ISSUE NO. 105, DATED 13 NOVEMBER 1952, OF GUATEMALAN COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER OCTUBRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R013600110001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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G UATEMALA
of Guatemalan Communist newspaper OCTUBRE
OCTUBR is an organ of the Comm nisi Party and it reflects the social principles
of Marx and Lenin. The main articles of the paper follow.
The distribution of the Chocola Plantation to 383 farm-workers and 3 soldiers
is headlined in the 13 November issue. Each received 5 manzanas of coffee lands
and. 2 uncultivated manzanas for planting corn. Speakers at the ceremony lauded
President Arbenz's agrarian reform measures.
The 'Second Congress of the Guatemalan Communist Party will. lay the cornerstone
for future propaganda and. provide ammunition against feudal ownership by foreign
companies and their agents. In four full-length columns on Page 2, Alfredo Guerra
gorges, director of the newspaper, reviews the successes and shortcomings of Party
propaganda during the past 2 years.
A full-page interview with Jose f'ianuel Portuny, 1?DE (Democratic i.;lectoral
Coalition) candidate from the Department of Guatemala, emphasizes that reactionary
forces must be defeated. at the polls if the masses are to benefit.
A re-print of an appeal by the National Committee for Peace urges Guatemalans
to send delegates from all walks of life to the Congress of the world Council for
Peace which will be held in Vienna on 5 December.
The international news section on Page 8 is devoted entirely to Eisenhower,
warrior Truman's successor, and to the premature jubilation felt by feudal-imperial-
ists who seek solace in the President-elect's "world crusade against Communism."
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