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To: Dayuhan who wrote (80232)	5/30/2000 9:10:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I question why the State Dept. voices any opinion at all. It's obvious Toledo was their guy and they didn't get their way. Poor babies. Where does our meddling in other countries' business end? We have to draw a line somewhere. I spent the years 1965-68 in Peru, and while I was just a kid then, it strikes me now how absurd it is to project our democratic values on countries that are so backward. Lecturing people on democracy while they live in huts with dirt floors is astonishingly blind and arrogant. When Fujimori first came to power the Sendero Luminoso controlled whole regions of the countryside. We haven't heard much from them lately. I would have liked to have seen Mario Vargas Llosa win the election, but his candidacy was a little utopian. Absent utopia, Fujimori was the best choice for Peru at the time. They've come a long way under his leadership, 5 more years just may put them over top.