the interests of Peru, as a nation oppressed by imperialism. Peru as an oppressed nation is a nation in formation. This gets even more clear considering the deployment for the “security” operation that will cover a large part of the national territory of Peru, as can be read in the press release of the congress or “pigsty of Plaza Bolivar”:

“The Boluarte government sent an authorization to the parliament for the entry of American soldiers and their equipment, who will be deployed not only in Lima, but also in Pisco and Chiclayo, cities in the south and north of Peru, respectively, and who will remain in the country for three weeks.

The 600 American soldiers who will enter Peru are part of the US Army, Air Force and Marines. Two planes, four Blackhawk helicopters, rifles, machine guns, pistols, refueling trucks, military dogs and more are included in the authorization request.”

It is necessary to point out that during the government of the Cerrón family’s “Peru Libre” party, with its two presidents, first, the counterrevolutionary member of the “Rondas” [Editor’s note: counter-revolutionary patrolmen at the Peruvian countryside, very active during the People’s War] Pedro Castillo, and now the current genocidal Dina Boluarte, more Yankee soldiers have entered the country than in previous years; from Castillo to Boluarte, there are 1,500 Yankee imperialism soldiers who have entered the country in this period.

This is not just a short entry for a “security operation”, but an act of open and direct military presence with the exercise of military power on Peruvian territory, which passes from the country’s armed forces to the imperialist armed forces, which means putting the genocidal and lackey armed forces of the Peruvian State and its police and auxiliary forces under the direct command of the Yankee armed forces subjected to its Southern Command, which will come to fulfill security tasks. This means a greater expansion, control and military threat of Yankee imperialism against our people, the country and all other peoples and countries of South America. Specifically, regarding Peru, this powerful military displacement under the pretext of a “security operation within the framework of APEC” of Yankee imperialism is a demonstration of political and military submission of the old Peruvian State and its civil and military authorities, which expresses their greatest commitment and the direct military intervention of imperialism against the country.

We remind that on March 19, 2013, a new “agreement of political and military cooperation was formalized by Peru and the United States, in order to confront drug trafficking and terrorism. The agreement also includes the safe exploitation of uranium and humanitarian assistance.”

The entry of Yankee troops within the framework of APEC is part of the application of this agreement, an unequal treaty of submission (signed by the government of the genocidal Ollanta Humala) to the dictates of the imperialist master, which replaced the previous one that was signed by the military government of Odría. “The treaty, which began to be forged in 2012, was made official on March 19 in Washington through a memorandum that establishes the exchange of technology, training and technical advice between both countries.”, according to the Spanish newspaper El País, on March 27, 2013.

In compliance with this agreement, since January 2013, there have been legislative resolutions and resolutions by the Ministry of Defense, approving the entry of foreign military personnel, mainly North American. See that in many cases this foreign personnel is part of the “Training and Equipment” programs that the United States uses for its intervention in our countries.

The Yankee military forces, especially the elite ones or Special Operations Forces (US Special Operations forces (SOF)) have been intervening in the country against the People’s War for all these years. They feel the need to continue intervening in the country, now on the occasion of APEC, to try to prevent the general reorganization of the Communist Party of Peru, to crush with blood and fire the development of the struggles of our people, who are developing their powerful mobilizations against the greatest dispossession to which they are subjected by imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism and the big landlords.