CALL ON LIMA MAYOR BARRANTES
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January 12, 1984
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SUBJ: CALL ON LIMA MAYOR BARRANTES
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2. CONGRESSMAN SOLARZ CALLED ON LIMA'S NEW MARXIST MAYOR,
ALFONSO BARRANTES, JANUARY 11, ACCOMPANIED BY CHARGE AND
POLCOUNS. IN COURSE OF WIDE RANGING CONVERSATION,
BARRANTES MADE FOLLOWING POINTS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-LIMA MUNICIPALITY, UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, INTENDS TO
ESTABLISH GOOD RELATIONS WITH U.S. AND OTHER DIPLOMATIC
MISSIONS. HE PLANS SHORTLY TO MAKE CONTACT WITH A NUMBER
OF U.S. MUNICIPALITIES WITH VIEW TO ESTABLISHING GREATER
AMOUNT OF COOPERATION ON "BASIS OF MUTUAL RESPECT" AND
CULTURAL EXCHANGES.
--MILITARY WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT PERMIT AN ELECTED
IU GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OFFICE IN 1985. INDEED, IF BOTH IU
AND APRA CANDIDATES REACH RUNOFF VOTE, MILITARY WILL
PROBABLY CUT OFF PROCESS AT THAT POINT. ONLY IN EVENT
ALAN GARCIA WING OF APRA PREVAILS INTERNALLY AND IS ABLE
TO ASSUAGE FEARS OF RULING CLASS DOES REALISTIC CHANCE
EXIST THAT A "GOLPE" CAN BE AVERTED. IN ANY CASE, IU
DOES NOT BELIEVE IT CAN WIN IN 1985. SITUATION IS NOT
YET RIPE. THE GOAL IS TO WIN IN 1990. FOR THIS REASON,
HE (BARRANTES) DOES NOT CURRENTLY INTEND TO BE A
CANDIDATE IN 1985 ELECTION. ONLY IF MASSIVE CROWDS
TURN OUT TO INSIST THAT HE RUN WOULD BE RESIGN FROM
CITY HALL AND MAKE THE RACE. FACT IS, BARRANTES SAID,
THAT NO OTHER IU CANDIDATE HAS HIS NATIONAL POLITICAL
PROJECTION AND APPEAL.
--HE BELIEVES DEEPLY IN POLITICAL PLURALISM AS MOST
SUITED TO HAMAN DIGNITY. IF IU ATTAINS POWER IN PERU
UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, MULTI PARTY SYSTEM AND BASIC
FREEDOMS WOULD NOT BE JEOPARDIZED. HE WOULD BE PREPARED
TO RELINQUISH POWER TO A FREELY ELECTED ADVERSARY
COMMITTED TO REPUDIATION OF SOCIAL CHANGES WROUGHT BY
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--AS A "MARIATEGUIST", HE COULD GUARANTEE THAT A
BARRANTES ADMINISTRATION WOULD BE SUBSERVIENT TO NO
FOREIGN POWER. HE EXPRESSED HIS PERSONAL DISAGREEMTNT
WITH SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN. REPRESSION OF
SOLIDARITY IN POLAND, AND BRUTALITY IN CAMBODIA.
HOWEVER. HE NOTED, IU WAS A POLITICAL FRONT COMPOSED
OF ALMOST EVERY CONCEIVABLE VARIATION OF MARXIST
THINKING AND IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO SPEAK
HONESTLY IN PUBLIC ON THESE ISSUES, BECAUSE TO DO SO
WOULD AGGRAVATE ALREADY DIFFICULT PROBLEM OF
MAINTAINING UNITY WITHIN FRONT. IU NEEDS TO
CONCENTRATE ON SITUATION IN PERU. FOREIGN POLICY
MATTERS TAKE BACK SEAT.
3. COMMENT: BARRANTES WAS GRACIOUS AND LOW KEY. WE
HAVE DIFFICULTY BELIEVING THAT HE DOES NOT HIMSELF
INTEND TO MAKE A RUN FOR PREISDENCY IN 1985, REGARDLESS
OF PERCEIVED MILITARY THREAT. IT WOULD, PERHAPS, BE
UNSEEMLY FOR HIM TO BE ADMITTING TO PRESIDENTIAL
ASPIRATIONS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER TAKING OVER AS
MAYOR . MASSIVE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS FOR PURPOSE OF
URGING HIM TO RUN WILL BE EASY TO ORGANIZE AT RIGHT
MOMENT. HOWEVER, IN SO FAR AS IT IS POSSIBLE TO JUDGE
A MAN AFTER SINGLE MEETING, WE BELIEVE HIS EXPRESSED
COMMITMENT TO PLURALISM IS SINCERE. THERE ARE
OTHERS IN IU, THOUGH, WHO DO NOT SHARE THIS COMMITMENT AND,
AS HAS HAPPENED IN POLITICAL SITUATIONS SLSEWHERE,
MOST RADICAL ELEMENTS COULD WELL PUSH MODERATES ASIDE IF
POLITICAL POWER IS ATTAINED.
OGDEN
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