[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 46 (Wednesday, April 12, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H2126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS PARAMOUNT TO OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND THOSE 
                      OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

  (Mr. McNULTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield to my friend, the 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford).
  Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I would just make the point that, whether Republican or 
Democrat, a theme that our country is built on is the idea of free and 
fair elections. And if what is going on in Peru right now is able to 
stand, then the Fujijmori government in Peru will be built on unfree 
and unfair elections.
  Indeed, a lot of controversy is going on right now about a young boy 
and whether he should or should not go back to Castro because of 
freedom. If we look at what is going on, again, in Peru, a cancer will 
start to grow that America should be no part of.
  So I would say that, if what stands, we need to look at stripping aid 
from the supplemental, we need to look at blocking aid with the drug 
war, we need to look at blocking access to international financial 
institutions. Because free and fair elections are paramount to our 
system of government and to governments throughout Central and South 
America.

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