Everything we have of modern in Peru is due either to Manuel Pardo -
Balta - Malinowski
and Meiggs' (1860 - 1879) national industrial project, or to the Peruvian
Corporation of Santa, (1943 - 1974) CPS, inspired by Santiago
Antúnez de Mayolo, the Society of Engineers and the support of President
Manuel Prado to the North American model of FD Roosevelt.
In 193 - 1915, Antúnez proposed
the project for the Cañon del Pato Hydroelectric Power Plant, located in
Ancash, north of Lima, then developing a magnificent National
Electric Plan (1948). It took almost 30 years, until in 1943, for the C.H.
Cañon del Pato was the central project in the newly founded C.P.S., where
Antúnez was an advisor, located in the Santa river basin, current Ancash
region, modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority by FR. Roosevelt, and with the
support of the Inter-American Cooperative System, from the USA. Its center was
in Chimbote, a port that Henry Meiggs called in the 1870s the future
"Manchester of Peru".
The C.P.S. (1943 - 1974) included
projects such as:
• Chimbote Port, and urban
habilitation of the adjacent city;
• Modernization of the Chimbote -
Huallanca Railway,
• Iron exploitation in Marcona
(Ica, today Shoughang – Hierro Perú)
• Siderúrgica de Chimbote, (today
Siderperú)
• Chao Viru agricultural
irrigation project (today successfully completed as CHAVIMOCHIC)
• exploitation of coal,
• Production of synthetic
fertilizers.
The C.P.S. He proposed a heavy
industrialization of Peru, based on electrification, transportation, and
the steel industry, in a country with great mining wealth. This was later
complemented, in 1959, with the protectionist Industrial Promotion Law, under
the second government of the Americanist President Prado, and his ministers
Andres Dasso and Carlos Moreyra and Paz Soldán, although without the important
figure of the National Corporation for Industrial Development, that was in the
original project.
But in 1974, the C.P.S. could not
resist both the end of international cooperation (debt crisis) after the end of
the original Bretton Woods international financial system in 1972, and internal
sabotage. With the earthquakes of 1970 and 1974, Peru could not rebuild the
railway nor continue with the other projects, liquidating in 1974 the C.P.S.
But its developmental imprint had
already provided a model that Peru has always tried to continue, with severe
opposition from the IMF, WB and the Washington "Consensus", from 1990
to the present.
Antúnez de Mayolo always
recognized the roots of his proposals in the original nationalist project of
Pardo and Meiggs, destroyed by the British geopolitical war of 1879 - 1883
against Peru and Bolivia, and the transoceanic
nature of his energy and railway proposal.
Today, the field can be opened
with the current integration of Peru to the Chinese initiative of a Strip, a
Route, and with the world economic reorganization led by the 4 great powers:
USA, China, Russia and India, as it was proposed by Lyndon
LaRouche.
[In the image, in the center, the
projects of the 1948 Electric Plan, and then, from top left to the clockwise
direction, Siderúrgica de Chimbote, CH Cañón del Pato, Chimbote Port and Chimbote Huallanca Railroad (today
non-existent)]
04/26/20
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