Shite's foreign minister Huerta

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Tye SUSTAVO ULACIA
atom” fail to describe the

nel ts Made by General
‘¢ amaa Huerta, Minister of For-

being a fascist, Huerta
the biggest liars we
eres SerO8S. ‘He had the
& litical a eat there are
Ad that ers in Chile
fiteg.p,N0body is being tor-

at dispust;
tt eusting,
Pek the fascist military
Yanzer itator of the Somozas,
#] ation,” Paar, Stroessner,
Nurdar. 0 and every other
hoes that has ae Latin
as i for years, went as far
Saivadon ult the late President
the Allende, the leaders of
| the ig Unity parties and
binetang and martyrs of the

Hee Vict

bloodthirsty

Ms of the treacherous
2 SePtember 11, 1973,
D es “But I can say
ere than sufficient evi-
‘t the tin torture was applied
ite of the government
ic Pular Unity.” $
; a like to remind this
J beon’t the one thing that
doubt is the oved beyond any
Yer t, since that Septem-

ft ascist mi

and Scist military quar-
: bg Gres fellow-murderers
| deren ed, tortured, raped,
y ate a thrown into the
th ye thousand. ® and lakes of
:

S of men and

We Ww
Ba Of ink to remind this
hag tOusang that, right
Hyd like S of Chileans are
N mips Cattle in concentra-
0 gp p without any cloth-
| ag’ dep ae Without medical
Ney sub; Of any outside
J a and oe to ill-treat-

ie . — :
7 at oF (¥olutionary Govern-
; we inggies has put in motion
“tytiversa Ral reform based
| wish . Suffrage which will
thy , “ect state manage-
n ts, _ “Uban workers and
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we ot the SS Will be tested in
te 1's Brovinces of the
tion: tended lat
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a
: [Pen eMization of the new
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of thi at the nd of the first

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tntnzas ®ar in the province
ters of — 11,882 square
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wag ee People’s power,
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We would also like to remind
this representative of reaction
that it has been proved that the
methods used by the “interro-
gators” in dealing with political
prisoners are similar to those
used by the nazis in the concen-
tartion camps of Terezin, Oswie-
cim and Treblinka, as shown vin
a report published by the daily
Excelsior, in Mexico, in which
the various methods of torture
are described in full detail.

In the. face of a 90-minute
barrage of questions dealing
with the repression and torture

that are being applied in Chile

against anyone who opposes
fascism, Huerta blurted out, It

It was also-decided to create
a commission to organize, regu-
late and lead this process, which
will result. in the creation of
municipal, regional and provin-
cial assemblies and executive
committees. i

The committee is headed by
Blas Roca, member of the Sec-
retariat of the Cuban Commun-
ist Party; its vice-president is
Julian Rizo, ‘first secretary of
the Matanzas provincial com-
mittee of the Cuban Communist
Party.

Two important constitutional.
changes were the right to vote _

granted to all Cubans 16 years
old and over (the old Consti-
tution required twenty years of
age), including for the first time
members of the Armed Forces.

Article 97 of this basic law
reads as follows: “It is decreed
that universal, equal and secret
suffrage is the right, duty and
every Cuban
citizen.”

The mentally incapacitated and
the legally guilty are disquali-
fied from exercising universal
suffrage.

The last elections in Cuba
were held in November 1958,
barely two months. before the
triumph of the Revolution which
put an end to the false repub-
licanism and defeated the basic

Democratic

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is quite evident that Marxism is
doing a good job and the press
campaign against Chile con-
continues.”

One of the reporters came out
with this devastating question:
“But, .Mr. Minister, The ‘New
York Times has published edi-
torials against torture in Chile.
Are you saying that The New
York Times is Marxist?”

Crushed by the question—for
everyone knows very well that
The New York Times is a
spokesman for. the great US.
monopolies — General Ismael
Huerta oozed out of the room
and slunk back to his lair.

, —Granma (Cuba)

structures that supported the old
italist regime.
The law which decreed the
creation of the organizing com-
mittee adds that the election and
operation of the people’s power
organs in Matanzas will serve to
obtain the necessary experience
that will facilitate its implemen-
tation in the entire country.
These bodies will have the
power to govern, and manage ,
economic orgnisms of produc-
tion and services and to under-
take construction and repara-
ions. :
othe people’s power bodies
will be organized at regional,
provincial and national levels
with democratically elected rep-
ntatives. .
ie representatives of the
interests of the population that
elects them, the delegates will
be answerable to the voters and
will be obliged to give a peri-
odic report of their acts. If they
do not adeauatelv carry out their
responsibilities the voters will
have the right to revoke their

_ mandate.

The delegates, to be elected
through an openly democratic
process (universal and secret
suffrage) will not be profes-
sionals in the exercise of their
activities but will assume their
duties along with their usual

working activities.

Canada.

liars ~ When political leaders

come to French Canada

By SAM WALSH

The moment they set foot in
Quebec the leaders of the Lib-
eral, Conservative, Créditiste
and New Democratic parties,
from the beginning of the elec-
tion campaign, have done some
fancy footwork. oe

According to the Gazette of-

Montreal, both the Liberals and
the Conservatives will spend
less than one quarter of what
they will spend in Toronto for
media publicity in Montreal..
All these four parties are in
accord in ignoring the  bi-
national fact in Canada in favor
of economic questions and the
question of “leadership”.

No one can deny the first-rate.

importance of economic prob-
lems — galloping inflation,
exorbitant profits for the big
monopolies and multi-national
companies, low-cost housing,
etc. All these problems affect
Québécois as much as all other
Canadians. Those. like the

the leadership of the Parti

Québécois, who try to’ make
Québécois ignore their common
interest with all Canadians in
the outcome of the current elec-
tions, themselves ignore reality
and do harm, as we pointed out
at the very beginning of the
campaign.
: Forced Debate

But it was Mr. Bourassa him-
self who, willy-nilly, “opened
the can of worms”, by introduc-
ing his notorious Bill 22 on the
language question, thus forcing
a debate on the national: ques-
tion during the federal elections,
even if in distorted form.

The reaction of the federal
Liberals found typical expres-
sion in the comments of their
leader Pierre Elliott Trudeau in
his own constituency of Mount
Royal, along the following lines:
Don’t worry, my English-speak-
ing friends, I'll make sure, if
re-elected Prime Minister of
Canada, that the provincial Lib-
eral government protects you.
So that your only guarantee is
my re-election. But Bill 22 is not
a federal election issue. The
main federal election issue is
“Jeadership”.

Mr. Stanfield, when con-
fronted with questions about Bill
22, made haste to give the same
reply, to wit, that this question
should not be inserted into the
federal elections. However, in
the face of the nomination
as Conservative candidate of
Mayor Jones of Moncton, New
Brunswick, a notorious anti-
French-Canadian bigot, he had
the courage to void his nomina-
tion. After all; he had said on
many occasions that he would
not like to be called to form
a federal government without
several Quebec seats. But he
didn’t lift a finger to annul the
candidacy (for the second time
running) of the notorious cold
warrior, the fanatic pro-fascist
Lubor Zink in Toronto.

; - Most Curious

As for Mr. Caouette, for him
the solution to all questions,
including that of Quebec and of
inflation (which in classic form
consists in the printing and cir-
culation of paper money in
excess of available consumer
gocds) is precisely the printing
and circulation of billions of
paper dollars by. the Bank of

The most curious of all was
Mr. David Lewis of the NDP.
During his first election visit to
Montreal, two Péquistes heckled
him at a very poorly attended
meeting. Mr. Lewis was right
to reject the directive published
by the PQ, calling for spoiling
the ballot, as irresponsible—the
same criticism we made two
weeks beforehand, as our read-
ers know. But one of the Péquis-
tes raised a valid question, to
the effect that, of 14 ethnic
groups in Montreal studied by a
committee of the Royal Com-
mission on Bi-Lingualism and
Bi-Culturalism with respect to
income, French-Canadians were

' found to be in 12th position,

ahead only of Italo-Canadians
and Indians.

National Oppression

David Lewis directly denied
the results of this inquiry, by in-
sisting (quite beside the point)
that there are English-speaking
Montrealers, as well as in Eng-
lish Canada, just as poor as
French-Canadians: Of course,
this is a self-evident truth, but
it can in no way wash away the
fact that the French-Canadians
as a group in Montreal are near

- the bottom of the economic Jad-

der and “Anglo-Saxons” as a
group are risht: up on the top
rung —a clear exnression of
the national onpression to which
the French-Canadians have heen
Subjected since the conquest.
Then,. when Mr. Lewis insist-
ed, as he did at this meeting, on
the necessity for unity of the
“poor” of all Canada-against the
multi-national corporations, he
was right again. This is abso-
lutely necessary in the interests
of all those who have good rea-
son to fight against the domina-
tion of the monopolies and of
U.S. imperialism. But someone
ought to have answered him
that genuine unity can only be

- established on the basis of the

unequivocal recognition that the
Frénch-Canadians in Quebec
constitute a nation, that this na-
tion is oppressed and must have
the right to self-determination.

Struggles Linked

It was in this very spirit that
the convention of the Canadian

Labor Congress, a few weeks-~

ago, contributed mightily to the
strengthening of the unity of the
workers of all Canada, as Louis
Laberge, president of the Que-
bec Federation of Labor stress-
ed, by granting autonomous
rights to the QFL. The workers
of English Canada showed in
this historic convention that they
understand the right, the only
path to unity, much better than
the trade union ' bureaucrats
who opposed autonomy for the
QFL in the name of “Unity.”

Only the leader of the Com-
munist Party of Canada, Wil-
liam Kashtan, during his first
election appearance in Quebec,
was able to link the struggle
for the national rights of the

‘French.;Canadians with the

struggle of -all the democratic

‘arid labor forces of the whole

country. In the 14 ridings in
Quebec which will have Com-
munist candidates, indeed in the
70-odd such ridings across Can-
ada, progressive voters should
bear this in mind on July 8.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1974-PAGE®