Peru's president disappoints his nation and his family

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NY Times August 4, 2012
He May Be Leader of Peru, but to Outspoken Kin, He’s Just a Disappointment
By WILLIAM NEUMAN

LIMA, Peru — Presidents everywhere are criticized by those they lead, 
but President Ollanta Humala of Peru may be unique in that some of his 
fiercest detractors are his own flesh and blood, including his brothers, 
sisters, cousins and, chief among them, his voluble father, Isaac.

“It’s a matter of deception,” the elder Mr. Humala said of his son’s 
first year in office. The father has loudly opposed his son’s support of 
the mining industry and a government crackdown on antimining protests 
that has left several people dead.

He has accused the government of violating the rights of another son, 
Antauro, who is imprisoned for leading a failed rebellion in 2005. And 
after a cabinet reshuffling last month, Isaac Humala offered this 
analysis of most of his son’s ministers: “They should be in jail.”

The president’s brother Ulises, the oldest of the seven Humala children, 
compared the family’s wranglings — “Humala vs. Humala” is a headline 
that needs no translation here — to the escapades in “Dallas.”

“To me, the Humala family is the Andean version of the Addams Family,” 
said Nelson Manrique, a sociologist who backed Mr. Humala for president 
but is now critical of his government. “The family gets together, and