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 GUERRILLA ACTION SPRINGING UP

Latin-American rulers frightened

IDELY unreported in the

Western press is the fact
that armed guerrilla struggle is
being carried on in some Latin
American countries. It is part of
the national liberation movement
against local tyranny and U.S.
mperialist domination.

Hiding in tropical forests and
Mountains, guerrilla groups often
Strike hard against government
forces,

Whereas this type of struggle
Was somewhat isolated after the

War, in the past few years it has

become one of the forms of the
National liberation movement.
The Mexican journal, Manana,
Teports guerrilla warfare in six
Countries — Guatemala, Colom-
bia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador
and Paraguay.
PARAGUAY

The magazine says that in
Paraguay the liberation army is
& force that must be reckoned
with. In some areas, guerrillas
are able to swing big attacks on
§0vernment forces.

pane guerrilla movement in
ataguay is led by the United
National-Liberation Front, which
Unites the country’s left-wing
Parties and is supported by the
Workers, peasants, students and
Many intellectuals.

Last year guerrillas occupied
General-Aquina and Caraguatay
after Smashing government

This is the Venezuelan
freighter Anzoategui, which
was recenily taken over by a
group of patriots to demon-

troops there.

In its leaflets, the United Na-
tional-Liberation Front calls on
the people to rise against the
Stroessner dictatorship, against
the construction of U.S. missile
bases and against the domina-
tion of U.S. capital over the na-

‘tional economy.

VENEZUELA

There is a big guerrilla move-
ment in Venezuela. The press re-
ports guerrilla forces operating
in six states — Lara, Merida,

Portuguesa, Sucre, Falcon and
Yracuy.
The Betancourt government

admits that the guerrillas could

strate the opposition in their
country to the U.S.-backed
Betancourt regime. The boat
later put in at a Brazilian

cut communications between the
capital and important oil fields.

Some time ago, guerrillas at-
tacked Mariscal Sucre, Vene-
zuela’s biggest air base, and a
merchant marine school 13 miles
from Caracas. Targets in Falcon
were Acarigua and Nuevo.

More than 100 guerrillas oper-
ate in this area, writes the Vene-
zuelan Nacional.

In Venezuela, guerrilla warfare
has been strengthened by mass
protests in the cities. Even the
Western press reported uprisings
against the government and
domination by U.S. oil mono-
polies after Betancourt’s advent

the

where
granted political asylum.

port men were

to power in 1958. Some of those
who took part in such demon-
strations later fled the cities and
joined the guerrillas in the moun-
tains.
COLOMBIA

The third biggest movement
in Latin America is in Colombia.
Armed struggle has been going
on since 1948. Punitive expedi-
tions undertaken by government
troops have been unsuccessful.

Some of the mountain and
forest villages have been admin-
istered by guerrillas for years
and the government has_ not
been able to smash them.

In Guatemala, guerrillas have

put forward a revolutionary pro-
gram which includes agrarian re-
form, progressive labor legisla-
tion and full national indepen-
dence.

ECUADOR

The former defense minister
of Ecuador, Francisco Tamaris
Palacios, recently admitted that.
the guerrilla movement in his
country is gaining momentum
despite measures taken against
it.

The guerrilla movement in
Latin America has so alarmed
U.S. policy-makers that in Pa-
nama, the Pentagon has opened
a special anti-guerrilla training
school.

The reactionary governments
of some of the Latin American
countries have also decided to
work together to suppress the

. guerrilla movement. Venezuelan

Foreign Minister Falcon Brizeno
recently dropped in on Colombia,
Peru and other countries and
discussed the possibility of an
anti-guerrilla front.

The aim of the armed struggle
by the people is_ self-defense
against the rule of imperialism,
and it is directed against U-S.
imperialism and its agents in
the various countries.

It is a form of the national
liberation struggle for political
rights, freedom and_ indepen-
dence.

U.S. talking disarmament while
preparing nuclear rearmament

hile the United States

tells the world it is
Pressing for disarmament, it
IS in fact carrying out a new
Program for the nuclear re-
armament of the western
World.

The new nuclear arma-
ments plan includes a net of
Mobile” nuclear submarine
bases stretching from Britain
to the Pacific Ocean.
American plans were ex-
Posed recently in a Pravda
article by Soviet correspon-
dent Yuri Zhukov. He writes:
_ After the Caribbean crisis
it became clear that the abo-
lition of these bases (in Eur-
Spe and the Middle East)
Could no longer be put off. It
Was learned that the Turkish
and U.S. governments had
88reed to dismantle nuclear
cee in Turkey. It was al-
reported that missiles
Would be withdrawn from
Italy,
i The news of the forthcom-
4g dismantling of American
ases in Britain had come
€arlier.
Warithoritative people in
ington assured me last
Beet writes Zhukov,
ane the dismantling of US.
es €ar-missile land bases in
ae was feasible and this
Be be carried out in the
Stage of disarmament.
ae now we are hearing
ne quite different.
it & voices are saying that
i not the “first stage of
a Tmament” at all, but a
cess of “modernization” of
TO armaments.
* hat is intended here is a
The to ring the entire
a “Asian continent with
obile, sea-based sites.”
€lr aims include:

First, to transform the en-
tire Mediterranean Sea into
a mobile submarine nuclear
base. The ports to prop up
this system are the Spanish
base of Rota (near Cadiz),
Naples (reported by the As-
sociated Press on Jan. 26)
and bases on Crete (reported
by the Greek newspaper, El-
eftheria, on Feb. 3):

Second, to preserve the
Arctic mobile submarine nu-
clear base at the British port
of Holy Loch.

Third, as the Daily Express
wrote on. Jan. 28, to estab-
lish a similar mobile submar-
ine nuclear base in the Indian
Ocean, at Aden, which ‘will
spreading of NATO

n the
Oe f the

influence to the east 0
Suez.”

Fourth, to set up a mobile
nuclear submarine base 10
the Pacific Ocean, now at
Guam, later at Japanese
ports. Despite public protest,
the Japanese government has
already agreed to US. nu-
clear submarines putting 1n

‘at Japanese bases.

NEW PLANS
Admiral Moorer,
command of the US. 5
Fleet, lost no time :
nouncing that the ‘United
States already has a plan for
deploying U.S. nuclear sub-
marines in - Japanese waters
shortly,” and that the U.S.
would like to obtain the Dee
of Yokosuka and Sasebo for

this purpose.

One shoul
this fundamentally new ap-
proach to setting up a SYS
tem of nuclear bases to serve
as support points for carry-
ing out the far-reaching plans
of the U-S. and_ its allies,

writes Zhukov.

chief in
eventh
in an-

d not underrate

These plans are directed
not only against the socialist
countries, but also against any
state which does not wish to

bow to the American diktat,'

whether in Europe, Asia, Af-
rica or on the American con-

tinent.

These mobile submarine
bases are an atomic noose
which the U.S. is attempting
to put around the entire
world.

Any. nuclear base on for-
eign territory and in foreign
territorial water, i instru-

March 1, 19683—PACI

ment of aggression, a threat
of war, Zhukov concludes.
The only way to liquidate
this threat is to remove such
bases once and for all and not
to undertake their ‘“modern-
ization” by hiding the mis-
i nder water.

The British Daily Work.
er is leading the fight
to oust the Tory Mac-
millan government
which is betraying the
nation to the U.S. A
very lively paper, at-
tractively got up, the
Daily Worker has won
many awards for out-
standing journalism in
recent years..

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