The relations between Chile and Peru have entered a new phase of tension following the apparent unmasking, in Lima, an officer of the Peruvian Air Force in name Victor Ariza, who, according to a report the government of Alan Garcia, was spying for an intelligence network monitored from Santiago.
The theme would be just an anecdote or a footnote in the history of relations between both countries but it was because the government decided to escalate the matter Lima, taking it to the headlines, the future summit of UNASUR and where they can, through a sustained media campaign, including interviews Wholesale Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde, and his defense minister, Rafael Rey.
At the same time, antiarmamentista Lima is promoting a campaign on the continent, to send ministers to various capitals in order to spread his idea of \u200b\u200ba "nonaggression pact" between Latin American countries, which would aim to reallocate resources now spent on weapons to fight poverty and inequality.
Commended goal, no doubt, but was critical because while the arms of Chile which is litigating in the Court in The Hague on the issue of maritime delimitation. So his pacifist crusade is not purely altruistic and selfless. Has a name, and its objective is to neutralize a very concrete threat, stirred by nationalist Rimac, who suspect that Chile can not ignore an eventual ruling against them and resort to arms to defend their position at all costs.
It certainly ask some questions. Was it proper for Santiago, as a first reaction to the incident, postulating that "Chile does not spy," thereby attempting to close the subject? I fear not, because the truth is that in the world of international relations is an accepted fact that espionage or intelligence part of the game. And a country that is deprived of that option, probably could even be accused of being irresponsible for refusing to have antennas that allow you to know what's happening in your neighborhood and around.
espionage, despite its bad press, or the idealization cheaper than it is in the James Bond films, contributes to a system of checks and mutual supervision among countries, which ultimately ends to ensure a balance, as it brings out intentions threatening. The delivery of the atomic bomb secrets U.S. by agents such as Klaus Fuchs to the Soviet Union, contributed, as paradoxical as it may sound, a balance of forces for a long time ensured world peace. And similarly, other examples.
The problem is not spying, but get caught ...
The problem is not spying, something they do all countries, as recognized by the Bolivian minister, who got a bit of sanity in the midst of this absurd comedy of errors. The downside is that getting caught, and once that happened, things do not end, as industry codes ordered en warnings " sotto voce," but in public complaints or on orders of explanation. What is not listed in any of the manuals of intelligence or "recontraespionaje," as the Super Agent 86.
Another question that has become clearer with the passage of time is as follows: the government pretended mess Alan Garcia's recent APEC summit in Singapore with his bombastic denunciation? Evidently not. That same Garcia was surprised by the leak of the news of the arrest the officer Ariza, because, as you said Garcia Belaunde, this report favored the flight abroad of other Peruvians involved in the case. And while the possibility of laying a trap to the alleged "control" Chilean Ariza, exposing them harder.
And here is where it is recalled that the President of Peru was temporarily in charge of Admiral Luis Giampetri, a retired admiral of past Fujimori, who holds the post of vice president and, therefore, takes the baton of command in the absence of Garcia, at the time that someone in high places of Peru, decided to "break" the issue of espionage and put them together to Michelle Bachelet and Alan García in serious trouble.
The lessons that emerge from all this are clear: there is "internal" policies that are put into play masked under the guise of foreign policy of the countries involved. What in the Peruvian case seems to be more evident than in the Chilean case. Considering that Chile is on the verge of a crucial presidential election, it seems that there are certain sectors in Peru who want to exercise the "right to vote in Chilean elections, trying to force a hysteric nationalist backlash.
Yet it would not have saved ammunition. Trying to President Bachelet of "Conchuda" in the headline of a tabloid newspaper, and then giving vague and confusing explanations semantics. And now waving the flag of a country spied on by the "jealous neighbor" (the words of President Alan Garcia, whose political program is basically emulate Chile, and from there, if possible, surpass).
The danger is that the escalation bombastic and offensive seems to have no end. Leo in the Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo "an interview with Peruvian analysts to explain the tension due to the high penetration of Chile in the Peruvian economy. Ingenious theory, no doubt. The owner of the box is this: "Chilean economic Invasion is fuel for bilateral tension." And in the main note, Garcia Belaunde recalled that Chile is the "fifth or sixth largest foreign investor in Peru." Before
absurd size, Chile should remember that Peru has not proceeded in the same way when intelligence has detected Lima actions (in the case discovered a short time ago, got the failed spy on the border, along with a "doing take this", but was not biggest question of the case).
It should perhaps also recall the methods by which the confession was started Peruvian suspected spies acting under the orders of Chile (on You Tube is hanging the interesting testimony of the alleged spy's daughter Julio Vargas Garayar also NCO the FAP, executed in 1979), to see if they are unsuited to any kind of legal action more or less civilized.
Anyway, why go ... And if you are bothered investments, missing again, it is only a matter of realizing it, so that capital in general, no country, take other courses healthier than Rimac.
After all, someone in Chile would think that if a country that today is weak, comparatively speaking, with a per capita income of $ 8 000 to 15 thousand of Chile, is allowed to speak with the insolence and aggressiveness with which Lima has spoken against its southern neighbor, what else would you expect from a hypothetical country stronger in the future that would have benefited from the naive investment of Chileans.
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