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Latin America Re ort
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JPRS L/10102
6 November 1981
LATIN AMERICA REPORT
(FOUO 2 6/8 Z )
CONTENTS
COUNTRY SECTION
CtTBA
'PRELA' Comments on Causes for Attack on Sadat
(Mary Simon; PRELA, 6 Oct 81) 1
- Wounded Ambassador to Egqpt Comments on Attack
(Rafa~l Borges; PRELA, 10 Oct S1). 2
; Foreign Trade Minister Carbisas Visits Bulgaria �
, (Miguel Lozano; PRELA, 28 Sep 81) 4
I U.S, Military M~~euvers in Caribbean Scored
~ (Ivonne Pastor Parra; PRELA, 11 Oct 81) 6
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~ CIA Accused of Operating Subversive Camps in Honduras
(Ana LP~nor Diaz; PRELA, 15 Oct S1) 8
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~ HONDURA5
U.S., Honduras Accused in Plot Against Rebels
(PREi.A, 22 Sep 81) 10
' GUA'1'EMALA
Briefs
Bomb Explosions 11
NICARAGUA
Tomas Bor.ge Thanks Lopez Partillo for Support
(Jorge Timossi; PRELA, 24 Sep 81) 12
Interview With Members of Anti-Imperialist Tribunal
(Eloy Concepcion; PRELA, 20 Sep 81) 14
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'PRELA' COMMENTS ON CAUSES FOR ATTACK ON SADAT
PA070340 Havana PRELA ir. Spanish 1602 GMT 6 Oct 81
[Commentary by Mary Simon]
[Excerpt] The attack today on Anwar al-Sadat confirms the existence c~f an ample
opposition movement to the policy of submission begun by thE Egyptian President
when he recognized the Zionist state in 1977.
It was not by chance that "victory day" cerved a group of Egyptian soldiers to
attack thz man, wiio after having arrogated the succession of Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir,
led the country to a strategic military all.iance with the United States and
- Israel.
The traditional 6 October parade commemorating bne of the most outstanding :noments
in Egypt's history, when it supported the Arab and Palestine cause and confronted
the Zionists had this year as a"main attraction" an exhibit3on of some of the
modern Pquipment supplied by Washington to facilitate Cairo's military presence
in the region.
Therefore, paradaxically, it was from among the U.S. M60A3 tanks on parade, that
the attacking military group appeared,
Today's events have special importance following a month of extreme repression
against the opposition forces in Egypt, due to marked religious differences.
In August al-Sadat accused the church hierarchy, and especially the Orthodox Copt
Church, of attacking national stability.
This accusation provoked demonstrations on 3 August in Cairo, ahere thoesands of
Muslim, Coptic demonstrators and oppos~~ion leaders, marched in the streets
. protesting the Camp David policy and the increased cost of living.
The repression which rapidly extended to the leadership of the Socialist Labor
Party, the National Progressive Unionist Party, newsmen, lawyers and other sectors
~pp~sed to the presidential line, caused the arrest of over 5,000 persons.
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WOUNDED AI~BASSADOR TO EGYPT Ca1NN1ENTS ON ATTACK
PA102312 Havana PRELA in English 2010 GMT 10 Oct 81
_ [By Rafael Borges]
[Text] Ber.l_in, 11 Oct (PL)--The Cuban ambassador to Caira, Domingo Garcia, wounded
in the shoulder during the attack in which Anwar al-Sadat was mortally saounded, stated
that this year's parade for the fourth Arab-Israeli war took place in the middle of
extreme security measures.
Gsrcia, who was brought here to the hospital, where he is recovering, agreed to give
PRENSA LATINA details of the happenings.
- The Cuban official said that this year, thP adoptiQn of exceptio_:al precautions were
_ noted in the preparations for that commemoration.
He manifestea that this year the heads of diplomatic missions when attendi~.ng such
ceremonies were not only given the traditional pass and the sticker for ~heir autos,
but there was a triple control of their documents, before tl~ey were able to go up
to the reviewing stand.
Also, on the stairs leading to the reviewing stand, in the diplomats wing, their
photographic cameras were inspected and the shutters released.
This detail, he stated, was commented with other colleagues because not only cameras
were inspected, but cases containing binoculars or other ob~ects where~-.a weapon
could be concealed.
The adoption of the measures mentioned by me, he went on, was also noted at the be-
ginning o� the ceremony itself, in which al-Sadat should turn, salute the troop~,
read the Koran and the defense minister would deliver his speech.
Apart from this, the 6 October parade, after the traditional salute to those who
feel in that war, opened witl~ some innovations consisting in the intervention of
paratroopers, demonstration of assault positions in front of the reviewing stand and
the display of the most recent armaments acquired by Egypt in the United States.
As to the events that cost the life of al-Sadat, Ambassador Ga~rcia related that
practically in the last third of the parade, and when acrobatic avaiation exercises
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had begun, two small explosions were heard among the deafening noice of the turbine
of one of the aircraft that was flying very law.
He said that in that instant he observed a truck, with a 130-mm cannon in the rear.,
halt and three or four men leaped off, who Apened f3re on the reviewing stand.
Right when feeling an explosion, he stated, it seemed to me that I~was wounded and
I felt myself falling to the floor, acbion that I immediately contXOlled myself.
There, he went on, in those conditxons I was able to verify that I had been hit in
the shoulder, because I felt that my forearm was dislocated from the upper joint.
- In this situation-, and in the middle of great confusion in which shouts mentioning
al-Sadat were heard, I was able to pull myself together and aided by the Argentine
ambassador left in search of an automobile that would takQ me to a medical aid cen-
- ter.
In those circumstances, Garcia said, I was taken to the hbspital by the Finnish am-
bassador in his car. In that hospital, 3 kilometers away from Cairo, ~.e continued,
I underwent my first operation.
Thanks to the kindness of the comrad~s in the German Bemocratic Republic Embas~y in
that capital, I was taken from the Cairo hospital to Berlin in an "Interflug" flight,
he stated.
Garcia estimates that the shooting, which resulted in the death of al-Sadat and he
himself being wounded, lasted approximately 42 seconds, and that one of the per-
petrators of the attack, numbered at four, was killed and the rest taken prisoners.
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FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER CARBZSAS VISITS BULGARIA
PA282012 Havana PRELA in English 1856 GMT 28 Sep 81
[Report by Miguel Lozano]
[Text] Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 29 Sep (PL)--Cuba will sign contracts for 1982 with
Bulgarian f xrms for goods valued at 50-80 milZion roubles during the Plnvdiv
international fair, announced Cuban Foreign Trade Minia~er Ricardo Cabrisas.
Cabrisas underlined in an interview granted to PRENSA LATINA the particular
importance of Cuba's participation in the Plovdiv fair, that is giving it the
opportunity to appreciate Bulgaria's economic boom. It also faci].itates bilateral
integration in some sectors in accordance with medium and long-term plans.
On the other hand, he added, Cuba's presence permits the results of socialist
collaboration related to the grawth of new export areas in the Cuban market to be
exhibited.
The high-ranking Cuban official added that this permits the promotion of negotia-
tions between Cuban foreign trade campanies and Bulgarian firms and he averred
that the advanced state of these conversations would allow their conclusion and
signing.
Cabrisas also referred to the present state of trade relations with Bulgaria and
explained that they are going ahead in accorda~~ce with the plans accorded between
the top leaders of the two countries, Fidel Castro and (?Zhivkov).
Exchange of goods agreement for the 198'-85 period and the annual agreement for
bilateral trads were already signed in 1980, and talks for the singing of the 1982
trade agreement, that envisions Bulgaria's growing participation in different
- Cuban ecanomic,industrial sectors, will be started shortly.
Earlier Cabrisas conversed with the president of the Council of State and general
secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Todor Zhivkov, during the visit made
by the Bulgarian leader to the Cuban pavilion.
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_ Zfiivkov asked about the present state of the industrial plants built or under
construction in Cuba with Bulgarian advice and technology and received a satis-
factory an~wer from Cabrisas, who praised the quaiity of the work of the technicians
in charge of putting the works into operation.
During his stay in Plovdiv, the G~ban minister also met with the vice president
of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov.
During the meeting bo~th sides evaluated positively the present development and
prospects of the economic relations between the two countries.
The talks were attended by the minister of foreign trade of ~ulgaria, Khristo
Khristov; the presidents of the chambers of commerce of Cuba and Bulgaria; Jose
Diaz Mirabal and Peter Rusev, as well as the Cuban ambassador to Bulgaria, Jose
Alvarez Bravo.
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~ ~J . S. MII,ITARY MANEWERS IN CARIBBEAN SCORED
PA120332 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2141 GMT ~1 Oct 81
- [Article by Ivonne Pastor Parra of PRENSA LATINA]
[TextJ The aggressive h awk view '81 military maneuvers that the United States
is jointly carrying out with Honduras in the Cariu~ean Sea are another provocation
against Cuba and a threat to Nicaragua and the liberation movements in Central
America.
- The U.S. news agency, United Press International, UPI, reported that the maneuvers,
which began 2 days ago in the Caribbean coasts of Honduras, are aimed at "dis-
covering on the high seas and seizing arms that Cuba is shipping to Central
America."
In the meantime, U.S. Army Col Mark Richards, spokesman for U.S. Army Southern
Command Information Service in the Panama Canal zone, said that the hawk view
maneuvers in the Caribbeax~ h~3ve nothing to do wi~h Nicaragua.
Th~ U.S. army officer said that the Honduran armed forces needs to practice "how
to take hypothetical enemies by surprise," and that "the United States will teach
them how to do it."
Observers are saying that since the U.S. Government increased its military inter-
vention in E1 Salvador by sending green berets, specialists in the art of killing,
" it has not stopped referring to alleged Cuban intervention in Central America.
Alexander Haig, U.S. secretary of state, has said on many occasions that the
White House is studying a series of actions against Cuba, among them, a military
blockade of the island.
ThP observers say that the United States could take advantage of the hawk view
'81 maneuvers to set up a permar~ent air force and navy base on the Caribbean
coast of Central America, to ~omplement its aggressive strategy.
They say that U.S. President Ronald Reagan, using as pretext an action to stop
the exodus of Haitian refugees to the United States, running away from Duvalier's
dictatorship, has prdered the U.S. Navy to patrol the windward passage, near the
Cuban coast and Guantanamo's navy base, in Cuban territory, illegally occupied
by the United States.
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The observers recall that the U.S. Gcvernment, referring to the alleged presence
of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba, set up in Key West, Florida, an assault
military command for the Caribbean, located 90 miles from Cuban territory.
Afterwards, the observers added, Washington will set up a rapid deployment
command in Tampa, Florida, which controls the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and
, its passage to the Caribbean Sea.
Further on, they say that in order to support this military strategy against
Cuba, the CIA established a base on Swan Island, located near the Cuban coast.
They also say that the United States has incr~ased its military units in the
Caribbean and also the military maneuvers in the zone, such as the ocean view
operation which was to practice an invasion of Grenada to be carried out from
Vieques Island, as well as a similar military operation against Cuba.
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CIA ACCUSED OF OPERATING SUBVERSIVE CAMPS IN HONDURAS
PA152041 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1454 GMT 15 Oct 81
[Article by Ana Leonor Diaz]
[Text] Havana, 15 Oct (PL)--The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] operates
seven counterrevolutionary camps in Honduras from which to stage aggress~ons
against Nicaragua.
This charge was leveled in Havana by Venezuelan journalist Freddy Balzan, executive
secretary af the Central American Anti-Imperialist Tribunal, which sat in Managua
at the end of September.
Balzan said that according to evidence submitted at the tribunal, which is composed
of distinguished intellectuals and personalities of the region, Steadlman Fagoth
heads these groups. At one time Fagoth was ,leader of the Nicaraguan Misurasata
Indian Organization.
Fagoth was arrested in Nicaragua last year for staging counterrevolutionary
activities, but was later releas~ed when he changed his attitude publicly and
before the press.
Balzan added that according to the charges brought before the tribunal by several
of Fagoth's former followers, he then immediately fled to Hon~uras, breaking
his promise to the Sandinista authorities.
In the Honduran city of Puerto Lempira, 50 kms from the Nicaraguan border~ Fagoth
set up the seven counterrevolutionary bases using CIA financing.
The continuation of the tribunals' work, entrusted to a permanent committee led
~ by Nicaraguan journalist Xavier Chamorro, began today in every Central American
country with the collection of signatures for a~ accusation on acts of U.S. inter-
ference in the region, which will be sent to the United Nations.
U.S. aggression in Central America, Balzan said, consists of threats of aggression
against Nicaragua with the recent "hawk view" military maneuvers, support for
counterrevolutionary gangs in Honduras and pressures against the Sandinibt govern-
ment.
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He added that in Costa Rica it involves economic blackmail from Washingtc~n. In
Panama, it is the nonfulfillment of the car~al treaties. There is a15o U.S.
military assistance for the regimes of Guatemala, E1 Salvador and Honduras.
The Central American An~i-Imperia~ist Tribunal, which will meet again in Panama
at the beginning of 1982, began publishing the magazine "SOBE~ZANIA" today to
, denounce U.S. intervention in the region and in other countries of Latin America.
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U.S., HONDURAS !~CCUSED IN PLOT AGAINST R~BELS

_ PA222119 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1421 GMT 22 Sep 81
[Excerpts] San Jose, 22 Sep (PL)--Several Honduran and U.S. officials were named
as the masterminds of a region-wide counterrevolutionary plan based in Honduras.
Spokesmen for the Honduran coordinating board of solidarity with the Salvadoran
people charged that the main targets of the plan are the FSLN in Nicaragua and
the guerrilla movements in E1 Salvador and Guatemala.
The Agencia lndependiente de Prensa (AIP) reported that high Honduran milit3ry
officers, an official of the U.S. Emb assy in Tegucigalp a, and a considerable
- number of "green berets" are involved in the pro~ect.
According to the press agency, Crescencio Arcos, head of the United States Inter-
national Communications Agency (USICA) in Honduras, is one of the directors of
the plan against the peoples of lVicaragua, E1 Salvador, and Guatemala.
_ The press agency says that Capt Michael Scheehar, a West Point graduate, and
green beret Sgt David Thornton and Roberto Lopez, are also involved in those
- activities.
Several members of the national Department of Investigations (DIN), such as
Adonis Carranza, Guillermo Duron, Edilberto Marquez, together with Soaozist
Cesar Torre and the Cuban-born mercenary Mario Fumero, were mentioned as being
- responsible for the activities the CIA is coordinating in Honduras. .
Honduran Capt Miguel Angel Moya, military commander of La Virtud on the border
with E1 Salvador, where hundreds of Salvadoran refugees have fled, is also par-
ticipating in the plan along with former Somozist Col Carlos Rodriguez.
According to AIP, the activities against the Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and Guatemalan
revolutionaries include military actions, kidnapping, and espionage.
At the same time, it was reported that 200 Puerto Rican mercenaries, trained by
the Americans, are stationed in Honduras.
The milj.tary-Christian Democratic jun ta of E1 Salvador is planning to cede to
Honduras the "pockets" in dispute along the border in the Salvadoran departments
of Chalatenango and Cabanas.
The report claims that this action by the ~unta is supported by Washington to
allow the Honduran army and mercenaries to attack areas where the Salvadoran
guerrillas operate.
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BRIEFS
BOMB ~XPLOSIONS--San Jose, 15 Oct (PL)--High--power bombs have exploded in the
offices of the Army Bank and Military Welfare Fund located 100 meters from the
presidential palace in Guatemala City, it was learned here. The bomb wl~ich
exploded in the Army Bank caused extensive damage, principally on the fir.st
floor. It also destroyed part of a supermarket, causing an estimated $500,000
_ damage. Eight other businesses in the vicinity were also damaged, as was the
national palace. Total damage is estimated at approximately $2 million, according
to Central American radio stations. Another bomb exploded near the air force
and honor guard installations, which is one of the main headquarters, in zones
1Q and 13 of Guatemala City,~ a district where many soldiers live. [Text]
[PA171720 Havana PRELA :i.n Spanish 0234 GMT 16 Oct 81]
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TOMAS BORGE THANKS LOPEZ PORTILLO FOR SUPPORT
PA250254 Havana PRELA in Spanish 0230 GMT 24 Sep 81
[Article by Jorge Timossi]
[TextJ Mexico City, 23 Sep (PL)--Commander Tomas Borge, FSLN national directorate
member and interior minister, said today that the upcoming U.S.-Honduran maneuvers
are a threat to peace in Central America.
Borge arrived here this afternoon heading a delegation that includes Welfare
Minister Lea Guido and Education Minister Ernesto Cardenal.
Adolfo Diaz Lacayo, Nicaraguan ambassador to Mexico, welcomed the delegation ~t
the airport. Tomas Borge is her~ to receive an honorary doctorate degree from
the University of Puebla.
In statements at the airport, Borge stressed the need to find a political solution
to the Salvadoran drama that will be in accord with the interests of the people.
- He said that the French-TZexican joint declaration of August, which he said was
_ both unifying and respectful of the Salvadoran people's rights to self-determina-
tion, contained the primary foundatians for a solution.
Borge said that Nicaragua has always stressed the need for a peaceful solution
to the Salvadoran conflict, but the United States has not shown any willingness
to f ind a solution.
- He also referred, when asked bv Mexican reporters, to the U.S. Government's can-
cellation of a$7 million loan. He said that Nicaragua is conducting successful
dealings with other nations.
He recalled that Libya recently gr.ante~ loans to Nicaragua and that other countries
had already promised to grant (?open) financing and long-term loans.
The Sandinist leader said that the establishment of a U.S. military base in the
- Gulf of Fonseca is illegal and that Nicaragua's approval is needed to establish
such a base, noting that Nicaragua "will never grant it."
Referring to the joint U.S.-Honduxan maneuvers to be held saon, he said that "now
_ is a time for talks and not for cenfrontations."
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He warned that "peace in Central America cannot be reached through force."
He was asked if the Sandinist armed forces are prepared to face a possible inva-
~ sion by Somozist groups training in Honduras and the United States.
Borge said: "If they come to Nicaragua they will simply get what they deserve."
At the end of his statements, Tomas Borge thanked ~he Mexican Government and
people for their warm welcome and expressed the Nicaraguan Government and people's
respect for President Lopez Portillo's international stand on the Central American
and Caribbean issues.
The Nicaraguan delegation, which will be here until Friday, also met this after-
noon with Javier Garcia Paniagua, president of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party.
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INTERVIEW WITH MEMBERS OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST TRIBUNAL
PA202035 Havana PRELA in English 1915 GMT 20 Sep 81
[Article by special :.orrespondent Eloy Concepcion]
[Text] Managua 21 Sep (PL)--The Central American Anti-Imperialist Tribunal that
opens here today will serve to condemn United States intervention in the area.
The watchword of the event is a statement by murdered Salvadoran Ar~hbishop Oscar
Arnulfo Romero:. "No to the United States intention of determining the future of
the peoples."
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The tribunal of outstanding regional intellectuals will meet through 23 September,
with observers and guests from 12 Latin American countries.
The or~anizing committee confirmed the support of outstanding personalities such
as writer Mario Benedetti, and Cuernavaca (Mexico) Archbishop Sergi~ Mendez Arceo,
who voiced solidarity with the patriotic postulates of the tribunal in response
- to U.S. aggression in Lhe area.
The tribunal will name its executive committee and assess the prime goals to be
carried out by the ~op anti-imperialist investigation, denunciation and combat
organization in Central America.
Some people compare the body to the Russell Tribunal, which conducted warcrimes
trials in the case of the U.S. war against Vietnam. PRENSA LATINA interviewed
Nicaraguan members of the organizing committee.
Mariano Fiallos, rector of the Autonomous University of Nicaragua, said that the
"tribunal will have great importance for this country since a group of outstanding
intellectuals and palitical. figures will denounce the maneuvers by the United
States in the world, esp~cially in Central America.
- "Those maneuvers are designed to neutralize and, if possible, change the orienta-
tion of the Nicaraguan process, its government systems its independence, to
subject it once again to a situation of dependency, such as existed prior to the
Sandinista victory."
For his part, Priest Uriel Molina stressed that the tribunal will compile all the
information on the destabilization campaign against Nicaragua.
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"For Christians, the existence af the tribunal and being able to form part of it
- is a vital questi~n, in order to implement the task that the church must assume
in this historic movemen; for Nicaragua."
Javier ~hamorro, editor of EL NUEVO DIARIO, declared that the tribunal will serve
to strengthen the Nicaraguan process internally and to provide more thorough
knowledge on the actions of the CIA in Central America, especially in Nicaragua,
in its endeavor to destabilize and change this irrevers;~le revolution." [quota-
tion mark as rec~ived]
He denounced t~e sending of U.S. arms to the Salvadoran junta and recalled how
the Nicaraguan combatants during tr~e liberation war took from the Somoza National
Guard the weapons to be used for victory against the tyranny.
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