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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1977
Page 7
diplomat to Peru
helps ease tension
between countries
United Press International
LIMA, Peru — On the plane
bringing Mrs. Rosalynn Carter to
Peru during her recent South
American trip, United States offi
cials said flatly that American rela
tions with Peru were “the best in
the last eight years.”
Local officials and diplomats
agreed that Peru, whose military
government was long considered a
thron in Washington’s side, is get
ting along famously with the United
States these days. They give a large
share of the credit to career diplomat
Robert W. Dean, who left Peru in
mid-June following a three-year,
two month tour of duty.
Dean, 57, will spend next year as
diplomat in residence at Texas
Christian University in Fort Worth,
Tex. Shortly before his departure he
discussed some of the reasons for
the improved relations.
Dean arrived when Peru was in
the sixth year of leftist military gov
ernment under then President Gen.
Juan Velasco.
Velasco forced through a sweep
ing land reform program, required
industrialists to share ownership of
their businesses with the workers
and nationalized enormous prop
erties owned by foreign corpora
tions, many of them American.
According to Dean, these reforms
were inevitable.
“Most people are agreed that
something had to be done, and if it
wasn’t done by the people who
came in, it would have been done
by somebody else. Distribution of
land, income and power was so
skewed that it tended to build up
economic and social pressures, with
all their political overtones,” he
said.
In August, 1975, Gen. Francisco
Morales Bermudez replaced Vel
asco as president in a swift coup
without a bullet fired. He promised
that the self-styled “Peruvian Revo
lution of the Armed Forces” would
continue.
It did, but in a “second phase.”
“In the second phase, the major
emphasis seems to be to correct
what the Peruvians themselves had
decided were excesses of the first
phase,” Dean said. “Some people
would interpret the refinements as
less revolution and more prag
matism, to calm some of the fears in
the minds of international investors,
and above all, domestic investors.
“The agrarian reform coincided
with a significant decrease in the
rate of growth in the agricultural
sector. With the population growth
of three per cent per year, there was
a net loss of food availability.”
“This decline has now been re
versed,” Dean said, largely because
.owners of middle-sized farms no
longer fear expropriation. In the in
dustrial area, the government has
converted the controversial
worker-ownership plan to a simple
profit sharing scheme.
In the meantime, the diplomatic
problems between the United
States and Peru, “mostly in the ex
propriation area, have been solved,
by dint of patient and protracted
negotiations, with the help of excel
lent teams that Washington sent
us,” Dean said.
He is optimistic on Peru’s future.
The current acute financial crisis is
“hopefully temporary: this country
is an absolute treasure trove of re
sources, especially in the mining
and minerals field.”
The promise made by Morales
Bermudez to call general elections
in 1980 is *‘a logical corollary to the
openings being made in the eco
nomic field.”
While Velasco’s expropriation of
the major newspapers under a plan
to turn them over to organized so
cial sectors “does not fit our concept
of traditional freedom of the press.
Peru is not a human rights country
in the problem sense; philosophi
cally this government wants to help
its citizens, not to abuse them,” he
said.
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