Question: Good day, Mr. LaRouche, I'm from Los Angeles. My question is, there's a lot of activity in Latin America, right now, with regard to economic policies. What do you see--how do you analyze Toledo's government in Peru? What intentions he might have? And would it be a good idea to "clone" Operation Juarez, and how can this help your campaign, and save the U.S. economy?

LaRouche: First of all, Operation Juarez never stopped! We have our dear friend, the former President of Mexico, Lopez Portillo, and we're still committed to it. [laughing]

So, it never stopped! He made an important speech in the United Nations on that subject-area. It's an historic speech by him, and it's a speech which is still alive--and he's still alive. And, I'm still alive.

In the case of Toledo: Toledo's a disaster. He's a U.S.--a coup was run against the Fujimori government. Now, the coup was run for two reasons: The coup against Fujimori was run by the United States government, during Clinton's second term of office. It was run, for two reasons. First of all, the backer of the coup, was George Soros, and George Soros is involved in drug trafficking. He's a backer of drug trafficking. And the Fujimori government, the Peruvian government, was the most efficient opponent and resister of drug trafficking in all of the Americas. More effective than the United States! Secondly, that Fujimori had made a speech in Brazil, not in the context of the Mercosur [the Common Market of the South] exactly, but in spirit. And that speech, which involved the proposal of cooperation between Peru and Brazil, and adjoining nations, was the reason--political reason, general reason--why the coup was put through, and Fujimori was thrown out; and Toledo, who is nothing, but a totally owned U.S. political figure, was put in.

Now, the institutions of Peru are still there, in [name inaud], and Peru has a very strong tradition. It's like Mexico: Mexico has a very strong tradition, the patriotic tradition of Mexico, which is what the PRI used to represent, and still does in some large degree. There are other elements, of course, as opposed to the Maximilian, which is the other faction; or the so-called "synarchists" in Central and South America.

We have problems throughout the hemisphere, in that part of the hemisphere. Colombia: the drug wars, the FARC wars; Venezuela is in a crisis; Argentina is being ground up and destroyed, by the international bankers--mass murder, by the IMF and World Bank. The IMF and World Bank are committing genocide against the people of Argentina. Brazil is interesting, and Lula is an interesting person. I'm not one of his supporters, but he's acting somewhat like the President of Brazil, as opposed to what some thought he might do, and he's done a few useful things.

So, I'm hopeful about the Americas, but I'm also have a sense of my own personal responsibility, because of my influence in various ways, in various parts of the world, including the United States, that I take it as my personal responsibility, to try to save the states of Central and South America. And I don't think it will happen, unless I do it. They need help. And I'm the one that has to provide a key margin of help, and I'm doing it.

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