So M$ tried but they couldn't buy Peru. Here's a quote from the article

Pérez-Martí outlined one of the big reasons why this policy was announced. 
According to Pérez-Martí, the government and the people of Venezeula were 
increasingly concerned that over 75 percent of the funds for software 
licenses went to foreign nations, 20 percent to foreign support agencies, and 
only 5 percent to Venezuelan programmers. 

Full story here:

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-30-011-26-NW-LL-PB

An Interview with Peruvian Congressman Villanueva is here:

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-20-006-26-IN-LF-PB

Dennis Kibbe