AT THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD.
AT THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD.
MEMOIRS ON THE FUTURE.
RUSSIA - THAT FRIEND WHOM WAIT IN LATIN AMARIKE.
RAPHAEL GUSEJNOV,
At the person who for the first time has got to that part of Latin America,
Where Peru borders on Colombia, in memory certain symbols emerge.
If Peru, ruins of a mysterious city inkov Machu Pikchu,
Rock drawings in desert Naska. If Colombia - great
Marquez, green emeralds, the best in the world of coffee and the richest
Drug barons.
In a life all appears much more prosy. To examine
Forgotten city, it is necessary to acclimatise week to buy
Decent emerald - to pay some thousand dollars, that
To see Marquez - to fly to Spain where it happens often. And here
To communicate to the drug baron it has appeared business simple. Almost such
How to drink a cup indeed remarkable coffee.
But first of all it was necessary to reach Latin America. And in
It we were helped by parliamentary delegation of Russia led by
The chairman of the State Duma G.Seleznev which took aboard
Some journalists.
Unfortunately, Russians in these edges becomes ever less.
The trade missions are closed, correspondent's offices are curtailed, it is few scientists and
Experts. However there was a benevolent relation to us.
About it spoke, meeting G.Seleznev, the head of the Peruvian
The states president Alberto Fuhimori. In the past - the rector
Agricultural university and the party leader "п п я п п п п?п -90",
It has entered into a policy energetically. The main problems, with which
It had to face, have appeared catastrophic
Economic situation of the country and terrorism revelry. The beginnings
Fuhimori from measures unpopular. Leaning against army support, it
Has dispersed parliament, and in economy has entered rigid methods.
"Fuhishok" as its sharp fellows have named, has led to that were
All grants are cancelled, and the price for gasoline has risen in 100 times.
The rigid economy effort has helped stabilisation.
But main achievement Fuhimori name just struggle with
Terrorism. Several years ago the capital Peru reminded
City on the martial law: everywhere armoured cars, gloomy
The armed military men, searches and fear for own life.
Guerrilla movement was based on provinces, where
Grow up to the cook, and this merge has provided the total in the country
Terror. For some years have been killed more than 25 thousand representatives
The authorities. The judge whom the severe sentence pronounced to terrorists, not
Doubted, that for his life since that moment will not give also the broken
santimo.
The main thing that it was possible to make Fuhimori, is to break
The consciousness of the population to help people to be pulled out from a fear bog. Affairs
About terrorism considered tribunals, where witnesses and judges
Disappeared under a mask. All punishments have been toughened and is entered
Death penalty. However, it has been never applied.
That the local population has been armed has helped also and
Has united in self-defence groups. On the other hand, military
Parts, encountering resistance of terrorists, did not regret cartridges.
The result has appeared impressing enough. If terrorism and not
It is won definitively its roots are undermined.
Speaking about Fuhimori, it is necessary to know, how concern to it
To the predecessor - to Alan Garcia. Characterising it, my Peruvian
The interlocutor has hotly exclaimed: "the Thief!" Then, having thought, regretfully
Has added: "But the democrat. But to you it not to understand".
As he was mistaken... But it already other conversation.
Not so long ago influence of Russia in these edges was enough
The notable. Actively developed economic and a cultural contact,
We exchanged scientists and students, the Soviet fishermen were
Frequent visitors in ports of Peru. Echoes of those times we
Have felt at a meeting in the Russian cultural centre in Lima.
Graduates of the Soviet high schools with bitterness spoke about how it is important
To restore the lost. Many regretted that in Moscow
Have stopped to publish Russian classics and other literature on
The Spanish language.
Special conversation - about cooperation economic.
The Press-secretary of the chairman of the State Duma Michael Bleach actively
Called the journalists who some have thawn from remarkably warm
Weather and the dolphins lapping in pool on the ground floor of hotel,
To pay attention to Gennady Seleznev's meeting with the Peruvian
Businessmen. Later the same contacts have taken place in Colombia.
It is necessary to give due to the head of the Russian delegation. It
Acted in a role in which we have got used to see western
Politicians. Seleznev actively lobbied in advantage
Russia as equal in rights and very favourable trading partner.
Short course of lectures about modern economy of our country and it
Possibilities it has appeared not out of place.
As the ambassador of the Russian Federation in Colombia Ednan Agaev, in this country already has noticed
There is a new type of the businessman co-operating with
Russia. They are people who do not frighten neither distances, nor difficulties
And which, according to the ambassador, are adjusted on success.
When I have carelessly addressed to the Colombian journalist with
The request to acquaint me with the drug baron, that has instantly responded,
That there is nothing easier. Has there and then brought to me with taste of the dressed
kabalero, having presented to its deputy of parliament.
Kabalero was indeed good. An irreproachable suit from
Valentino, a silk shirt, the Hollywood smile, a cigar. And
Only a platinum ring with an emerald in size with a nut a little
Spoilt impression.
The reserved relation to big northern to the neighbour - the USA, love
To football, and also that called my interlocutor Raphael,
Have helped us to find common language. I asked it to tell about a problem
Drugs. But the senator has read to me short lecture about history
The countries, has shared the sights at a role of the USA on
The Latin American continent also has finished the review of games of the local
Football league. And already in the end of conversation, probably, having understood, that from
The journalist so it is simple to it not to get rid, it has friendly slapped me
On a shoulder also has exclaimed: "Dear Raphael! You think: after all all
Colombia are drugs. Unless our coffee, from which not
Evaporate caffeine, is not a drug? As well as our remarkable
High-mountainous air.
And unless it not a drug? "- and it has conspiratorially pushed me in
Side, showing to eyes on the young seductive Colombian,
Gracefully carrying to misters to deputies the next press releases.
In the latter case I could not disagree with the
The interlocutor, and our discussion on it has fruitfully come to the end.
Already later to me have told, that my new acquaintance, not having
The direct relation to drugs, successfully is engaged in washing up
Narco-dollars. For this purpose there is a whole network of trading structures
In Europe, the USA and Latin America through which millions flow
Dollars.
The problem of drugs not so is simple, as it can seem on
The first sight.
Narco-dollars stimulate and podpityvajut a national economy.
Drug barons aspire to invest the means in legal,
Respectable business. Children of many of them study in the prestigious
North American universities, are quite legislative and with
Disgust concern addicts.
Capital of Colombia Bogota, unlike the next
The Latin American cities, it is rich enough. In city boundaries not
It is visible "poor reserves". But it is a lot of skyscrapers,
5-stars hotels, expensive shops and restaurants.
But unlike the next Peru provinces of Colombia, where
It is grown up the cook, are under the control of drug barons, instead of
The central authorities. The most important opponent of narcobusinessmen is,
Undoubtedly, Americans.
For Americans drugs - one of priority international
Problems. After euphoria of 60th years, when the tolerant relation in the USA
To any heterodoxy including to sights at drugs, was
Extended, the society has come then to a sober estimation
Possible horrors of the narcofuture. If in 1996 on struggle with
By drugs it has been released from the state budget of the USA about 13 billion
Dollars by 1998 the sum has exceeded 15 billion These figures it is possible
To explain, if to present, that plantations cooks are fixed with
The help of space shooting, and routes of ocean courts
Are traced by military planes. Only in prisons of the largest
Cities of the USA of New York for narcocrimes serve time more than 70
Thousand persons.
The considerable part of these people has been hidden for a lattice with the help
Agents DEA - the governmental special service on struggle with
Drugs. About 4 thousand special agents are scattered on
To all world, it is a lot of them also in Peru and Colombia. DEA - one of
The most closed American special services, and in difference, say, from
CIA to it is authorised to conduct operatively-search job far for
Limits of the USA.
Colleagues from the "News", done last year the long
Travel from Moscow, cooks in the Colombian have reached a plantation
Provinces. In their opinion, more than 1 million peasants grow up in mountains
Only that can grow here. And this unpretentious plant
There are the cook, which here 30 years the governmental armies
And police try to destroy by means of the strict measures.
The most disturbing - traces of drug barons last years conduct in
The CIS, Russia. In 1997 ominous cargo in weight in 600 kg,
Addressed to Moscow, has been detained in Sevastopol. Colombians
Believe, that the total amount of the "Russian" narcocargoes reaches 40
Tons a year.
If to return to relations of the USA with the countries Latin
Americas influence of northern neighbour cannot be underestimated.
Americans traditionally consider both countries as the "a back court yard",
Which can be operated from Washington. The relation of Peruvians and
Colombians to it double. On the one hand, to go to the USA,
To be learnt there, to marry and open business - dream, to which many
Aspire. With another as it happens often, rich and
Vainglorious the neighbour, not very reckoning with yours
Interests, calls not only envy, but also irritation.
The new building of embassy of the USA is constructed on suburb of Bogota, that
Speaks safety reasons. A gloomy grey construction
Reminds prison, and is here to diplomats, apparently,
Unsweetened. In days of our stay in this country the local
The TV has shown, how Zhirinovsky's people stone
Embassy of the USA in Russia. This information has met at Colombians
Revival.
The present president of Colombia Andres Pastrana has been led
The authorities the circles connected with the American capital. That at once
It was reflected in its status. Yet minul year from the date of its election,
And it already has been twice accepted in the USA with all honours. Impresses and
The size of the financial help rendered to Colombia from the USA, -
2,5 billion dollars.
Whether means it, that Latin America - lost for Russia
Continent? Certainly, no. As it is paradoxical, but, at all
Being the big admirers Russia much of my interlocutors
Regretted for our leaving from this continent after disintegration of the USSR.
Too big strengthening of a role of the USA to many politicians and military men,
Which continue to play here traditionally influential role, not
On customs. In Latin America are convinced of importance of the powerful
Counterbalance of the USA.
Despite long-term cooperation with the USA, military men and
Policemen in both countries with the big interest work with
Company "Rosvooruzheniye". How actively work
Representatives of this company in Peru and Colombia, it are than
To be engaged. By the way, in conversation with the Russian deputies the president
Peru A.Fuhimori yours faithfully has responded about the Russian helicopters.
The former prime minister of the same country trades today п п -17 and with
Admiration speaks about these cars.
... About ten Years ago the film became one of world sensations
German researcher Hejnikena "Memoirs on the future". One
From the most interesting plots which have shaken not spoilt sensations
The Soviet people, there were the shots which have been removed in the Peruvian desert Naska.
Ancient drawings of an unknown origin, indiscernible from the earth,
From height of the bird's flight appeared surprisingly correct
Geometrical figures.
Today, from height of 15 years when we began to recollect that is
Such continent - Latin America, becomes clear: interests
Russia here are quite real and perceived.
Soviet Union left from here, shaken with the internal
Contradictions, having lost in long-term struggle for building
"The light communistic future". Russia can return
Here the strong and responsible friend aspiring not, that
To impose the way of development, and to equal mutually advantageous
To relations.
Us here, it would be desirable to believe, wait.
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