Ascension, Arcturians & the Multidimensional Being with Dr. S. Lie

EBTV on http://evolvingbeings.com/ presents Earth Changes - a look at present day shifts on our planet and within us. In this episode, host Evita Ochel speaks with Dr. Suzanne Lie, author, psychotherapist and channel, about Ascension, the Arcturian race, channelling, 11-11-11, portals, Mayan Calendar, human evolution, transformation and more.

Related Articles:

"Spiritual Logic" - Oct 15 2011 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) 
(Subjects: Benevolent Design, Channelling, Holy scriptures, Higher self, (Old) Souls, Universes, Big Bang, Galaxy/Solar system build for life, Astronomy, Life on Earth tried to start 5 times/ 5th time life started, Large Animals/No Humans,  Asteroid belt, 7 Sisters / 100.000 year ago Pleiadian Brothers and Sisters seeded Humans on earth, DNA, Humans Ascensiont with Pleiadian DNA, Lemuria (Hawaii), 21-12-2012, 26.000 years cycle, 1987 - Harmonic convergence (11:11), Shift of Human Consciousness, Gaia, The Humanization of God, 1991 Russia falls, 1994 started 36 years galactic window (Presession), Mid point on 21-12-2012, Lemuria (Hawaii) center of the Earth time,  Love (Mother & Child),  Religion, Higher self, Global Unity,..... etc.) - New !

"What's Going to Happen?" - Oct 19 2011 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) 
(Subjects: The Humanization of God,  Re-calibration, Shift of Human Consciousness, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), (Old) Souls, 21-12-2012, Gaia, Hawaii (Lemuria), All Dictators to fall, Old Politics, Old and New energy, Higher self, 1 - No fear, 2 - Compassion, 3 - Change Attitude (Expect positive outcome), 4 - Believe the Truth of DNA/Akashic records, 11:11, Master Christ, Reincarnation, Global Unity,..... etc.) - New !


"Concepts of Lightwork" - Oct 23 2011 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) 
(Subjects: 3D Dimension, The Humanization of God, (Old) Souls, Light workers, Compassion, Born for purpose, Enlightenment, 4D (Multi) Dimensions, Shift of Human Consciousness, Innate (Body)/Quantum/DNA, 1 - Intent is a Key, 2 - Benevolent Design / Gaia / Synchronicity, to become creator 3 - Guidance not in 4D / but by Intuition or flashes in (creative) mind, or channelling, Pleiadian Brothers and Sisters, Global Unity,..... etc.) - New !

Quantum Living begins 2012 – 30 Oct 2011 (a message from Kuthumi channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark)

The Nation of Humanity - 13 Sep 2011 (Channelled message from Metatron by Tyberonn in the UN building)

Anita Moorjani's Near Death Experience clears in 4 days, grade 4B lymphoma cancer

Also see http://batgap.com/inelia-benz/

My full name is Inelia del Pilar Ahumada Avila, and I'm also known as Inelia Benz.

I am here, as millions of others are, to raise the level of vibration of the planet. This has involved assisting lightworkers and lightwarriors in their path as well as exploring and investigating what the "dark side" is doing on the planet. I have also been developing and investigating tools and practices which are quick and effective in the raising of awareness and vibration of individuals and the planet. The journey was not without its mistakes, dangers and injuries, but has been worth it.

On January 2010, I received a request from "Source" to go public, which I have done. The first thing I did was to establish an information source at www.ascension101.com. This assignment has been growing steadily and at the same time, my "behind the scenes" work with other lightworkers and public figures continues.

Inelia's books: Interview With an Alien, The 13th Mage, Personal And Global Ascension 2012: Volume One

Interview recorded 10/30/2011

INELIA BENZ: the full interview - with Bill Ryan from Project Avalon

Castro’s daughter impressed by Dutch take on prostitution

RNW, 30 October 2011, by Anna Rosales       

     

 (Photo: RNW)

Praise indeed for the way prostitution is organised in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. The Cuban sexologist Mariela Castro Espín is pleasantly surprised by the facilities that exist for window prostitutes in the Dutch capital.

This is an entirely different message to the warnings issued by Amsterdam police and politicians about the human trafficking that goes on behind the scenes of the red-lit windows.

“Having seen all this, I can only say how impressed I am by how sex workers can go about their work in a dignified manner and command respect,” says Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba’s leader Raul Castro, after a tour through Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District.

Ms Castro listens closely to health workers and former prostitutes explaining how things are organised in Amsterdam. She is told that the local authorities offer health checks, that the rights of the prostitutes are protected as much as possible and that, since prostitution was legalised, the prostitutes have to pay taxes like everybody else.

Abuse

Meanwhile window prostitution is under attack. Shortly before Ms Castro’s visit, Lodewijk Asscher, the relevant city councillor, even went so far as to say that Holland should consider banning prostitution if the situation in Amsterdam’s Red Light District doesn’t improve rapidly now prostitution has been legalised. According to Mr Asscher, many sex workers are the victim of human traffickers.

“I understand why some people are suggesting that window prostitution should be stopped because the prostitutes are being abused. That they should be given the chance of a better life, of improving themselves. On the other hand, I also realise that ending window prostitution will create other, maybe much greater, problems for the people who have to earn a living that way,” says Ms Castro.

Sexual revolution

Mariela Castro Espín is in the Netherlands to give a lecture at the University of Amsterdam. In her capacity as director of CENESEX, a government organisation for sex education, she will explain Cuban policy on sexual matters.

What is the situation with regard to prostitution in Ms Castro's homeland? When her uncle Fidel Castro came to power on the island in 1959, there were approximately 100,000 prostitutes in Cuba. They were the victims of twofold exploitation: as women and as prostitutes.

“Then a law was introduced that made pimping a legal offence. A male or female sex worker is seen as a victim of exploitation.”

This still applies today: prostitution is not prohibited, but pimps are subject to prosecution. Since the hard-hitting economic crisis of the 1990s, an increasing number of prostitutes have begun working for themselves. They include men and women with a high level of education. Some are even graduates who have been unable to find suitable employment.

They can be found on the boulevard in Havana, relatively inconspicuous but willing to tag along to a club with live music, with the possibility of continuing the evening at a room in the neighbourhood.

Exchange

The principle is the same, but the circumstances are different, says Mariela Castro. Her main objective is to find alternative ways of dealing with prostitution and she is keen to exchange experiences. Whether in the Netherlands or Cuba, for her the most important thing is to be able to discuss the issue freely and to ensure that those who choose the profession can live healthier and more dignified lives.

While acknowledging that the Netherlands is a source of inspiration for Cuba, she also believes that Cuba has plenty to offer the Netherlands. One particularly promising field in this regard is sex change surgery. Mariela Castro’s visit to a Dutch transgender clinic may well form the basis for a scientific exchange between the two countries in this field.

Related Articles:

Cuba embraces Dutch-style sex education

Mariele Castro Espín, daughter of Cuban
President Raúl Castro

Cuba gay man and transgender woman to marry

Longest Gay Pride ever starts in Amsterdam

Groups of gays and lawyers struggle for legal recognition separate from state-supported organizations

Brazil ex-President Lula diagnosed with throat cancer

BBC News, 29 October 2011

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been diagnosed with throat cancer.

Lula left office after two terms in

2010 with record approval ratings

The 66-year-old has a tumour in his larynx, a statement from the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paulo said.

"After multiple investigations, initial chemotherapy will start in the next few days. The patient is well," the statement read.

Lula was elected Brazil's president in 2002, the country's first leftist leader in half a century.

He was re-elected for a second term in 2006, and left office in December 2010 with record approval ratings.

The Brazilian constitution prohibits a third presidential term.

Related Articles:

Brazil ex-president Lula's cancer chances 'very good'

Hugo Chavez cancer claim doctor flees Venezuela

Brazil is the latest country to get angry about corruption

Five ministers have been toppled by scandals since January, and thousands have taken part in anti-corruption protests 

guardian.co.uk, Tom Phillips in São Paulo, Thursday 27 October 2011

A student is overrun by a line of charging riot police during an anti-corruption
protest in Brasília. Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images

From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.

But Alcântara, one of the country's most powerful journalists, also stares out at the old Brazil; a place of political wheeler-dealing, kick-backs and endemic corruption that costs billions each year and continues to slow the rise of this South American giant.

As executive editor of the influential and divisive news weekly Veja, Alcântara believes it is his calling to stop the sleaze. "It is a civilisational clash. What kind of country do we want to be?" he said.

"The majority of people play by the rules, they work from sunrise to sunset and pay their taxes as much as they can. Yet another portion lives dangling off the state apparatus, living off deals with people who have the keys to the safe. We see [uncovering corruption] as our mission."

2011 will go down in Brazilian history as the year that Dilma Rousseff, its first female president, came to power. But it may also be remembered as the year in which public frustration over rampant political corruption finally boiled over.

Since Rousseff came to office in January, five ministers have been toppled by ethics or corruption scandals, the latest being Orlando Silva, the sports minister,who resigned on Wednesday after Veja alleged he was involved in a £14m corruption racket.

Nationwide protests, while timid compared to those in Chile or the Middle East, have brought tens of thousands to the streets to demand an end to the looting of public money.

With the word corruption on everyone's lips, the Brazilian media has played a lead role in unearthing the wrongdoings of some of the country's most powerful politicians. In June Rousseff's powerful chief-of-staff, Antonio Palocci, was forced to resign after the Folha de São Paulo newspaper revealed his personal fortune had grown 20-fold in a four-year period.

Three months later the same newspaper helped dethrone the country's tourism minister, Pedro Novais, 81, who had previously been accused of using public money to bankroll a late-night party inside a sex-motel called The Caribbean. Novais's bill at the motel – where rooms fitted with swimming pools, saunas and circular beds are rented for £35 for three hours – reportedly came to around £767.

Veja's reporting, meanwhile, has brought down the agriculture minister Wagner Rossi, accused of misusing public money, the transport minister, Alfredo Nascimento, with an expose detailing an alleged bribery scheme within his ministry, and this week the sports minister.

"[The politicians] all say: 'When I get a call from Veja it's because my life is about to get worse," Alcântara chuckled. "[But] it brings me no pleasure … I don't see it as a victory."

"It's not a campaign … but it is an obsession," added the 55-year-old editor, whose latest front page carried the headline Ten Reasons to Get Angry About Corruption. The inside story pointed out that with the R$85bn (£30bn) of public money siphoned off each year, the government could eradicate poverty, build 1.5m homes – or purchase 18m designer handbags.

Alcântara – whose magazine claims a weekly circulation of 1.2m and an estimated readership of between 6 and 10 million – admitted that most of Veja's corruption scoops originated from tipoffs from people often themselves implicated in the murky underbelly of Brazilian politics.

"We don't have a Delta Force. We have receptors," he said, pointing to the magazine's newsrooms in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and the political capital, Brasília, where 78 reporters were instructed to keep their eyes and ears open for signs of dodgy dealings, whether covering science, transport or the arts.

Untangling Veja's own politics from its anti-corruption crusade is complex.

The magazine is widely loathed by Brazil's left, who claim it is inherently biased against the ruling Workers' party and its allies, and pays undue attention to the peccadilloes of politicians from these parties, while brushing over those of its friends.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's first working-class president, enjoyed a particularly turbulent relationship with the magazine during his eight years in office. "Let's be frank, some of Veja's journalists deserve the Nobel prize for irresponsibility," Lula said in 2006, following a story claiming that he and his allies held secret overseas bank accounts. "Veja does not publish accusations. Veja publishes lies."

Alcântara has kinder words for Rousseff, Lula's successor, who has embarked upon what has been dubbed a "house cleaning", ejecting a total of six ministers during her 10 months in power.

"It seems to me that she is much more intolerant with corruption than [Lula]," he said. "Dilma, in both word and action, has shown much greater intolerance and a greater understanding of the disgrace that corruption is in this country. There now exists a strong awareness, and I think much of it is down to the president, that this kind of extortion is unacceptable."

Rousseff's stance against sleaze and the near constant media coverage has bolstered a wave of protests across Brazil.

"How is it that such a rich, large country has such high levels of poverty? One of the explanations without doubt is endemic, historic corruption," said Antônio Carlos Costa, head of the anti-violence NGO Rio de Paz during one recent event, which drew around 2,500 protesters.

"We are talking about something that links all the spheres of power. That goes from the narco-traffickers to the members of congress. It pollutes everything; it undermines all our relationships. The only way to combat this is with dedication and perseverance."

Natalia Lebeis, 23, had also turned out for the protest – dressed as a clown.

"People say Brazilians only take to the streets to watch football or for carnival," she said. "We are the voice of our nation. I think it's time for people to show their faces and speak out against corruption and impunity."

Alcântara, a one-time New York correspondent whose latest story was a three-page interview with Neil Young, looked to Paul McCartney to capture his feelings on Brazil's chances of winning its war on graft.

"It is a tug-of-war," he said, referring to the ex-Beatle's 1982 track. "A tug-of-war between those who want to take us back into the 19th century and those trying to pull us into the 21st century. I'm an optimist – I think the 21st century will win."

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez wins re-election

English.news.cn   2011-10-24

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez

greets supporters after voting in general

 elections in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, 

Sunday Oct. 23, 2011. (Francisco Munoz/AP)

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Sunday won re-election after a solid victory with at least 55 percent of the vote, the country's national television said.

Exit polls released earlier in the day gave the 58-year-old Fernandez a lead of at least 54 of 55 percent of the vote. Fernandez is the widow of Argentina's late former President Nestor Kirchner who died while still in office almost one year ago.

Polling stations closed at 6 p.m. local time (2100 GMT) and voting in Argentina's general elections were peaceful, the National Office f the Electoral Processes (NOEP) said.

Editor: Mu Xuequan

Hugo Chavez cancer claim doctor flees Venezuela

BBC News, 22 October 2011

Related Stories 

• Chavez to have Cuba cancer check
• Chavez cancer puts spotlight on Venezuela's health care
• Hugo Chavez denies health scare

A doctor who said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had only two years to live has fled the country saying he fears for his life.

Venezuela's President says he is free of cancer

Medical officials said police had visited Dr Salvador Navarrete's office after his comments were published last week.

The doctor said that President Chavez had a very aggressive form of cancer.

On Thursday, Mr Chavez returned from a medical check-up in Cuba saying he was cured.

Dr Navarrete treated Mr Chavez around 10 years ago and has stayed in touch with members of the president's family and medical team.

In an interview with a Mexican magazine, Milenio, published last Monday, Dr Navarrete said he had information from the family that the president was suffering from a serious form of cancer - a sarcoma - in his pelvis.

"I'm worried that the president and those around him do not know the full magnitude of his illness given it has been handled with complete secrecy," he said.

'Top marks'

The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Caracas says that that is in sharp contrast to the picture the president has painted of his illness.

Arriving back in Caracas on Thursday following a check-up with doctors in Cuba, Hugo Chavez said he had beaten cancer and that his body was free of malignant cells.

In an open letter published by Venezuelan newspapers on Friday, Dr Navarrete claimed that police had searched files and computers at his office and he had been forced to flee the country with his family to an undisclosed location.

There has been an enormous amount of speculation in Venezuela about Mr Chavez's illness since he announced in June that he was being treated for cancer.

He has released few details about his illness, fuelling speculation that it may be worse than officially stated.

But the 57-year-old president insists he is well enough to run in the 2012 elections and serve another six-year term.

Mr Chavez travelled to Cuba four months ago for surgery, and says he has had four cycles of chemotherapy.

"Everything went perfectly. I got top marks, 20 out of 20," he told reporters on returning to Venezuela on Thursday.

Mr Chavez has been in power since 1999, and has transformed Venezuela with sweeping nationalisations.

Last month, he denied US media reports that he had been rushed to hospital with kidney failure linked to his cancer treatment.

Doctors warn that patients must generally wait at least two years after treatment before they can be considered out of danger.

Related Articles:

Venezuela doctors reject Hugo Chavez dying claim

"The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

" .... Soon the one dictator will be gone, and the unification can begin.."

Anita Moorjani's Near Death Experience clears in 4 days, grade 4B lymphoma cancer

Chile students disrupt Senate meeting to press demands

BBC News, 21 October 2011

The occupation was the latest protest by university and high
school students

Related Stories 

• Chile students clash with police
• Deeper discontent

Dozens of Chilean students interrupted a meeting at the Senate headquarters in Santiago to press their call for a referendum on Chile's social problems.

The students broke in as lawmakers and the education minister were discussing next year's budget.

The protesters left several hours later after opposition lawmakers promised to introduce a bill calling for a referendum.

Students have been protesting for months to demand free public education.

The Senate's education committee had gathered to discuss the budget when dozens of young people, many of them high school students, burst into the room.

Three youths climbed on top of the committee table and unfurled a sign which read "Plebiscite now".

Some of the students, who were streaming their actions live on Twitter, then occupied the building for several hours.

Outside, police sealed off the entrance to the building with metal barriers to keep more protesters from entering.

They confronted a crowd of hundreds of students and parents outside who were carrying signs demanding "Free Education" and "Referendum Now".

Reform demands

Education Minister Felipe Bulnes and others taking part in the Senate committee meeting hurriedly left the building.

Protesters shouted and threw coins at Mr Bulnes.

The Senate president, Guido Girardi, who is a member of the opposition Party for Democracy, spoke to the protesters and promised they would not be dislodged by force by the police.

He has been critical of the government's handling of the students' protests.

The students have been boycotting classes and staging demonstrations for almost six months.

On Tuesday, police in Santiago used tear gas and water cannon in clashes with masked protesters who set up burning barricades and threw petrol bombs; 260 people were arrested.

The government said after these violent demonstrations that it would invoke an emergency security law to help quell student unrest - the most serious in Chile since 1990.

On Wednesday, students held another mass demonstration to press their demands.

Talks over education reform broke down this month and there is no sign of a resolution.

Indeed, positions appear to be hardening.

Student leaders are demanding wholesale reform of Chile's education system, which they say is unequal and under-funded, but they have condemned the violence.

They want the central government to take full control of education and increase spending on public schools and universities.

President Sebastian Pinera has responded by promising limited reforms and around $4bn (£2.6bn) in extra funding.

On Tuesday, he approved a law increasing subsidies for children from poor backgrounds attending private schools.

But he has categorically rejected calls for full state control and free education.

Interview with Eustace Mullins 2005

The Neo-Zionist Order - Who rules your rulers?

Most Americans would agree that there is something desperately wrong with the political and judicial system in the United States, but as many unsuspecting Americans point fingers at each other (Republicans and Democrats) what they don’t realize is that this suits the Zionist purpose.

This interview is with the man who exposed the rulers who dictate policies. They hand down these policies to our so called leaders to advance the Neo-Zionist plot for total control over world affairs. Only a clear picture of what’s going on behind the facade of this so called ‘war on terror’ can one truly understand that this is a ‘war of terror’ designed for killing people and destroying property to stir up conflict to advance their agenda.

Incredibly, the DC Zionist agents sent a huge American armada across the great seas to unleash a devastating military force against a people that never fired a shot at her, not even across her bow as they approached with their invading Christian army. As this invasion spreads throughout the Middle East and Asia, it will continue to be sold as a war on terror when in actuality it is a calculated plot.

As a few unsuspecting Jews, a lot of Christians and Muslims are led to the slaughter, the Neo-Zionist and their agents will continue to enslave and rob us of our national treasures and many will cheer their own demise.

Eustace Mullins was once labeled ‘the most dangerous man in America’ by war criminal Henry Kissinger. Mullins may be one of the most plagiarized authors in the world and has authored many books that are now hard to find. Although tens of thousand of copies have been printed, mysteriously many of them seem to disappear overnight.

Eustace Mullins, who died in February 2010, was one of America’s foremost historian/researchers exposing facts over the last 50+ years that everyone in the world should know. However, these facts have been furiously suppressed by Zionists and their Neo-Con agents and the results have been (and will continue to be) devastating for the world.

Mullins has been vilified by the Zionist powers that be for his supposed anti-Semitism, but as you contemplate the hard facts he has compiled, you see something much more important and frightening than some allegation about verbal insults. You see in Mullins’ voluminous scholarship a clear and terrifying picture of the forces that control the world, and don’t care a whit about real people.

In the complete interview Eustace Mullins talks about the conspiracy of the Federal Reserve, The World Order, George Bush, Zionists, Israel, Mossad, Neo-Cons, CIA, FBI, 9/11, and the Zionists design for a Christian Muslim war.

Online books of Eustace Mullins:

Secrets of the Federal Reserve - modernhistoryproject.org/​mhp/​ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FedReserve

The World Order - modernhistoryproject.org/​mhp/​ArticleDisplay.php?Article=WorldOrder

Eustace Mullins - Who Rules Your Rulers? from Ritchy_Niburu_2 on Vimeo.


Related Article:

It's Happening !

An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media

5.8 Virginia earthquake shakes East Coast, rattles residents

An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media

Related Video

United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement. 

Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran (2 tours in Iraq), he currently plays amateur football and is in college.

Thomas comes from a long line of people who sacrifice for their country: Mother, Army Veteran (Iraq), Step father, Army, active duty (Afghanistan), Grand father, Air Force veteran (Vietnam), Great Grand Father Navy veteran (World War II).

Related Articles:

Occupy Wall Street officer Anthony Bologna 'broke pepper-spray rules'

Asia’s Wealthiest Avoid Banks, Opt For Family Offices

Main Street to Wall Street: Drop Dead

Eustace Mullins - Who Rules Your Rulers? from Ritchy_Niburu_2 on Vimeo.

Cuba President Raul Castro seeks term limits on leaders

BBC News, 14 October 2011

Changing Cuba 

• A last hurrah
• Rubber-stamping exercise?
• Market socialism?
• Q&A: Economic changes

Cuba's aging revolutionaries have been in charge
for more than 50 years

The Communist Party of Cuba has announced that it will consider President Raul Castro's unprecedented call for term limits for all government officials.

A statement said the party conference in January would discuss a maximum of two five-year terms.

The document also called for the promotion of qualified young leaders.

Earlier this year, President Castro said Cuba must prepare a new generation to take over.

Raul Castro, who is now 80, said the same limits would apply to him.

He took over from his brother, Fidel, in 2008. Between them, they have ruled Cuba for 52 years since 1959.

Renewal

The statement on the proposal for term limits will be discussed at party meetings in the coming months.

It said the aim was to achieve a "gradual renewal in leadership".

The proposal also spoke of a need to promote racial and gender diversity in positions of responsibility.

However, it reaffirmed the Communist Party's position as the only one allowed in Cuba.

The document also warned that the government's foreign enemies were "lurking and waiting to pounce".

"The imperialists pin their hopes on the supposed vulnerability of the new generations... They try to foment division, apathy, dismay... and a lack of confidence in the leadership of the revolution and the party," it said.

President Castro raised the issue in April at the start of the first congress of Cuba's ruling Communist Party for 14 years.

He said the party leadership was in need of renewal and should subject itself to severe self-criticism.

In his speech then, Raul Castro said the limit of two consecutive five-year terms would apply to "the current president of the Council of State and his ministers" - a reference to himself.

The proposal is unprecedented under Cuban communism.

Related Article:

African dictators warned: 'Your time is up'

Peru president replaces senior police officers in anti-corruption purge

Ollanta Humala signs decree pushing 30 police generals into retirement, including head of anti-drugs division

guardian.co.uk, Dan Collyns in Lima, Tuesday 11 October 2011

The Peruvian president, Ollanta Humala, took power promising to tackle
corruption and has approval ratings of about 65%. Photograph: Mariana
Bazo/Reuters

Peru's new president, Ollanta Humala, has replaced two-thirds of the country's most senior police officers in a purge designed to root out corruption in the force.

Thirty of Peru's 45 police generals have been pushed into retirement in a decree signed by Humala over the weekend. Security experts said a shakeup of this scale was unprecedented. Among those sacked was General Raul Becerra, the director and commander of the anti-drugs division, Dirandro, at a time when Peru comes close to rivalling Colombia, the world's number one cocaine producer, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

"We must banish any act of corruption that stains the name of the police," said the force's new director, Raul Salazar, at his inauguration ceremony on Monday. "From the smallest to the most important. It does not matter if you steal one sol, or more," he said, referring to the Peruvian currency.

Recent opinion polls show most Peruvians questioned consider the police to be the most corrupt institution in the country. Humala, who took office at the end of July vowing to tackle corruption and social inequality, has a 65% approval rating according to the latest polls.

But critics have accused the president of acting hastily without giving officers the opportunity to defend themselves from corruption allegations. At least one police general said he had been sacked even though he had not been linked to any wrongdoing.

"This isn't an anti-corruption drive. It's a pretext to politically control the police," the security expert and former interior minister Fernando Rospigliosi said. "Some of those who have been sacked are not being investigated for corruption while some of those who remain are," he said. "This move is aimed at creating personal loyalty among the newly appointed police generals which will be harmful to the institution as a whole."

The vice-president, Omar Chehade, said the overhaul of the police hierarchy was the result of a "rigorous evaluation" by Humala and the ministers of interior and defence. But another former interior minister, Remigio Hernani, told Peru's RPP radio: "If indeed it's the case that there are generals with problems, not all of them are corrupt, not all of them are inept. Some are very respectable."

Peru had the highest perception of insecurity of any country in Latin America, beating even El Salvador and Brazil, even though the actual rates of violent crime in those countries are substantially higher, according to a survey carried out by the Latin American Public Opinion Project and published in late 2010. This perception of insecurity appeared to be strongly linked to the low credibility of the police force, which is widely viewed as ineffective and corrupt.

Meanwhile drug-trafficking has increased as Mexican cartels are supplied by the remnants of the Shining Path guerrilla group which grow and process the coca leaf into cocaine on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes.

Peru is the world's second biggest producer of cocaine after Colombia. Its area under coca cultivation has grown steadily for four years to reach 61,200 hectares last year, according to the UNODC.

Yet Peru trails behind Colombia in drugs interdiction. Colombia's annual cocaine seizures have fluctuated around the level of 200 tonnes since 2008, while Peruvian authorities seized just over 40 tonnes in 2010, little more than one fifth of that amount.

Peru has recently boosted its national police force to tackle the rise in crime and drug trafficking, taking on 5,600 recruits this year to bring its overall numbers to about 104,000.