[리마=AP/KNS뉴스통신] 과거의 과격이미지를 벋어 버리고 대통령에 당선된 오얀타 우말라 페루 대통령이 28일 거행된 취임식 연설에서 빈민에 대한 강력한 지원정책을 시행할 것이라고 말했다.

우말라 대통령은 페루의 광물자원개발로 얻은 재원으로 빈부격차를 해소하는 정책을 수립할 것이라고 밝혔다.

좌파인 우말라 대통령은 해외 투자를 유치하기 위해 전임 대통령의 정책을 답습할 것으로 알려지면서 전 재무부 차관을 재무장관으로 임명했다.

(영문기사 원문)

New Peru president: the poor are my priority

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ollanta Humala, the leftist military man who won Peru's presidency after abandoning a radical platform, promised in his inaugural address Thursday to make his priority the one in three Peruvians still mired in poverty.

The 49-year-old former army lieutenant colonel charted a plan for spreading the wealth 　from Peru's mineral boom beyond Lima, 　where it has been concentrated among a small elite, to long-neglected hinterlands.

"Peru's peasants and the poor in the countryside in general will be the priority," Humala said in remarks before a newly installed Congress and dignitaries who included 11 presidents, almost all 　from South America.
He quoted South Africa's anti-apartheid hero and former president, Nelson Mandela, in arguing there can be no democracy 　where misery and "social asymmetry" persist.

Humala's will be a daunting juggling act: He also signaled his intention to maintain the business status quo and honor all international pacts, including a raft of free-trade agreements enacted by his predecessors.

To reassure foreign investors, Humala retained the incumbent central bank chief, Julio Velarde, and named as finance minister Luis Miguel Castilla, a deputy finance minister for the past year and a half in the outgoing government of President Alan Garcia.

The Cabinet is dominated by moderate technocrats but also includes, as culture minister, the renowned singer Susana Baca. She is Peru's first black Cabinet member.

Humala didn't explain how he planned to pay for the generous social programs he catalogued Thursday, most of which he promised during the campaign, though he has said he intends to seek taxes on windfall mining profits.

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