Previniendo al actual segundo gobierno de Alan García de no caer en tentaciones de corrupción como las que venimos atestiguando recientemente, el 10 de abril del 2007 incluí en la XIII edición distribuida vía email el siguiente P1's Paragraph...
157. Al final de la exposición de Jorge del Castillo en el último almuerzo de AMCHAM alcancé una pregunta escrita que, dada la cortedad del tiempo, ya no pudo ser leída por el anfitrión Aldo Defilippi... Decía así... "Señor Primer Ministro, Usted seguramente concordará conmigo en que los políticos experimentados y novicios debemos estar conscientes de que gracias al maravilloso intrumento de las telecomunicaciones -que Dios ha puesto finalmente en nuestras manos- la corrupción se hace cada vez más difícil de cristalizar"...
Tal vez creyendo que se encontraban todavía en aquellos años 80 de limitadas posibilidades tecnológicas, los apristas han venido cayendo cual corderitos en la red de sus propias torpezas... Por el bien de nuestro país, los peruanos de buena voluntad que el 2006 apoyamos a Alan como a un proverbial "mal menor" esperamos una enmienda real e inmediata...
10/31/2008
# 67, on Obama's disservice to Florida and Colombia...
67. When I observe Barack Obama desperate to secure a win in Florida, I can not avoid to remember the disservice he did to the Sunshine State's economic interest by adamantly opposing the US Trade Promotion Agreement with Colombia... For instance his opposition was detrimental not only to Florida but also to the whole USA since every informed citizen knows e.g. that 40% of the US economic growth in 2007 came from exports...
Politically... I believe that instigated by surrogates of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, senator Obama preferred to side with the argument rooted on the killings since 1985 of labour advocates and not to acknowledge the huge improvements reached by president Alvaro Uribe, the best ally of the US in the region...
The Colombia case highlights the sad notion that Barack prefers to spread the wealth around instead building authentic conditions to create more...
Politically... I believe that instigated by surrogates of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, senator Obama preferred to side with the argument rooted on the killings since 1985 of labour advocates and not to acknowledge the huge improvements reached by president Alvaro Uribe, the best ally of the US in the region...
The Colombia case highlights the sad notion that Barack prefers to spread the wealth around instead building authentic conditions to create more...
Comment sent to The Wall Street Journal on Oct 30, 2008...
After reading the article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533149619882883.html
I did send following comment to The Wall Street Journal on October 30th, 2008...
As we see in Latin America nowadays, polls are subject to influence of money-laden campaigns... I expect John equalizing Barack over the weekend and much possibly winning on Tuesday...
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Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533149619882883.html
I did send following comment to The Wall Street Journal on October 30th, 2008...
As we see in Latin America nowadays, polls are subject to influence of money-laden campaigns... I expect John equalizing Barack over the weekend and much possibly winning on Tuesday...
More via www.omonte.org
Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
10/30/2008
11th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Oct 30, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same October 30th, 2008 1:51pm...
There is no need for a quiz to conclude that his millionary 30' TV Special will not do a big favor to Barack H. Obama Jr. since it reminded every attentive voter how and why he lied by opting out of public campaign finance...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same October 30th, 2008 1:51pm...
There is no need for a quiz to conclude that his millionary 30' TV Special will not do a big favor to Barack H. Obama Jr. since it reminded every attentive voter how and why he lied by opting out of public campaign finance...
More via www.omonte.org
— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
Comment sent to the London Times on Oct 27, 2008...
After reading the article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5014706.ece
I did send following comment to the London Times on October 27th, 2008...
Because we already gathered lots of bad experience with several nice talking candidates, if Barack H. Obama Jr. were running in Latin America he would have been quickly recognized as a charming demagogue...
Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5014706.ece
I did send following comment to the London Times on October 27th, 2008...
Because we already gathered lots of bad experience with several nice talking candidates, if Barack H. Obama Jr. were running in Latin America he would have been quickly recognized as a charming demagogue...
Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
Question for Barack Obama, suggested to FoxNews on Oct 25, 2008...
Senator...
Hugo Chavez was able to donate 100 million US dollars to secure the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia... How soon will you disclose all "individual" donations in order for the authorities to track the amount of money your campaign received from the Venezuelan dictator?...
We know, you were one of his men to block the free trade agreement with Colombia...
Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
10/29/2008
Article: I Love to Wear the US Flag Pin
May 3, 2008
Op-Ed Contribution
I Love to Wear the US Flag Pin
By PABLO OMONTE
LIMA
During the Democratic primaries I've learnt of occassions when Senator Obama showed he doesn't like much to wear the stars & stripes flag pin on his lapel.
Quite often when I'm in the USA, on several binational meetings in Lima, or even at some gatherings at home I love to wear it, being of course the Peruvian nationality the only one I have.
How does it come?
It probably began when in the early 70ties, as a kid, I used to admire a US family who lived at the next corner of my home in bucolic Huánuco, a small city 400 km north-eastern of Lima. The father was a LDS missionary and his wife and their several children were all nice but most importantly they were very kind to eachother and to everyone else. You could truly feel they were somehow closer to God, I thought, in contrast to mine - also a good looking family - but which in spite visiting the Catholic mass every Sunday and having many nuns and high ranked clericals as close relatives had our parents and us children involved in frequent disagreements in- and outdoors.
Soon, as nationalist and anti-American dictator Velasco turned rougher, many US missionaries left the country and so did that cherished North American family. I missed them everyday I went to school and passed by the emptied house at the neighboring corner.
During the military regime English classes became insignificant by law and I had to make an extra effort to learn a bit more of the language of those people I fell in love with. However, this was almost impossible even at the most renowned high-school in town. My poor English level notwithstanding I tried fervently to win a one-year scholarship for a US college with support of Rotarian friends of my father. The process offered hope but should take much longer than expected.
Meanwile, in the midst of the returning democracy and the weak Belaunde presidency it was high time for me to start college in Peru although not at UNI, the best Engineering University in Lima because it was plagued by strikes and the scaring influence of Shining Path.
The place to go was the Catholic University, where I couldn't grow comfortably because it didn't transpire the freedom I desired for an academic institution. Luckily, before one year went over I saw a placard announcing scholarships for engineering studies in Germany. Overcoming the initial opposition of my family - because of my young age - I applied, and became selected.
In August 1982 started my European journey.
Being pretty talkative and a charmeur since childhood, in the first years I just enjoyed to have a huge success finding friendship among young people. However, the more I grasped the Teutonic language and understood the nuances during conversations I found that some older people but mostly those in a powerful position disliked at the bottom of their hearts a bright newcomer like me and coincidentally also despised the USA.
As I became aware of this, I started to review my interest in building a possible future in Germany. However to completely decide about it I thought I had to learn more about how their elite think, and went over - besides coping with my electronics engineering studies - to diligently read the editorials of their leading journals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Spiegel, and Stern.
In 1988, one year before graduating as a Diplom Ingenieur, I arrived to the conclusion that the German elite as the bellwether of Europe couldn't shake off its anti-Americanism and that it would prefer to build upon their contempt for the so called Melting Pot instead enlighten their countrywomen and -men to reach to higher milestones based on a honestly cooperative relationship with the USA.
At the same time I began to spend money in buying those then expensive Time Magazine, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune, and sometimes National Review to learn more about the American ideals, mentality, and worldview with the permanent support of an Englisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch. My best hopes became indeed satisfied by reading lots of editorials and articles. Bill Safire, Art Buchwald, and Bill Buckley were among my favorites.
Meanwhile, as my way of thinking became well known among co-scholars, friends, and later colleagues and members of the Führungskader at Siemens in the early 90ties, I began to be treated as an enemy who deserved to get undermined.
Around 15 years have passed since I moved out and in the meantime I believe Germany has soften homemade sentiments of its arrogant 80ties towards America.
Concluding...
. My love for the USA which began at children's age, got only diamond-strong in Europe;
. Even if I relish to have found in wonderful Lima - for pundits a New York City of Latin America - the hub of my forthcoming activities, I keep dreaming of a united continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego as a key step to achieve a genuinely united World like Albert Einstein yearned for;
. I can not avoid to admonish the ignominious 'gda' expression disparaged by confused pastor Wright; and
. I want to heartedly extoll: God Bless America!!!
Op-Ed Contribution
I Love to Wear the US Flag Pin
By PABLO OMONTE
LIMA
During the Democratic primaries I've learnt of occassions when Senator Obama showed he doesn't like much to wear the stars & stripes flag pin on his lapel.
Quite often when I'm in the USA, on several binational meetings in Lima, or even at some gatherings at home I love to wear it, being of course the Peruvian nationality the only one I have.
How does it come?
It probably began when in the early 70ties, as a kid, I used to admire a US family who lived at the next corner of my home in bucolic Huánuco, a small city 400 km north-eastern of Lima. The father was a LDS missionary and his wife and their several children were all nice but most importantly they were very kind to eachother and to everyone else. You could truly feel they were somehow closer to God, I thought, in contrast to mine - also a good looking family - but which in spite visiting the Catholic mass every Sunday and having many nuns and high ranked clericals as close relatives had our parents and us children involved in frequent disagreements in- and outdoors.
Soon, as nationalist and anti-American dictator Velasco turned rougher, many US missionaries left the country and so did that cherished North American family. I missed them everyday I went to school and passed by the emptied house at the neighboring corner.
During the military regime English classes became insignificant by law and I had to make an extra effort to learn a bit more of the language of those people I fell in love with. However, this was almost impossible even at the most renowned high-school in town. My poor English level notwithstanding I tried fervently to win a one-year scholarship for a US college with support of Rotarian friends of my father. The process offered hope but should take much longer than expected.
Meanwile, in the midst of the returning democracy and the weak Belaunde presidency it was high time for me to start college in Peru although not at UNI, the best Engineering University in Lima because it was plagued by strikes and the scaring influence of Shining Path.
The place to go was the Catholic University, where I couldn't grow comfortably because it didn't transpire the freedom I desired for an academic institution. Luckily, before one year went over I saw a placard announcing scholarships for engineering studies in Germany. Overcoming the initial opposition of my family - because of my young age - I applied, and became selected.
In August 1982 started my European journey.
Being pretty talkative and a charmeur since childhood, in the first years I just enjoyed to have a huge success finding friendship among young people. However, the more I grasped the Teutonic language and understood the nuances during conversations I found that some older people but mostly those in a powerful position disliked at the bottom of their hearts a bright newcomer like me and coincidentally also despised the USA.
As I became aware of this, I started to review my interest in building a possible future in Germany. However to completely decide about it I thought I had to learn more about how their elite think, and went over - besides coping with my electronics engineering studies - to diligently read the editorials of their leading journals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Spiegel, and Stern.
In 1988, one year before graduating as a Diplom Ingenieur, I arrived to the conclusion that the German elite as the bellwether of Europe couldn't shake off its anti-Americanism and that it would prefer to build upon their contempt for the so called Melting Pot instead enlighten their countrywomen and -men to reach to higher milestones based on a honestly cooperative relationship with the USA.
At the same time I began to spend money in buying those then expensive Time Magazine, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune, and sometimes National Review to learn more about the American ideals, mentality, and worldview with the permanent support of an Englisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch. My best hopes became indeed satisfied by reading lots of editorials and articles. Bill Safire, Art Buchwald, and Bill Buckley were among my favorites.
Meanwhile, as my way of thinking became well known among co-scholars, friends, and later colleagues and members of the Führungskader at Siemens in the early 90ties, I began to be treated as an enemy who deserved to get undermined.
Around 15 years have passed since I moved out and in the meantime I believe Germany has soften homemade sentiments of its arrogant 80ties towards America.
Concluding...
. My love for the USA which began at children's age, got only diamond-strong in Europe;
. Even if I relish to have found in wonderful Lima - for pundits a New York City of Latin America - the hub of my forthcoming activities, I keep dreaming of a united continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego as a key step to achieve a genuinely united World like Albert Einstein yearned for;
. I can not avoid to admonish the ignominious 'gda' expression disparaged by confused pastor Wright; and
. I want to heartedly extoll: God Bless America!!!
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