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Forced Sterilizations In Peru – Paid For By US Taxpayers
In countries under heavy US influence or occupation, the US government has a habit of pushing political programs that would be too unpopular to implement in the United States.
In Japan, for example, the US occupation after World War II offered an opportunity for American bureaucrats to push abortion policies they couldn’t win support for in the United States.
As part of a larger agenda of pushing a Japan-style New Deal and other US-styled interventionist policies, the US occupiers were more than happy to help the new Japanese regime impose a eugenics-friendly program designed to combat alleged overpopulation. According to Holly Coutts:
The centralized government in Japan, coupled with a political culture infused with socialist ideas and traditional loyalty to a strict hierarchy, allowed policymakers to create a far-reaching program. This same type of program was impossible in the US and South Korea [another country under heavy US influence] as it would not have corresponded to their public ideas…
Japan would become the first country to legalize abortion for socioeconomic reasons.
But, at least in these cases, women, for the most part, took part in these programs voluntarily – the aborted children, of course, were not consulted.
But consent on the part of the women apparently doesn’t trouble American policymakers when it comes to funding and supporting population-control policies in foreign countries.
Forced Sterilizations in Peru — Paid for by Americans
In recent months, mainstream media outlets have been highlighting the rarely-mentioned forced sterilizations that took place during the Alberto Fujimori years. Part of the renewed interest is due to the fact that Fujimori, who is 79-years-old, and back in prison after a failed attempt at a pardon, now faces charges for his part in the sterilization program. The program is said to have lead to the forced sterilization of over 200,000 women in the late 1990s.
Like many programs aimed at reducing fertility and population growth, the program was largely aimed at lower-income women and members of indigenous populations living in the Peruvian highlands.
And, as with so many government coups and policies of questionable morality found in Latin America, we find the hand of the US government. The National Catholic Register reported on Tuesday that the US Agency for International Development — the US’s primary foreign “aid” agency — had essentially taken control of the Peruvian national health system during the period of the sterilizations:
An unsettling aspect of the entire Peruvian campaign is the involvement of the U.S. government. The specific agencies that were involved in Peru’s sterilization campaign were the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the NIPPON Foundation (a Japanese nonprofit). It is known that UNFPA donated $10 million for the forced-sterilization campaign.
“An important document was published by E. Liagin with the title ‘USAID and Involuntary Sterilization in Peru,’ in which she analyzes the action[s] made between 1995 and 1997,” said Polo. “According to her, ‘the internal archives of USAID show that in 1993 the United States basically took charge of the national health system of Peru. … The bilateral accord of 1993 that put the United States in such advantageous position, known as Project 2000, was signed by the Peruvian and American authorities in September 1993 and was effective for seven years, ending in 2000. An examination of this document shows that USAID-PERU, the office in Lima of USAID, was in any conceivable form in control of the Peruvian health sector, before and during the years that the abuses took part.’”
In the case of Japan, Coutts notes that “Japan’s eugenic legacy caused [a focus] on abortion among the poor and inferior when dealing with their perceived population problem.”
It appears that Peru in the 1990s fell victim to similar sentiments.
International planners, of course, have long been notable for a belief that much of the world is overpopulated and that this problem must be “solved” with government action. USAID workers may have sensed an opportunity to partner with the Peruvian regime — which itself viewed the impoverished Indians in the Andean highlands as “problematic” — in efforts to implement a eugenics program in Peru. It’s not a coincidence that efforts at combating overpopulation usually end up targeting ethnic and socio-economic groups most lacking in both economic and legal resources.
Similar programs, of course, would face widespread opposition in the US. The brief history of eugenics here in the US is heavily tainted with a legacy of white-supremacist and anti-poor-people sentiments. Moreover, forced medical procedures are unpopular, as we can see even today in the ongoing opposition to mandatory vaccinations.
Nevertheless, forced sterilizations in the name of “improving” or shrinking the global population has long been an element of Progressive politics in the US as is well documented in Angela Franks’s 2005 book Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility.
In the US, though, objections arising from either religious beliefs or politically laissez-faire sentiments have led to problems with implementation in the US. But poor Indians in rural Peruvian villages are much easier targets, and USAID likely knew it. The end result was American taxpayers once again found themselves paying for government policies that they would never want implemented in their own communities.
The Peruvian case is especially horrific because so many of the sterilizations were forced. But, even if only subsidized or “encouraged,” programs of this sort are nothing more than government attempts at central planning of demographics.
This fact was emphasized by Ludwig von Mises who noted that population-control programs are, ultimately, attempts by government planners to determine who gets born and when. This motivation, Mises wrote, is not qualitatively different from what drove some of the world’s most horrific regimes in their own attempts at eugenic planning:
It is vain for the champions of eugenics to protest that they did not mean what the Nazis executed. Eugenics aims at placing some men, backed by the police power, in complete control of human reproduction. It suggests that the methods applied to domestic animals be applied to men. This is precisely what the Nazis tried to do. The only objection which a consistent eugenist can raise is that his own plan differs from that of the Nazi scholars and that he wants to rear another type of men than the Nazis. As every supporter of economic planning aims at the execution of his own plan only, so every advocate of eugenic planning aims at the execution of his own plan and wants himself to act as the breeder of human stock.
29 Comments on "Forced Sterilizations In Peru – Paid For By US Taxpayers"
JuanP on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 12:34 pm
What a bunch of nonsense!
Here we go again on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 12:49 pm
A couple worker on mine in the past had a nun as his sister. Was in Peru for decades…visited her there many times…life is very cheap and hard.
So, doubt they would spend money on this procedure.
Actually, if you weren’t born in a hospital without papers, like you didn’t exist.
Alice Friedemann on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:04 pm
Have anti-abortion wing-nut right economic fake news proponents taken over the editorial staff of peakoil.com? What a bunch of nonsense!
This wacked out “think” tank dismisses Limits to Growth. https://mises.org/library/other-y2k-problem
Anonymouse1 on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:12 pm
The guy that penned this nonsense, also recently wrote a farticle titled….
“Capitalism makes us more Humane”
No really.
So who is submitting garbage like this anyhow? I cant think of a jew, I mean few that would like to Clogg up PO.com with OT, irrelevant garbage screeds like this.
Could be any of the following of PO.coms creationist dumbass(s). Most likely candidates.
-Cloggraham*
-The exceptionalturd*
-Boatretard
-Anus
I would toss ‘The Narravtiveman in the list as well, but he doesnt get paid to peddle pro-natalist conspiracy nonsense. He only gets paid to peddle Rexxon Mobils nonsense.
*Or their sock puppets.
Anonymouse1 on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:19 pm
In their own words
>Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., with the blessing and aid of Margit von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt, and Ron Paul, the Institute seeks a free-market capitalist economy and a private-property order that rejects taxation, monetary debasement, and a coercive state monopoly of protective services.
Not surprisingly, the word ‘blessing’ appears often in their ‘Who we are’ section.
[Spoiler Alert] (They are bible-thumping morons)
This ‘Institute’ is located in ALABAMA, of all places. IE, the exceptionalturds and boatretards back yard.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:37 pm
One thing about you a-noise1 is nonsense. No wonder you made an effort at a comment with this article. You like nonses and in fact are nonsense. This is why it is likely you that are the one hijacking handles and creating socks. You are like the araonist that brings the police evidence in hopes of being the hero. What a disgusting low life.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:53 pm
The above comment is fake, I did not write that.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:57 pm
Sure sounds like me SLOB the MOB
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 2:55 pm
I did not write the two comments above. The comment to dumbass a-noise1 was mine.
Sissyfuss on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 2:58 pm
We need to lower the human population by 6 billion or so and soon. There is no humane way to do this so it will have to be done by inhumane processes. It will be Natures way, survival of the fittest which we no longer are.
Harquebus on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:47 pm
For what it is worth, I like to know what the idiots are saying and appreciate the variety of articles that are submitted to this site.
Sissyfuss.
I would put the figure at about a billion and don’t worry, it will be soon.
For the natural world on which, our survival depends, collapse can’t come soon enough.
Sissyfuss on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 4:15 pm
Harq, you’re saying if we lower the population to 6.7 billion everything will be hunky-dory? That would change nothing.
Harquebus on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 6:03 pm
Sissyfuss.
Ooops. My mistake. You said “by 6 billion”.
I agree. Down to one billion at least.
Cheers.
boney joe on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 8:54 pm
DavyTurd has gone off the deep, deep end….. a first for even him.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 9:25 pm
Sorry for the confusion…. I’ve been drinking a lot lately and blacking out and not always remembering what I wrote. I also woke up the other day in a park with a boy named pablo painting my toenails.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 9:37 pm
Fake post. I don’t drink.
The Pablo part is true though.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 11:14 pm
The Truth: I hijacked my own screen name in a shameless bid for sympathy.
Davy on Sun, 28th Oct 2018 4:01 am
Not that it matters much but the comments after 1:37 were not me.
Davy on Sun, 28th Oct 2018 4:42 am
Not that it matters much but all of the above comments are mine, EXCEPT the one directly above at 4:01.
Davy on Sun, 28th Oct 2018 4:55 am
My opinion on population is we are probably alright at where we are for a few decades but surely no more. Any more just means less time before a reckoning. This also means a likely destroyed climate stability leading inevitably to a much lower population. I don’t know what to think on climate. Will we see a hot house or might we just see much less stability? I don’t think anyone knows for sure but what we do know is it does not look good scientifically when we review climate history. The speed at which we are introducing carbon along with changes to the web of life is too dramatic for a happy ending.
Looking out longer term it is my opinion that around 1-2BIL people is a proper population of a human population living a low carbon existence with a low foot print. This type of living with wise cultures existing together somehow in cooperation with less competition. Yet, competition is vital because nature is in competition. Life is in a fight for survival within a changing planet so human transcendence from conflict and competition is likely not in the cards. The key is wisdom to control intelligence and control our base emotions. All this is a tall order when you also see we are competing with the planet to survive its changes. Making the right decisions in tradeoffs makes all this a moving target.
I feel humans should embrace nature and its web of life and this means significantly departing the techno world we live in today. It is more than that because earlier civilizations had a lower foot print and their civilization still failed but they didn’t take down the planet like we are. Civilizations died and were reborn which is how the web of life operates. Our techno intelligence has destroyed stable climate and is causing an extinction which is also affecting climate. So in this regards we can say this civilization and life system we are in now is wrong. The right way is not us so at least we have one example to avoid.
That said it is too late for the bountiful ecosystem post the last glaciation that developed. Something new is coming and this likely means 1BIL people or less living in much less affluent lifestyles. This does not mean we cannot have an adapted spiritually with wise intelligence. I doubt this is possible in perpetuity except in some locations. Many of the right variables have to come together to support intelligence. One of these variables is a critical mass of intelligent people with some specialization to allow different tasks resulting in some knowledge, technology, and the maintenance of all that. Keeping populations at the right level that is not too high or too low is what is needed to hit that optimum level of intelligence but with a wise human footprint.
In the end maybe intelligence is an evolutionary dead-end or a force of evolution as the disruptive variable that ensures succession of life. We know enough about ecosystems and the evolution of life now to know succession is a strategy of the web of life that allows it to adapt to a changing planet. It is about a system in cycles so this then point to strategies of intelligence and resulting lifestyles that a civilization must emulate. Look at life and look at the planet to see how to live. Keep it simple and robust and embrace change both destructive and constructive. The fact that intelligence may have failed in our case then says maybe intelligence’s calling is to do what we are doing. Who can say there is not a reason for cancer? Are intelligent humans life’s cancer?
This is all crying over spilled milk for us modern humans but it does point to a direction for us humans now that we should be embracing. We should be embracing adaptation and mitigation instead of blind growth in a quest for more affluence. We can adapt and mitigate within an effort to support and heal nature that will allow better survival. Instead we are digging the hole deeper. Nobody wants to downsize is the problem. We have a taste affluence and like it. No, we are never getting back to what was but we can salvage what is. 1BIL people or less is part of this strategy so less population is a prerequisite but also less affluence. What we have now we are stuck with for at least a generation because the math says without a horrible die down we will have to have on average 200MIL deaths over births for many decades to get back down to 1-2BIL where we should be. In 1930 we had around 2BIL people which was not too bad. We had 1BIL somewhere between 1700-1800. I think this is a benchmark for population.
Davy on Sun, 28th Oct 2018 4:56 am
There fake Davy tell them that is not me LOL.
Theedrich on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 1:12 am
Yup. We need lots more 60-IQ people.
Anonymouse1 on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 1:49 am
No need to worry there Thee, PO.com has got you covered for all your 60 IQ bracket needs.
So many dumbass(s) to choose from, and all under one roof. In no particular order (of dumbass).
-Marmico
-Boatretard
-‘The narrativeman’
-Cloggraham. Anyone that needs to told sentient wind-turbines do not exist, or believes batteries to be energy sources is solidly in the 60-IQ bracket no matter how ‘knowledgeable’ he likes to think of himself.)
And of course, no list of 60IQ’ers would be complete without our very own dumbass-in-chief,
-The exceptionalturd.
See Theedrich, cant swing a cat here without hitting a shit-load of 60ish IQ’ers. It’s that easy.
Cloggie on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 3:29 am
Africans like mouse1, pontificating about IQ, always a risky enterprise:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_858307
https://goo.gl/images/e72WkL
Ouch!
Anonymouse1 on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 5:17 am
Sorry, you are correct, the only rightful place for me is on a cotton plantation somewhere in the Indies.
However, instead I have decided to join Boko Haram in Nigeria and join my “progressive” bruvas!
Its a brave new world!
I might even pay back some of our debt and take a spick and a jew with me.
Let Freedom Ring on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 6:23 am
tiny url says: The bombs were “false flags” planted by liberals- where have we heard this before?????
TRUMP BLAMES VICTIMS- that didn’t take long
The question on Wednesday was not whether Donald Trump would cover for or encourage the domestic terrorist who has been sending bombs to frequent targets of Trump ire, ranging from CNN to Barack Obama to Robert De Niro. Trump is a malignant narcissist who instinctively sides with anyone he thinks admires him, and this bomber clearly seems to be a fan. Plus, as the past couple of weeks have demonstrated — Trump has issued reluctant condemnations of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, while obviously trying to find some way to protect the Saudi crown prince from being held accountable — Trump won’t draw the line at murder, when it comes to winking at behavior that he perceives as beneficial to himself.
Sadly, the only real question was how: What line would Trump pursue in order to minimize the seriousness of this situation and how far would he go in signaling approval to the terrorist or terrorists who are sending or planting that these devices? Would he run with a conspiracy theory that was swiftly gaining traction with the likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, holding that the bombs were “false flags” planted by liberals?
La Nación (translated)
No tiny url Davy fringe sources read by no more than 100 MAGA supporters.
Free Speech Message Board on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 9:32 am
How can Americans sleep at night while the USA is collapsing?
Soros, Obama, Clinton, and Trump all support endless wars, debt, and tyranny. What’s the difference?
Has Trump opposed trade wars, starting wars with Iran, Mexico, China, Russia, and North Korea, driving up the debt, ending minimum wages, opening concentration camps, banning free speech, religious freedom, freedom from warrantless searches, freedom from torture, security cameras, license plate readers, checkpoints, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, curfews, gun bans, NSA wiretapping, the end to the right to silence, searches without warrants, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, IMBRA, private prison quotas, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, 3 strikes laws, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, TSA groping, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, police militarization, and Jade Helm?
Has Trump arrested the bankers, decreased taxes, kicked out the illegal aliens, ended the Fed, ended the wars, ended welfare, ended Obamacare, and restored the Bill of Rights?
Trump doesn’t work for you. He works for the elites.
The time for supporting Trump has ended and the time for buying gold, guns, and food has arrived.
Wake up. Think. Spread the word. Dark times are coming.
Cloggie on Mon, 29th Oct 2018 1:52 pm
I only call individuals ‘Africans’ when they keep pointing out the obvious, namely, what a troll and dumbass I am. In truth, I have no idea what I am talking about, either in technical matters, or on the supposed ethnicity of anyone here. Look at me, I tell anyone who will listen that I am tall, perfectly proportioned blue-eye, blond-haired Aryan jew-baiter.. I know Davy believes me because he sends me pictures of his junk non-stop. That really raises my temperature, but in a good way. I also think Alex Jones is a complete dreamboat. I love his triple-chins. All us pretend Aryans do.
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