lutionary way; it is fear of workers, peasants, students, ‘intellectuals and progressive groups from the middle strata of the population seizing, in a revolutionary way, power in the countries now starved, oppressed and exploited by the Yankee monopolies and the reactionary oligarchies of Amer- ican countries; fear of the robbed peoples of the continent taking away from their oppressors and proclaiming them- . gelves, as Cuba did, free peoples of America. After crushing the Cuban revolution they hope to dispel the fear tormenting them, to drive away the menacing spectre of the revolution. After destroying the Cuban revo- lution they hope to destroy the revolutionary spirit of the peoples. They resort to the crazy assertion that Cuba is exporting revolution. : The idea has stuck in the brain of the insomnia-ridden merchants and usurers that revolutions can be bought or sold, ordered or lent, exported or imported — as a com- modity. Ignorant of the objective laws determining the development of human society, they consider their mono- listic, capitalist and semi-feudal regimes to be perpetual. Nourished by their reactionary ideology which is a hodge- podge of prejudice, ignorance, subjectivism, pragmatism and other mental aberrations, they retain a concept of the whole world and of historical development which suits their exploiter-class interests. : They consider that_revolutions are born or die in the ~ minds of individuals or due to divine laws, and that gods play a part in this. They have always believed in this, from the pagan patricians.of slave-owning Rome who threw first Christians to lions in the circus, and the med- ieval inquisitors who, in the capacity of guardians of feud- alism and absolute monarchy, burned at the stake the first exponents of the free mentality of the emerging bour- geoisie, right up to the present bishops, who anathematize the proletarian revolution in defense of the bourgeois and monopolistic system. * When the antagonism between the exploiters and the exploited reached the peak of its tension, heralding the appearance of a new social system, all the reactionary classes have resorted at all historical periods to the worst means of oppression: and to calumny against their adver- aries. _ The first Christians were put to death by torture after being accused of settitng Rome on fire and of sacrificing children at their altars. Such thinkers as Giordano Bruno, such reformers as Jan Hus, and thousands of people who disagreed with the feudal system were burned at the stake - by the Inquisition after being accused of heresy. Right now the fighters of the proletariat are being subjected to per- secution, and in the process crimes are being committed against them, and all this is preceded by the worst kind - of calumny in the monopolistic and bourgeois press. At any time and in any period of history the ruling classes massacred people in the name of their society, in which a privileged minority holds sway over the exploited majority, in the name of the defense of society, law and order, and the homeland: “their class law and order,” which is imposed upon the deprived by sword and fire; the “homeland,” which serves only. their own interests - and-not those of the rest of the people; they did this in order to exterminate the revolutionaries who fight for a new society, justice and a real homeland for all. _ However, it is impossible to contain the- development of history and mankind’s onward march. The forces which ~ stimulate the peoples that are real creators of history, the - forces which are determined by the material conditions of _ their existence, by the lofty aspirations of prosperity and freedom, which are manifest whenever possible thanks to man’s progress in the field of science, technology and culture — these forces are stronger than the will and ter- roristic acts of the ruling oligarchy. - The subjective conditions in each country, i.e., such factors as consciousness, organization and leadership, can either speed up or obstruct the revolution, depending on _ the degree of development; yet, sooner or later at any historical period, when objective conditions are ripe, con- sciousness appears, along with the organization and leader- ship, and the revolution begins. S nei ke _ Whether this will be done in a peaceful way or in birth throes depends not on the revolutionaries, but on the re- actionary forces of the old society, which interfere with the advent of new society conceived by the contradictions _ in old society. The revolution is a doctor of history, a doc- tor that helps new life to be born. It does not resort - without need to means of violence, but uses them without hesitation whenever necessary to help the birth ‘which brings hopes of a better life to the oppressed and the _ exploited masses. : bss og: In many countries of Latin America the revolution has now become inevitable. This does not depend on anyone’s will. It is the result of the monstrous exploitation under — : le of the American continent live, the re- sult of the development of the revolutionary consciousness . of the masses, the world crisis of imperialism and the general struggle of the enslaved nations, The disorders which now take place are a sure symptom — of the uprising. The whole continent is now rising up, a continent which for four centuries witnessed the slave, | semi-slave, and feudal exploitation of man, beginning with - the natives and the slaves brought from Africa and wind- - ing up .with the national groups which appeared later: - white people, Negroes, mulattoes, the Metis and Indians - who are treated today with disdain and humiliated because they are under the Yankee rule, Yet, they all hope for a better future. ~ oo : : Though the peoples of America freed themselves from Spanish colonial‘s«m in the beginning of the past century, they did not, however, free themselyes from exploitation. The feudal landlords succeeded to the power of the Span- - _ ish rulers, the Indians were cruelly oppressed, the inhabit- ants of Latin America continued to be treated as slaves in one form or another, and the slightest hopes of nations - _ were trampled by the sway of oligarchy and the yoke of — foreign capital: That was» how -the truth about America - lookéd in a variety of hues and forms. Nowadays, Latin America is suffering under the yoke of @ more vicious, powerful and ruthless imperialism than the one represented by the Spanish colonial empire. * How are the Yankee imperialists acting in these objec- tive conditions with the revolution in Latin America being inevitable? They intend to start a colonial struggle against the peo- Ee ples of Latin America, to set up an apparatus of force, to find political pretexts and adopt pseudo-legal decisions that would be signed by representatives of the reactionary oligarchies, and all this in order to suppress by sword and fire the struggle of the Latin American peoples. The U.S. government’s interference in the domestic poli- tical affairs of the Latin American countries becomes ever more open and outrageous. For instance, the Inter-American Defense Board has always been a nest of the most reactionary and pro-Amer- ican-minded officers in the armies of Latin American coun- tries, officers who are subsequently used by the monopolies for engineering state coups. The U.S. missions in Latin America actually make up a permanent spy apparatus in each of the countries, an ap- paratus closely connected with the Central Intelligence Agency. The latter inculcates in the minds of the officers the most reactionary ideas and endeavors to turn the arm- ies of Latin American countries into an instrument for the defense of its political and economic interests. Right now the United States military authorities have set up in the Panama Canal Zone special courses for train- ing Latin American officers in suppressing the guerilla warfare of the revolutionaries, so as to crush the armed struggle of the peasant masses against the feudal exploita- tion from which they suffer, In the United States itself the Central Intelligence Agency has organized special schools for training agents, recruited from among Latin Americans, in the subtlest forms of murder. This is a policy of physical extermination of the _ leaders of anti-imperialist forces, a policy which is offi- cially pursued by those who are in command of the Amer- ican armed forces. : The interesting thing is that the Yankee embassies in different Latin American countries organize, train and arm fascist gangs so as to engage in terroristic acts and make attacks on the organizations of workers, students and in- _tellectuals. These gangs, the sons of the representatives of the oligarchy, of various deteriorated elements and people without any standards of moral behaviour, have already or- ganized a series of aggressive attacks on different mass organizations. * Nothing reveals the intentions of imperialism so clearly and unerringly as its actions during the recent events in Santo Domingo. Without any justification whatsoever, with- out even having diplomatic relations with that republic, the United States sent its warships into the bay of the capital of the Dominican Republic and announced with the insolence inherent in it that if the government of Balaguer - should ask for military aid, it would Jand troops in Santo Domingo in order to suppress the revolutionary actions of the. Dominican people. : A The fact that Balague’s rule was quite unlawful, . that every sovereign people of America must have the right to ~ settle its own jinternal problems without foreign interfer- _ence, that standards of international law and world public opinion exist, even that the Organization of American States exists — all this did not interest the United States. They took into account only their own plans for prevent- ing a revolution in the Dominican Republic and resuming the odious landings of its Marines, having no justification for these piratical actions but the request of a dictatorial and unlawful government undergoing a crisis at that time. The policy, openly proclaimed by United States imperial- ism — the policy of sending soldiers to fight against the revolutionary movement in any Latin American, country, in other words, to kill the workers, students, peasants, men _ and women of Latin America — pursues but one aim: the preservation of the interests of the monopolies and the - privileges of the treacherous oligarchies which support the former. : ae Siig te : fo ee eae _ At present it is quite clear that the military pacts bet- ween the United States government and the governments of. the Latin American countries, pacts which are often _ secret and always concluded behind the back of the peo- ples, on the excuse of a danger allegedly pending from without which no one has ever seen anywhere, pursues one aim only — to impéde the struggle of the peoples., These are pacts against’ the peoples, against one danger — the danger of a liberation movement within the countries, which would threaten the interests of the Yankees. The peoples are not unfoundedly asking: Why are these military agreements necessary?. Why deliver arms which ~ from the technical aspect cannot be utilized for the pur- poses of modern warfare, but are quite suitable for the suppression of. strikes, the scattering of demonstrations, for drowning in blood popular actions? Why ‘are military missions, the Rio de Janeiro pact, and a thousand and one international conferences necessary? _- ee: ay -Ever since the end of the Second World War, the Latin American countries have been growing poorer and poorer, their. exports have been dropping steadily, they have been importing goods at ever higher prices, the level of per capita incomes has. been growing lower, the shocking level : of child mortality has not been reduced, the number of illiterates has remained tremendous, the people have had © no work, have constantly suffered from a shortage of land, — housing, schools, -hospitals, roads and means. of subsistence.- At the. same time United. States capital invest-_ ments in these countries have exceeded $10,000 million. » + dollats.’ Besides, Latin: America’ continues to be of cheap raw materials, and a buyer of expe goods. Like the first Spanish conquerors, whi and silver from the Indians in exchange for p rors and all sorts of tinsel-ware, in exactly the the United States is trading with Latin Americ To keep the source of wealth, to grab more of the riches of America and exploit her lon peoples — this is what lies behind the militar and the meetings of Washington diplomats. This policy, intended gradually to stifle the of the Latin American countries and their free to interfere openly in their home affairs, reach minating point at the latest session of foreign 7D * -Yankee imperialism called the foreign ministel at Punta del Este that it might, with the help pressure and unprecedented economic blackmi alliance with a group of discredited rulers tinent, force them to agree to give up the nati eignty of our peoples, to subordinate the peop will of the United States against which all hi fought, from Bolivar to Sandino, and to-sanctif right of the Yankees, to interfere in the hoi America. Neither the government of the United State sentatives of the exploiting oligarchies, nor — organs of the reactionary press, bought by the m and feudal seigniors, any longer concealed theit ® openly demanding decisions which would have formal violation of the rights of our peoples to nation, abolishing this right with one stroke with the help of the most shameful conspirac’ tory of our continent. % Behind closed doors, at the infamous secret at which the Yankee “Secretary for the Colt whole days trying to break down the resistance disperse the doubts of some of the foreign min tering millions of dollars from the Yankee t openly buying votes, a small handful of repre the oligarchies of countries which hardly rep third of the population of our continent, force?” on the conference, presenting them on a silver American master, the Yankees, who proclaimé ciple that has cost our peoples so much blooe beginning of the wars for independence. Such grievous and treacherous achievements ¢ ism, which may be described as a Pyrrhic victo defeat, a split of unity and a general scandal, duce the danger which the decisions, forced up ference in this way, present for the peoples of | rica. * _ At this dishonest gathering Cuba raised her lessly and with all her might, in order to € peoples of America and to the whole world nature of these attacks, and to defend with ‘dignity, which will go down in the annals — not only the rights of Cuba but also the rights ' fraternal countries of the American continen! of Cuba could not find a response among this majority. It could not obtain any answer: imp? became the only reply to the indisputable arg rang with clarity and courage. 0 Cuba did not speak for the foreign ministe At Punta’ del Este a great ideological battle between the Cuban revolution and Yankee imp* Who was represented there? On whose beh@ of the participants of the conference speak? Cuba represented the peoples, the United monopolies. ae Cuba spoke on behalf of the exploited mass ca, the United States upheld the interests of the representatives of the oligarchy and the ™ Cuba came out for sovereignty, the United »4 tervention. Cuba came out for the nationaliza - companies, the United States for new invest eign capital. Cuba defended culture, the United : ance, Cuba came out for the agrarian reform, States for the latifundists. Cuba came out fot % trialization of the American countries, the Unité backwardness. — Cuba upheld creative labor, the United State’, tage and counter-revolutionary terror conduc agents, the destruction of sugar plantations 4” the utilization of pirate planes against the peoP’ in peaceful labor. Cuba upheld the teachers wh® hands of murderers from the United States. Cuba upheld bread, the United States hu held equality, the United States privileges a) tion. Cuba came out for the truth, the Unitee deceit. Cuba came out for liberation, the Uni oppression, Cuba upheld mankind’s bright fut ted States, the hopless past. Cuba defended the heroes who fell at Playa ing their country. from foreign domination, the defended mercenaries and traitors *who sé _ state against their own motherland. 5 ‘Cuba came out for peace among nations, the for aggression and war, Cuba came out for | the United States for capitalism. ; The decisions, the adoption of which the achieved by crude methods, condemned by only stress the righteousness and the mor Cuba and. speak of the betrayal of national oligarchy and indicates to the peoples the road They speak of the decay of the exploiting clas of which their representatives spoke at Punta - The Organization of American States was ©