Bulletin
on the 15 TFPs,
Vol. I – No. 8 – 1988,
Pleasantville
,
N.Y.,
page 5
Clergy
Supports TFP Protest
In
face of the virtual nationalization of
Peru
's banking system, the Peruvian Tradition, Family and Property Nucleus
has campaigned to stem the gradual socialization of that Andean nation. Letters
supporting the TFP's position have come from over 130 ecclesiastical figures,
including three bishops.
Prior
to the approval of the law last fall, the Peruvian TFP published an appeal
to President Alan Garcia Perez in the nation's largest newspapers asking
that the bill be withdrawn. The two-page message titled A Frank and Respectful Statement
on the Peruvian Situation: the Apprehensions, Desires and Hopes of the
Country appeared in El
Comercio and Expreso, both in
Lima
[
3-9-1987
], as well as Diario
Correo of
Arequipa
[
6-9-1987
]. Copies were also
distributed during street campaigns in the country's major cities.
The
TFP warns that this nationalization effort represents "the absorption
of private functions by the state and the confiscation of private property,"
which would "mean the implanting of the collectivism foreseen by Marx
in yet one more sector of Peruvian life."
The
Peruvian TFP Nucleus received a letter of support for its initiative from
the Most Reverend Otoniel Alcedo, bishop emeritus of Ayacucho and the Most
Reverend Florencio Romani, bishop emeritus of Huancavelica. The TFP
appeal and the bishops' letter, signed by 129 priests, were published
together in the same newspapers.
Praising
the appeal's analysis, the signatories affirmed that it is not only the
banks that are being restricted, but all aspects of social life, "representing
the gradual installation of collectivism and totalitarianism."
A
similar letter arrived from the Most Reverend Oscar Alzamora R., who presented
doctrinal and moral implications of the nationalization move.