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7 March 1980
LATIN AMERICA RE:PORT
(FOUO 4/80)
CONTENTS PAGE _
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Huber Matcs Recalls.Early Revolution Da;~s, 'Gulagt Prisons '
(Huber Matos Interview; CAMBIU 16, 16 Dec 79~ 1
'PREI,A' Claims Illegal Rebel Stations Br~adcast Frora
Florida
- (Elmer Rodr~guez; PRELA, 11 Feb 80) 9
Briefs
Repression, EXecutions Reported 11
DOMINICAIV REPUBLIC
Briefs -
Ba,nana Exporting Group Membership 12
EL SALVADOR ~
OCLAE Claims Capture of Students by U.S. Marines
(PRELA, 2 Feb 8G) 13
Tnterviewed LP-28 Leader Seeks ~Authentic Revolution'
(~ia,risol Galindo Interview; IPS, 15 Feb 80)........ 14 ~
. HONDURAS
Briefs
Newsmen Denounce Government Pressures 16
JAMAICA
Foreign Relations Minister Urges U.S. Noninterference in
Caribbean
(Jorge Armendariz; PRELA, 7 Feb 80) 17
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CONTENTS (Continued) g~~,g~
CARICOM Countries Issue Commuiiique
(Frank Gonzalez; PREI,A, 10 Feb 80) 18
NICARAGUA
Borge Says Government Will Arm People for Defense Purposes
(PREI~A, 1 Feb 80) 20
Interior Ministry Hits ~AP~ for Alleging Prisoner Abuses
(PRELA, 1 Feb 80) 22
Briefs
Cuban Doctors Arrive 23
Sandinists in El Salvador 23
PANAMA
Panama. People's Party Six~h National Cor~gress Adjourns
(PRII~A, 11 Feb 80) 24
PF~RU
Peasant Battle Leaves Six Dead., Three Injured
(PRELA, 13 Jan 80) 25
PCP, Others Protest Journalist's Axrest
(PRELA, 15 Feb 80) 26
Briefs
Journalist Arrested 28
, URUGUAY
Briefs ~
Antarctic Treaty Ratified 29
VE~]EZUEI,A
Athletes Reportedly Withheld From Comp~tition in Cuba
(PRELA, 15 Feb 80) 30
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HUBER MATOS RECALLS EARLY REVOLUTION DAYS, 'GULAG' PRISONS
Madrid CA1~I0 16 in Spanish 16 Dec 79 pp 79~ 80, 82, 83, 85
[interview with Huber Matos by Pierre Golendo of CAMBIO 16 in San Jose,
Costa Rica, date not givenJ ~ -
[Text] Around the end of December 1956, 12 men wandered exhaustedly
through the rugged mountains ~f the eastern coast of Cuba. They had 3ust
had a battle with the troops of Fulgencio Batista, a sergeant-
steno~rapher of fortune, who rose tfl the presidency of the republic.
They barely had any ammunition and only 11 old rifles. They were the
remnants of an expedition which left neighboring Mexico on 2 December
and had l.anded under the command of a young 29-year-old lawyer named
Fidel Castro. They were the revolutionaries of the Sierra Maeatra.
A short time afterward, a modes~ Cuban schoolteacher from the city of
Manzanilla, Huber Matos, 3oined the guerrillas. He brought clothing,
suppltes and medicines to the scene of the fighting. Two years later,
_ that same man brought an airplane from Costa Rica with tons ~f weapons
and ammunition, which he delivered to the leaders of the 26 July
Movement.
In recognition, the chief of the inaurrection, Fidel Castro, appointed
him a major in the rebel army, the highest grade, and he placed him in ~
command of Column No 9, wt~ich was to participate in the seige and
seizure oi the city of Santiago de Cuba, the capital of Oriente Province.
Only a year later, that same honored major was to fall into disgrace for
opposing communist infiltration into the spheres of the nascent revolu-
tionary government and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
Released 'last 21 October, thanks to international pressure, from San Jose,
- Costa Rica, where he has rejoined his wife, son and g-randctiildren, whom
he did not yet know, Huber Matos gives another veteran of Castro's
prisons, Pierre Golendo, an exclusive inrerview for CAMBIO 16 about the
circumstances and real reasons for his arrest, and he receals the sub-
human conditions of the Cuban polf~ical prisoners.
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CAMBIO 16: Under what specific circumstances did your arrest take place,
you being the military chief of Camaguey Province?
Huber Matos: After the defeat of Batista, shortlq after what we could
call the dawn of freedom, some of us noted indications that the revolu-
tion did not appear to be moving in the agreed-upon direction. Every-
~ thing that had been promised to the people about a democratic, humanistie,
nationalist change filled with the thirst for ~ustice, with acti~~~e
participation in government~ was being removed from their view. We
viewed the progressive process of ideolog3cal reorientation taking place
among the cadres of the armed forces as the most serioue symptom. Thus,
the magazine VERDE OLIVO, the color the Rebe]. Army uniform, was changing
. the tone of ita lecturing aimed at the soldiers and officers toward
undemocratic positions.
We inquired and we learned of the promotion of known communists to
important posts. And although none of us were anticommunists, we could
- not refrain from showing our annoyance at those events. While a large
number oi Marxist-Leninists fought in the Sierra Maestra, the participa-
tion at high levels of the Batista Government of prominent members of the
cryptocommunist Popular Socialist Party such as Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
and B1as~Roca, was well known.
The Resignation
On the o~her hand, it was becoming more and more obvious th:~t the
revolution needPd a collective leadership. Armed struggle had been led
exclusively by Fidel. However, it was now a matter of governing a
nation, of administering the interests of the Cuban people and the best
way to attempt it was in a democratic manner. We propoaed this to
- Castro repeatedly and he always said we were right. However, time went
by and nothing happened, he kept putting us off.
Things being as they were, I sent Fidel the first private letter ex-
plaining that :lt would be best for me to leave the army. It was
July 1959 and a year had already gone by since the victory and I
believed that it was enough time. I did not receive a reply. On
19 October, three months later, I decided to leave the revolutionary
leadership and the ranks of the Rebel Army.
At that time it was already obvious to me that the Sierra Maestra slogan
of "Liberty or Death" was becoming something else and that it was
coma?itting us to nothing less than the negative task vf giving death to
democracy. ~t the same time that I was privately telling Castro of my
d~cision, I sent my request for discharge to the army staff in care of
Camilo Cienfuegos. I wanted to go home and to my private activities. '
I was a teacher and I always liked education more than the barracks.
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CAMBIO 16: And that is what was called a plot?
Huber Matos: On the night 20-21 October, we were surprised to hear on
the radio that there wae a military tiprising in Camaguey. Captain
Mendoza, today a member of the Communist Party of Cuba Central
Committee, and the director of the official daily GRANMA, ahouted over ~
the airwaves that we were with Tru~illo, with the Batista followera in
Miami, that we were sabotaging the agrarian reform and that we were dis-
obeying the decisions of the central government. We were about to lose
our tempers and engage in a shootout with those on the radio. However,
we understood that it was a trap and we decided to wait.
The morning after, Maj Camilo Cienfuegos, a cloae friend from the early -
times of the guerrillas, stood before us. He asked us to turn over
command and remain under arrest. "What? It has been turned over since
early morning." Camilo was surprised. I explained to him how Fidel
Castro had called my second in command in the military district by
telephone and had put him in charge of the operation.
Cienfuegos, Missing
I was arrested and sent to a cell in E1 Morro in Havana, a very narrow
cell, where there was not even a hole in which to take care of one's
needs, no water, a punishment cell.
When I had been under those conditions for 5 days, Castro made the
people, in a huge gathering in front r~f ~he Presidential Palace, raise
their hand asking for my death. What had happened in Camaguey was
linked to other events to make the people believe that there was an
attempt at treason. The only "plot" was the resignation of a group of
officers when they learned of the dastardly deed that had been committed
against me.
, On 14 December 1959, at 1600 houra at the Infantry Division Theater in
Ciudad Libertad, former Columbia Barracks, the trial against Huber
Matos and another 19 officers from the Camaguey District began. The
case heard carries the number 340. An important witne8s, the legendary
Ma~ Camilo Cienfuegos, the inseparable companion of the main accueed,
could not attend. Camilo ha~ disapg~axed in a light aircraft during a
Camaguey-Havana flight on 17 November. He did nat have time to corrobor- ~
ate the statements against Matos, which a morning paper put in his mouth
on the very morning of his departure, The official version said that the
aircraft crashed as a result of a tropical storm. Castro himself
encountered serious difficulties in entering the trial room. From the
"jeep" he was driving, he had to threaten to use a machinegun to open a
path through the large group of soldiera loyal to Matos, who with bared
chests shouted at him: "Shoot here you q+ieer."
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The Tria1
CAMBIO 16: After refusing to testify with anything more than a terse ~
yes or no, you spoke in your defense for nearly 3 hours. However, the
apeech by Fidel Castro was to be decisive. Why do you think that the
Cuban leader took on the work of making the accueation at that time?
Huber Matos: Actually Castro directed the tr_ia1 completely. He selected
the members of the court from among his sworn followers. The chief of
his escort, for example, was one of thoae in charge of trying me, and he
had even hammered the people beforehand with a syetematic campaign, pre- ~
aenting me as "the blackguard who must be punished severely." However,
as if that were not enough, Castro als~ attended as the main witnese for
the prosecutiori and spend 7 hours sttack.ing me. Anyone who reads the
text of his speech will confirm that during all tfiat time he did not -
manage to provide a single proof.
Despite everything, even with such obvious irregularities as that of the
three individuals from the rear of the room, from among the drapcries
who came forward to testify, as if in a farce, the statement by the
chief of the armed forces, Raul Castro (he of the "dirty work"), the
publ~ic received my statemenC with applause. During my statement I said
that I was willing to give my life if by doing so the revolution re- -
turned to its original state, if the promises of Castro in the first
phase were kept. I spoke of that revolution that was going to give land
to the peasant, school to the children, houeing to the family, in the
words of Fidel: "a revolution as green as the palms." That was what
made the audience, mainly officers of the army selected by the authori-
ties, come over to my side.
If the court had handed down a sentence that same day, the decision would
have been "not guilty." But the trial war postponed to give it a
greater legal appearance. Actually, it was to giva Fidel time to pre-
pare his speec~h. When he spoke, the die had been cast, the verdict was
asaured. The aentez~ce was 20 years. AcCually, Caetro had already opted
for that sentencQ, hoping that during that time my life would end in
prison. ~
Later on I learned that on that occasion some of Castro's ministers,
close friends in the leadership of the 26 July Movement such as
Faustino Perez, Manolo Ray and some others, de:fended me against Fidel.
It is a miracle that I returned to prison alive, but such cases happen
and mine was one of them. I believe that up to the last minute Fidel
Castro thought of tearing off my head in one way or another. Interna-
tional support saved me. Although it is also probable that he may have
released me with the hope of having me shot somewhere. He does not worry
me.
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Sovietization
CAkIBIO 16: Then it caa be said that yours was the first Stalinist trial
~ since the victory of the revolution. .
" Huber Matas: I would eay that it was a typically fascist trial, although
unfortunately, Cuba is a nation depeudent on the Soviet Union. Caetro
is nothing more than a satrap, a representative oF Russian interests.
That ia why they had the chance to place nuclear rockets or missiles on
the island and they took them away after having discussed things with the
North Americans. More recently, when again there was talk about Soviet
troops in Cuba, they did not call on Castro to discuss things; things
were resolved only and exclusively between the Rusaians and the Yankees.
We Cubans are not the masters of government, we are not self-determined.
If Moscow did not subsidize Castro with millions of pesos daily, if it
did not arm him, if they did not give him petroleum, machinery, cereals...
the Castro regime would not have lasted a week. The Russians support
him but they also charge for it. The pretense of independence of the
island is an irony for which the Cuban people pRy with the miseriea
imposed. Cuba is a very important strategic base on the American scene,
_ in the panorama of the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
Gulag
During the 20 years spent in prison by this legendary "bearded one,"
~ who wanted a Cuban-style revolution fnr the island, he was in many of
the penal establ ishments of the tropical Gulag: La Cabana, el Principe
and Combinado de La Habana del Este. During all this time Matos was
always a recalcitrant prisoner and continuously received the visits of
Castro's assassins. During these visits, beatings alternated with
attempts to make him publicly apologize for his "counterrevolutionary
actions." Matos himself took a long time convincing himself that tor-
ture and murder went on in the Castro prisons. "Fidel was my brother,"
he says, "in my mind I could not accept that atrocities worse than those
of the times of ~atista were being committed."
Huber Matos: Around that time I had a visit every 3 or 4 months and
when my family told me that prisoners were being shot, bayonetted and
made to work like slaves on the Isle of Pines, and that Chis took place
every day, I did ~ot believe them until they brought more than 100
prisoners from the island to La Cabana on 29 May 1966. For some hours
they kept us together in the same section of the prison. It was enough.
When night came and they threw me o�nce more into a miserable cell, I
already had heard the stories from my comrades about the atrocities that
were being committed, the same ones my family had told me about. Today
we know how many blows, how many bayonets have been used to terrorize the
- prisoners, and we know the names of comrades who were murdered in the
prisons and those of many others who are only human wreckage.
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There are still many things not known outside Cuba. A prisoner is
rarely told "You are being puniahQd," in prison. Puniahment is imposed
on him in such a manner that it apFeare that the individual himeelf ie
responeible. They kept me naked for 13 months, without clothing, with-
out vieits, without medical care, without anything that could remind
anyone of the exiatence of a prisoner. All this becaus~ I resisted when
they changed my uniform. They wanted to give ua another one similar to
that of common prisoners. They attempted to take away from us the
classification of inen who fought for ideas, of prisoners of conscience.
Later on I spent more than 7 years without the right to receive my family
because I had refused to submit to the whims of the guard.s who wanted to
break our will. Sometimes they wanted us to remove our shirts during
visits~ other times, that we be naked, and if you accepted this you soon
found yourself oii all fours. So when the pack of thuga wc~uld come to my
cell with the story that they were going to search me, and I would tell
them to cut the stories and to go ahead with the beating, they would do
so immediately.
~AMBIO 16: In your letter dated ~0 October 1975 you wrote that you were '
convinced that you would spend the rest o.f your days behind bars. With ~
what state of mind did you face that black future?
Huber Matos: From the time they threw me into the Isle of Pines prison,
the jailers never ceased threatening me that I would not leave there
alive. In many ways they came to suggest to me that if ther~ were some
chan~.e of my liberation, if there were some circun~stance that would mean `
a change of government in Cuba, they had instructions to liquldate me.
I believe it was on 15 or 16 April 1961, in any case before the landing
at the Bay of Pigs on 17 April, an individual sent from Havana appeared.
He approached the entrance to the cell block where a group of us
prisoners were, and showing us a submachinegun, said: "There axe
reports of a landing of people from abroad and you know why I am here.
At any time that there is the possibility of an invasion here a~id of
their coming to rescue you, you go down." I believe it is also known that
during the October 1962 crisis the prison on the Isle of Pines wss mined
with dynamite. Several tons of exploaives were placed and they planned
to turn the entire area of the prison into a lake if things became
diffj.cult. ~
Then, in the cell~ they also tried to liquidate me. They gave me
beatings that could have easily ruptured my liver. But they had no luck.
I have some broken ribs and my left arm is damaged. But I survived.
CAMBIO 16: Why do you think Castro is releasing prisoners?
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Huber Matos: Because of~his intereat in obtaining American loan8 and
technology. Castro is a calculating, cold, u:tscrupulous person, and
surely he thinks that with the recent prieoner releases and by keepins
~ Huber Matos and otfier:prominent comrades alive, he can b ecome eligible
for American dollars. It is a busineas operation.
Anyway, ~hey are not releasing as many pris~ners as the Castro propaganda
says. It is a lie. In the various lists of pardons, which at times are
for 400 to 500 prisoners, there have been only a few of the "planted"
oaes, who are the ones who have been locked up the longest, those who are
in the poorest physical condition with their nervous system destroyed.
Those people remain in prison. There is preciaely where the problem lies.
Castro is seeking a way to visibly and very slowly release 3,600 prison-
~rs, leaving those who really need release tfie most still in his clutches.
When the first list of 400 prisoners pardcned appeared in December 1978,
over there in prison we examined the list. More than 100 of those on the
list had been released 2, 4, and up to 12 years before, although for the
purposes sought, they were carried as prisoners on the prison rolls.
Also sppearing on these first lists were "phantom" prisoners, people who
no one knew. They were propaganda prisoners.
On the other hand, there is a group of people who will never be released
and who are urgently in need of international solidarity. Among the more
than 500 "planted" ones there are four women, poor things, who have very
long sentences and who greatly need their freedom and suffer greatly.
There is a group taken from the Habana del Este prieon to that of
Boniato, who are serving life sentences.
CA1~I0 16: Silvio Rodriguez, gmong others...
Huber Matos: Yes. Silvio Rodriguez Barrientos is there, a good comrade,
a brother of mine for whose life I fear. I have revealed the case
because he is a person very closely identified with Hub er Matos and it
could b e that they will now take it ~ut on him because of the chargee I
have been making against Castro since my release. He has been a greatly
punished person because he has always resisted the jailers and thugs.
Moreover, he is a Catholic and that is a very serious thing there inaide.
He is a brave man.
This group at Boniato has been without medical care, on a etarvation diet
and without sun. All of them are people of great determination. They
have been transferred to that prison with the primary goal of destroying
or ~rush ing.th~m, but in any case to deprive them of the possibility of
_ release by pardon. Latest reports received say that they were on a hunger
strike and in a very serious condition. They are "planted" prisonera,
who do not compromise with communism. That is their only guilt and that
is the reason they are bein~ kept behind bara. That is why the Cuban
authorit ies describe them as terrorists.
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CAMBIO 16: Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo is also in this group.
Huber Matos: We are very good friends. We have been together more than
once in E1 Principe prison, in cell block number 23. He is a prisoner
who remaine "planted," in a position of etruggle, in total and open
confrontation with the regime~ and that ie why he will he one of the
ones who wtll not be easily released.
Moreover, they have it in for Menoyo because he revealed the scheme
bq the communist officials of the Ministry of Interior to oper_ the doors
of the prisons to the press. He rejected the farce in the interview he
had with several American newsmen and it was published.throughout the
world. He did not accept the dlackmail and he asked for the release of
all the prisoners and not individual pardons. We, 138 prisoners, made `
a much more detailed explanation than that of Menoyo on the reasons for
, re3ecting the dialog, but it was made known after his. We had diffi-
culties in having it brought outside. At any rate, what is important
is that in both of then were revealed the deals Castro had made with
his agents in exile in Latin America and Spain.
Huber Matos, one of the legends of the Sierra Maestra, the maii who
entered Havana on the "tank of victory" together with Fidel Castro and
Camilo Cienfuegos, the former commander of the Camaguey Military Region,
who considers himself the victim of communist infiltration into th2
Rebel Army, just as the president of the republic (Manuel Urrutia)
and the chief of the air force (Diaz Lanz) were before him, holds no
resentment against Fidel Castro, At 60 years-of-age, in the same Costa
Rica from where he went to ~oin the men of the guerrillas, he declarea:
"I believe that the meanness of Fidel Castro, his cowardliness and his -
abuses have left ~nothing in my mind and my heart but contempt, an
infinite contempt."
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~PRELA CLAIMS ILLEGAL REBEL STATIONS BROADCAST FROM FLORIDA
PA120201 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1631 GMT 11 Feb 80 PA
" [Article by Elmer Rodriguez]
[Text] Havana, 11 Feb (PL)--The deceit of the counterrevolutionary radio
stations broadcasting from U.S. territory to Cuba but which claim to be
broadcasting from some part in the island, has been completely revealed.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently confiscated several
transmit.ters operated by Cubans living in Miami, Florida.
The programs, allegedly broadcast from various parts of Cuba, were edited
in North America and some "unsuspecting" foreign correspondent, stationed -
in Havana, reported the matter as if it were true.
The U.S, authorities themselves emphatica].ly denied this report when they
closed down three illegal radio stations located in Florida. They did not
make any arrests however.
According to reports ham operators from the United States and other coun-
tries had protested that the illegal stations were interfering with their
broadcasting frequencies.
Although U.S, off icials announced the confiscation of radio equipment _
worth sevaral thousand dollars, they added that it was impossible to say
_ which of the three counterrevolutionary stations had been closed down.
A well-known revolutionary, of Cuban origin, admitted in Miami that the
programs, lasting some 30 or 40 minutes, were recorded at the offices of
. the Alfa 66 terrorist group which is located in Miami.
Their own statements reveal the deceit and farce of these counterrevolu-
tionary stations which claimed their information came from within Cuba.
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To broadcaat in the United States one must have a license from the I'ederal
� Communications Commission. These stations did not have this dociiment.
Although members of the Alfa 66 group and Radio Abdala (another illegal
radio station) said they will continue operating, U.S, officiald did not
reveal what wou~d be the consequences of this new vio.lation of the nation's
laws.
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CUBA
BRIEFS
REPRESSION, EXECUTIONS REPORTED--Conf idential reports from various Western
embassies in Havana confirm that an upswing in repression has taken place
in the wake of a cabinet reshuffle in December in Cuba. The reports
indicate that executions of military personnel by firing squads have
occurred and that pamphlets criticizing the hard economic times besetting
Cuba have appeared in Havana. [TextJ [Madrid CAMBIO 16 in Spanish 3 Feb 80
p 5]
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BRIEFSS
BANANA EXPORTING GROUP MEMBERSAIP--Santo Domingo, 23 Feb (PL)--The Dominican
Republic has become the fifth member of the multinaCional Banana Marketing
Corporation (COMUNBANA) at a time~when its exports are very low. Jesus
Hernandez, director of the Dominican Center for Export Development, and
Alfredo Orange, executive director of COMUNBANA, signed an agreement yester-
day formalizing the incorporation of the Caribbean country into that organi-
zation. The COMUNBANA, an enterprise created by the Union of Banana Export-
Countries in March 1977, also includea Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica and
Panama. Its r;oal is to protect the prices of the banana at international
markets which are still controlled by large corporations. The Dn--inican
Republic is 3oining COMUNBANA at a time when ita exports are very low.
~:sports dropped from $11 million per year over the past few years to a
little over $1 million. [Text) [PA242047 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2300 GMT -
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EL SALVADOR
OCLAE CLAIMS CAPTUIZE OF STUDENTS BY U.S. MARINES ~
PA021849 Havana PRELA in Spanish 0030 GMT 2 Feb 80 PA
[TextJ Havana, 1 Feb (PL)--The Continental Organization of Latin American
Students (OCLAE) has reported the kidnapping of Salvadoran University
students Jose Humberto Mejia and Franciso Arnulfo Ventura. ~
In a press bulletin released here tod~~y, the OCLAE indicated that the two
youths were captured during a~oint operation of the U.S. Marines who guard
the U.S. Embassy and Salvadoran repressive forces.
It stressed that the capture occurred a few hours after the mass popular
demonstration on 22 January when more than 20 people were killed and 100
were wounded. ~
The OCLAE condemned the reactionary offensive of the Salvadoran tyranny
and reiterated the Latin American students' solidarity with the Salvadoran
people.
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_ EL SALVADOR
INTERVIEWED LP-28 LEADER SEEKS 'AUTHENTIC REVOLUTION'
- PA151634 Rome IPS in Spanish 0355 G1KP 15 Feb 80 PA
[Interview with Marisol Galindo, leader of the 28 February Peoples Leagues
of E1 Salvador by Rafael Cribari]
[Text] Panama City, 14 Feb (IPS)--Shortly before being arrested by the
Panamanian National Guard, Marisol Galindo, a member of the political com-
mittee of the Salvadoran 28 February Peoples Leagues [LP-28], told IPS that
"our people's struggle does not want a reformist solution bur rather an
authentic revolution,"
The LP-28 leader said yeaterday's occupation of the Panamanian Embasay by
the LP-28 "is an act in repudiation of the represaive and massacring policy
of the junta which rules E1 Salvador."
Galindo and five other LP-28 leaders who were visiting Panama to make known
the Salvadoran situation were detained by the national guard after the
Panamanian Embassy in E1 Salvador was occupied.
She charged that "many companeros died in the actiona against the Christian
Democratic headquarters occupied by our activists and in the attack against
a student demonstration on 12 February." She added, "We have not been able
to recover their bodies,"
, According to Galindo, witnesses saw that "our dying militants were brutally
taken to the garrisons of the repressive forces" during thoae actions.
She said the LP-28 is also "denouncing the brutal assas~sination of Julio
Salinas, a member of the poli.tical committee of the LP-28, an electrician
and a labor leader who was killed by the army on 12 February."
Referring to her country's situation, Galindo believes that reformism is
not the alternative and that the only solution for the country is "an suthen-
tic revolution which must be antioligarchic and anti-imperialist."
Questioned about the nature of the Salvadoran Armed Forces, the main parti-
cipants in the current government, the LP-28 leader indicated that "we
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recegnize that there is a small group of young progressive officers in the
army." But she quickly added that "this is a small group and most of the
armed forces and the officers in command are totally fasciat."
Galindo also eaid that "our fierce struggle for freedom needs the militant
international solidarity of the democratic governments and peoples who
- understand that our cause is just."
In this regard, she stressed the Panamanian people's solidarity with the
Salvadoran revolutionary organizations. She noted that the occupation of
the embassy "was never against the Panamanian Government and people whom
we support."
Questioned about the outlook for her country, Galindo expressed optimism,
although she warned that once imperialism exhausts the reforming plan of
the junta it will try through all means to intervene to prevent the people's
victory. "We are determined to struggle as much as is necessary but we
need the fratarnal help of all peoples to achieve freedom," she added.
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HONDURAS _
BRIEFS '
NEWSMEN DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT PRESSURES--San Jose, 9 Feb (PL)--The Honduran
Foreign Correspondents Association today denounced the systematic pressure
the military regime exerta on foreign newsmen. According to a doctiment re-
leased by this organization, three of its members have been slandered by
government press secretary Herman Allan Padgett because they refused to
cooperate with the maneuvers of Gen Policarpo Paz Garcia's regime. The
association also denounces administrative corruption and social injustice,
as well as the abuses committed against the citizens, along with the govern-
_ ment's lack of seriousness and its inability to resolve the country's ser-
ious problems. "All of this helps shape the country's image abroad," the
document affirms. The document demands that Padgett present evidence to
back his charges, which it terma "defamatory and slanderous." [Text]
[PA101712 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2340 GMT 9 Feb 80 PA]
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JAMAICA
FOREIGN RELATIONS MINISTER URGES U.S. NONINTERFERENCE IN CARIBBEAN
PA071630 Havana PRELA in English 1600 GMT 7 Feb 80 PA
LArLicle by Jorge Armendariz7
- [Text] Cozumel, Mexico, Feb 7(PL)--Jamaica demanded that the United States
respect the region of the Caribbean as a zone of peace, free from all kinds
of foreign interference.
The mi*~ister of foreign relations of Jamaica, Percival James Peterson, inter-
viewed on this Mexican island, rejected categorically U.S. offers of military
aid in tne Caribbean due to Cuba's alleged geopolitical and military movements
in the zone .
Peterson said that recent U.S. press reports on the true situation in the
Caribbean form part of a dell.berate campaign of manipulation and misunder-
standing aimed at deforming Caribbean reality.
"The people of the Caribbean have the right to determine their own future and
any threat which violates this principle is strongly rejected by Jamaica,"
Peterson emphasized.
The statements of the Jamaican foreign minister constituted a firm rejection
of reports appearing in the U.S. publication NEW DAY, to the effect that the
government of President James Carter is planning to use all its influence
to oust Jamaican Pri.me Minister Michael Manley from his post due to his
independent foreign policy.
Peterson, who accompanied Prime Minister Manley on an official five-hour
visit to this Caribbean island, confirmed that U.S. and Jamaican function-
aries met recently in Miami, Florida, to analyze the political situation
of the Caribbean nation.
"It was just a meeting to air problems, but at no time did the U.S. officials
make threats. If this should have occurred, the Jamaican Government would
have reacted strongly," the foreign minister stressed.
Jamaica will maintain unchanged its independent position both in questions
of domestic and foreign policy, Peterson underlined.
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JAMAICA
CARICOM COUrTTRIES ISSUE COMMUNIQUE
PA151347 Havana PRyLA in Spanish 2135 GMT 10 Feb 80 PA
[Article by Frank GonzalezJ
[Text] Kingston, 10 Feb (PL)--The fifth foreign ministers meeting of the
Caribbean Common Market [CARICOM] expressed its support of the Jamaican
Government in its negotiations with the IMF.
The declaration is included in the final communique released last night in
Castries, Santa Lucia capital, site of the conference.
Jamaica presented before the rest of the CARICOM member countries its re~ec-
tion of the conditions demanded by the IMF to grant an extension of the
loan granted to this country last year.
The IMF demanded a$150 million budget cut while Jamaica agreed to reduce
the budget by only $100 million in order to protect social benefit programs
and to avoid massive lay-offs.
The foreign ministers also came out in favor of strengthening the CARICOM
mechanisms and agreed that ideological pluralism is an irreversible fact
in the region.
They admitted the negative effects caused by the increasing petroleum prices
on their national economies which are also affected by the inflation imported
from industrialized countries.
The foreign ministers expressed their support of Belize's right to independ-
ence and condemned Guatemala's expansionist attitude despite the overwhelm-
ing support giuen to the people of Belize on regional and international -
levels.
With respect to South Africa, they asked the British Government to comply -
strictly with the agreements on Zimbabwe, especially regarding the holding
of free elections.
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The co~nunique asks Great Britain to guarantee the withdrawal of South
African troops and personnel, and to abstain from using Rhodesians and
the so-called "auxiliary forces" within Zimbabwe.
They reasserted their support of the peop~e of Namibj.a led by its~legitimate
representative, SWAPO, in ite just atruggle for independence.
In regards to the Midd?e East, they reasserted their support of the Palestine
people and deplored the continued aggressive actions of Israel and its oc-
cupation of Arab territories.
In discussing the problems of inercenaries, they said that the CARICOM coun-
tries should, on their own initiative, consider passing laws on the matter.
The foreign ministers also said that the positions of the English-speaking
Caribbean countries s~tould be duly expressed at international forums and.
that their opinions be taken in consideration by the Latin American group
in drafting their positions.
The conference lasted 3 days during which it was agreed to hold the next
congress in Saint George's, capital of Grenada.
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NICARAGUA
INTERIOR MINISTRY HITS 'AP' FOR ALLEGING PRISONER ABUSES
PA012333 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2300 GMT 1 Feb 80 PA
[Text] Managua, 1 Feb (PL)--The Nicaraguan Interior Ministry has denouaced
a campaign carried out by the Associated Press [AP] on alleged abuses against
political prisoners in Nicaragua. .
An official communique issued here noted that the lies disseminated by AP
are based on statements by the organization "Freedom House," also American
and directed by defenders of the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship.
The document reaffirms the absolute respect that Nicaragua has been demon-
strating toward the political prisoners, most of whom are Somozist assassins
and counterrevolutionaries who committed crimes against the Nicaraguan people.
After recalling that the American organization in question never denounced
the abuses of the tyranny overthrown by the people, the Interior Ministry
called the attention of the international public to the anti-Nicaraguan
_ propaganda being carried out by the AP News Agency.
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NICARAGUA
BRIEFS
CUBAN DOCTORS ARRIVE--Managua, 9 Feb (PL)--A contingent of�19 Cuban doctors
arrived at Augusto Cesar Sandino International Airport here today to ~oxn -
thejr country's internationalist brigade, which includes over 200 special-
ists. The new contingent, made up of specialists in various areas of inedi- '
, cine, will leave immediately for the town of Siuna, in Z~laya, the country's
targest department, on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. The Atl