JPRS ID: 10231 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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31 December 1981 .
Latin /~rreri~a Re ort
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JPRS L/10231
31 December 1981
LATIV AMERICA REPORT
(FOUO 29/81)
CONTENTS
COUNTR.Y SECTIOI3
INTERNp.TIONAL AFFAIRS ~
Tirado Lopez Addresses Agrarian Leaders~ Meeting
(PRELA, 5 Dec 81) 1
CJBA
Castro Message to UN Support Palastinians
(PREI,A, 29 Nov 81) 2
- U.S. Aggressive P~licies Denounced
(PRE~:A, 24 Nov $1) 1~
EL SALVADOR
Moral~~s Ehrlich Bonn Statement Reported
(PRELA, 28 Nov 81~ ........................e............... 5
- GUATL'MALA
Briei's
~ More Bod'ie~~Found 7
Argentine Newsman Reportedly Arrested 7
Peoples Front Delegation Visits Mexico 7
idICARAGUA
- Ortega Sends Condolence Letter to Fidel Castro
- (PRELA, 6 Dec 81) 8
UFNEZUELA
Police Dismantle Subversive Group, Seize Arsenal
(PRELA, 28 Nov 81) 9
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Armed Men Captured Near Pal.o N~gro Air Base
(PRELA, 16 Dec 81) .........................o............... 11
Brief s
Cuba Not Agains~t Hijacking Agreement 12
Student-Police Clashes 12
CUTV Labor Qongress 13
Government Answers Iraqi Protest Note 13
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TIRADO LOPEZ ADDRESSES AGRARIAN LEADERS' MEETING
PA061705 Havana PR.ELA in Spanish 0215 GMT 5 Dec 81
[Text] Managua, 4 Dec (PL)--Victor Tirado Lopez, commander of the re~.~olution, today
urged a11 agrarian leaders of Latin Amertca and the Caribbean to strengthen their
unity and solidarity with Nicaragua and Cuba.
In a speech delivered at the opening session of the third meeting of Latin .American
and Caribbean rural work~rs organizations, Tirado pointed out the importance of
, joining forces in facing the threat of U.S. aggression.
At the opening session, Julio Bermudez, a Panamanian who is president of the (?co-
ordinating commission), said that the meeting provided a good opportunity to analyze
the agricultural sector's experience, the workers' difficult conditions particularly.
~ The peasant leadexs held prior meetings in San Jose, Costa Rica and in Ha.vana, Cu'aa.
Rene Penalver, secretary general of the Cuban Agricultural and Livestock Wo~kers
� Union, was among the speakers at the first meeting.
The representative of 342,OQ0 (?members) of this organization said that t~e meeting
is being held at a time of tension, when the deafening sounds of imperialist
language" are threatening the peoplea~of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Penalver said that Nicaragua and Cuba have been the target of a continuous campaign
of lies, orchestrated by the United Statea "to ~ustify a possible military aggres-
sion and intervention in E1 Salvador." �
After stating that the Cuban revolution has ridiculed all of the "baseless and
fictional statements" regarding the alleged deployment of troops to E1 Salvador,
he said that his country's people do not fear any threat and are prepared to defend
themselves.
' Ar.alyzing the cr3tical situation of the peasants in the area, he said that "only
a few of the agrarian reforms applied in the ma~or part of our America have definite-
1y solved the agrarian problems."
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' CASTxO MES5AGE TO UN SUPPORT PALESTINIANS
- PA29I844 Havana PkELA in Spanish 1726 GMT 29 Nov 81
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[TextJ Havana, 29 Nov (PL)--President Fidel Castro sent a~ne~~;,ge to UN
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim on the occasion of the International Day of
Solidarity iJith the Palestinian People.
' The text of the message is as follows:
"In the name of the Cuban Government and people, I wish to express our warm
greetings to the people of Palestine and to thei.r sole legitimate representa-
tive, the PLO, on the occas ion of the International Day nf ."~lidarity With
th~ Yalestinian Peopie. '
"On this memor:ible day, I want to reiterate that the Cuban people, together
with all of the warl~'s progressive forces, cont3nue to offer their support
to and f.ull so'.idarity ~~ith the just struggle of the heroic Palestinian people.
. "The celebration cf 29 No~ember as the International Day of Solidarity With
~h e Pales~inian People res~~nds t~ th.a wish of the UN General Assembly,
expr~ssed in its resolu*_icn No 23/40, a:~d prdves that the inteznational
communit}~ is convinced that oppression has been perpetrated against the peop~e
of Pa].F~tine sin~e 194~i, with the division of Palestinian territory into two
~tates, establ;shed in Resolution No 181 (II), and the dispers3on 3mposed on
- the Pal.estinian people since that division.
"Since its foundation, the nonaligned movement, together with the United Nations
and other international organizations and forums, the cause of the long-suffering
people of Palestine. [sentence as received]
"Repcated. declarations and resolutions insist that the Palestine 3ssue is the
cau5e of conflict ir. the Middle East, estalilish the outlines for a just and last-
ing peace in that explosivz region and denounce and strongly condemn the
aggressive and expansionist nature of Zionism, unconditionally suppor~ed by
imperial.ism, aad a permanent threat to international peace and security.
_ "In this context, Che agreements of the sixth summit of the nonaligned movement,
hel.d in Havana in September 1979, as well as subsequent nonaligned de~larations
issue~ at the New Delhi m~.nis,ers conference ~nd at the recent ministers plenum
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in New York, daily gain more impact in their condemnation of the Camp David
agr~ements and the Egyptian-Israeli treaty as reflecting a policy des3gned
to further reinforce the positions of the Zionist regime and to protect the
U.S. interests in the area, directl;y attacking the most fundamental rights
~ of Arab peoples, particularly those of the Palestinian Arab people.
"Cuba, along with the world's progressive forces and nations, believes that an
end should be put to the war of extermination against the Palestinian people
and that greater respect for ~nd fulf illment of the decisions contained in the
resol~itions ~f the United Nations, the OAU and the nonaligned movement should
be demanded, to stop the continuous acts of aggression by which Israel, with
U.S. economic, political and military support, attempts to smash the just
struggle of the Palestinian people to achieve the return of their lands occupied
by the Zionists after three successi~~e wars, between 1948 and 1956 and in 1967.
"The people and government of the Republic of Cuba join the international
condemnation of the savage Israeli bombings of peaceful Iraqi and Lebanese
nuclear research centers, which again emphasize the high degree of aggressive-
ness that Zionist policy has impressed upon the attacks against both the
heroic Palestinian people and o~her Arab peoples as well.
"In order to carry out its impPrialist plans in the Middle Ea~t, the United~
States counts upon Israel and is looking for new a:llies, faithful servants
and guaidians of its economic, strategic and military inte~ests in the area,
- and instruments through which it can attack the peo~les' aspirations, without'
apparent consideration for the fact that the situatton there is becoming
increasingly dangerous for the region and for the entire worl~.
_ "Imperialist policy--which is hegemonist, racist and Zionist--is unjust to the
Arab peoples and, with even greater aggress3veness, to the Arab people of
Palestine, heedless of the thousands of voices that have beer. raised at various
international forums in support of the concept that a just and lasting peace
. in the Middle East can only be achieved with the recognition o~~ and full
_ respect for the xight of the Palestian people to establish thzir nwn definite
homeland and with the recognition of the PLO as the sole legitimate representa-
tive of the Palestiniar. veople.
"On this important occasion we wish to say once again that the just cause of
the Palestinian people may always depend upon our people's unending support
and full solidarity in the persevering struggle they are waging against
imperialism and Zionism to achieve the right to :.~lf-determination, the righ~
of refugees to return home and the right to create an independ~nt state of
Palestine on PaleGtinian land."
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COUNTRY SECTION CUBA
U.S. AGGRESSIVE P~LICIES DF.NOUNC~D
PA250334 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2241 GMP 24 Nov 81
[E:ccerpt] Panama CitS, 24 Nov (PL)--Cuba today denounced the aggr~ssive policy
of U.S. governments for the past 20 years against that country, during a meeti.ng
held here of the Latin American Economic System (SELA).
In th e face of the current hcstile attitude of the government of President
Ronald Reagan, the people and government of Cuba reiterate their determination
to defend their country's sovereignty to the ultimate consequences, states a
report submitted by the Cuban delegation to SELA plenary sess3on.
_ The meeting, underway at the technican lev~l, will draft the document setting
- the Latin American strategy for the United States.
These documents will be analyzed over the weekend by the foreign ministers of
SELA member nations, many of which have voiced a critical stance toward
Washington's policy.
In submitting its aocument, Cuba enumerates a number of U.S. actions against
the Cuban economy, mentioning the follflwing:
_ The trade ban between th e two countries; trade limitations on U.S. subsidiaries
in other countries; pressure applied against those countries trading with Cuba;
the ban on U.S. citizens importing merchandise containing Cuban products from
other counr.ries; the unilateral annulment of treatment as a most favored nation;
and the restrictive provisions in the 1975 trade law, among others.
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EL SALVADOR
MORAI.ES ~HRLICH BONN STATEMENT REPORTED
PA281932 liavana PREI,A in English 1826 GMT 28 Nov 81
[Text] Bonn, Nov 29 (PL)--Antonio Morales Ehrlich, member of the Salvadorean
Christian Democrat Military Junta, declared here that his regime will not agree
to a dialogue with the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR), that is proposing
a political solution to the conflict in E1 Salvador.
In statements to the press, Morales admitted that there are strong, insistent
demands from abr~ad that the Salvadorean military ~unta negotiate with the
opposition forces of the FDR and the Farabunao Marti National Liberation Front
(FMLN).
He allege~l that the denunciations and protests throughout the world owing to the
genocide that the Salvadoresn junta is commiting are due to supposed misinforma-
t ion .
- In spite oF international press circles of the most varied trends having denounced
repeatedly the violations of human rights in E1 Salvador, Morales argued that it
is merely "a pu.blicity campaip,n."
As rc~~;ards the assassinations of the bishop of San Saivador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero,
fo�r I1.S, nuns and several members of the FDR leadership, Morales pointed out
that "no one has bec~n ablc to prove who committed these crimes."
There is, however, a large amount of evidence, including that of an ex-U.S.
ambassador, which pins the murders on the junta without a shadow of. a doubt.
A spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Cooperation of the Federal~Republic of
C,erm~ny (FRG) declared Thursday that the aid for development to E1 Salvador
~ will be suspended while the present situation should last. This was communicated
to tl~e juntz's forc~i~n minister, Fidel Chavez Mena, who visited Bonn last week.
Ilowevcr, Morales said that it was �.naware of this statement, that was published
in tl~e West German press, and he claimed that in his country "there is a climate
of i~cace."
Although in recent d~ys countries like Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Ecuador, Peru
and Panama have given their support to the French-Mexican initiative that the
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Salvr~dore.lil re~;imc nc~gotiate a political soiution with the FDR, Morales said
. that the military junta will not do this.
Neither does it accept the demand of the socialist international and the West
German Social Democracy Party reiterated Monday this week by Hans Wischneski,
for political solutions to the Salvadorean problem.
In the press conference, Morales avoided replying to questions on the recent
report published by the United Na*ions on the massacres that the Salvadorean
;unta is committing.
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_ COUNTRY SECTION GUATEMALA
BRIEFS ~
MORE BODIES FOUND--San Jose, 17 Dec (PL)--At least 21 bodie~ were found in the past
few hours in various parts of Guatemala where repression has intensified. Ten bodies
were found on the "Alaska" Peak and near the town of San Lorenzo, Suchitepequez.
A woman and an approximately 11 year-old boy were among those found. Ttze other
bodies were found in the southern sector of Guatemala City and the towns of Santa
Cruz del Quiche, Valle Nuevo, San Ma.rcos Jacopi~as, Agua Escondida and Montserrat.
So far, only the bodies of Juan Lopez, Isabel Barillas, Alfredo Lopez, Leon Bat,
Diego Mendoza, Julian ~ascual Ramos and Antonio Palopo have been ~dentified. The
macabre discovery occurred a few days after 32 other bodies +were found in the region
of Chimaltenango. [Text] [PA172106 Havana. PRELA in Spanish 1627 C,'I~T 17 Dec 81]
ARGENTINE NEWSMAN REPORTIDLY ARRESTID--Mexico Ci~y, 10 Dec (PL)--Baldomero Alvarez
Rios, executive secretary of the Latin American Journalists Federation [FELAP], to-
day confirmed that Valentin Deigo Ferrat, an Argentine n~wsman who was visiting
Guatemala on a professional mission, was arrested by the pol~ce of that country.
The FELAP stressed that Ferrat, international coordinatos for the System for Editor-
ial InformaCion and Promotion [Sistema de Informacion y Promosion Editorial--SIPE]
is being tortured and demanded his immediate release. For this reason, it dema.nded
the solidarity of national organizations of ~ournalists in Latin American and the
Caribbean. Alvarez Rios recalled that Ferrat is also a distinguished member of the
International Organization of Journalists and the Association o� Foreign Correspond-
ents in Mexicn [Asociacion de Corresponsales Extranjeros en Mexico--ACEM]. [Text]
[PA120234 Havana PRELA in Spanish 0235 GMT 11 Dec 81]
PEOPLES FRONT DELEGATION VISITS MEXICO--Mexico City, 24 Nov (PL)--The Guatemala
people will struggle until they achieve the overthrow of the ~ilitary regime of Gen
Romeo Lucas Garcia and the establishment of a revolutionary government in Guatemala,
a delegation of the 31 January Peoples Front (FP-31) has said here. The FP-31
delegation, which arrived in Mexico City to meet with leaders of various Mexic~:,
political, union and student organizations, indicated that the regimes of Argentina,
Chile and Israel are "responsible for the fratricidal massacre in Guatemala because
- they supply military advice and modern weapons, including herbicides and napalm, to
the Lucas Garcia dictatorship." Alba Maria Esteves, Carlos Humberto Rojas, Antonio
Calel and Francisco Rodriguez, members of the delegation, told the local press that
they are on an international tour to make the public aware of and to obtain soli-
darity for the insurrectional struggle of the Guatemala people. [.Text] [PA250442
Havana PRENSA in Spanish 1507 GMT 24 Nov 81]
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ORTEGA SENDS CONDOLENCE LETTER TO FIDEL CASTRO
PA061533 Havana PRELA in Spanish 0159 GMT 6 Dec 81
[Text] Managua, 5 Dec (PL)--Commander Danile Ortega, coordinator of the Junta of
the Government of National Reconstruction, today sent a message to Cuban President,
~Fidel Castro, condemning the murder of internationalist teacher, Aguedo Morales
Reina.
- The text of the letter sent by Ortega to Fidel Castro is as follows:
Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro Ruz, Havana
Dear Commander:
_ Once again a brave and unselfish Cuban patriot has been murdered on Nicaraguan soil.
The blood of our brother, teacher Aguedo Morales Reina, has bathed our soil and we
soak up that blood with sorrow but above aZl with hope. The Cuban teachers are
helping us, with tenacity and at great risk, to overcome the state of cultural
prostration that we inherited from the dictatorship and the many decades of imper-
ial.ist domination in Nicaragua.
Those who carried out this crime and those who siipport their actions surely be-
l;eve that they are one step closer to their ob~ective of making us abandon our
principles and f.orcing the Cuban teachers who are assigned all over our country to
leave. There is nothing farther from reality because they will never accomplish this.
The teachers, the government and the people of Cuba have shown their determina.tion
to continue this fraternal and histozic cooperation with our revolution, and for
. our part, we once again reiterate our unyielding will to continue welcoming them
to our territory.
This nsw crime, like the past crime in which two Cuban teachers were murdered by a
counterrevolutionary group, will not remain unpuniGhpd. We make a vow to the peo-
. ple of Nicaragua and the people of Cuba.
Dear Commander, please accept from the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruc-
tion and from our people, our most sincere repudiation of this criminal act and our
profound solidarity.
[SignedJ Daniel Ortega Saavedra
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