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Show l t The Wper That Dares Tb Take A Stand ftv-- i ? i . . , , Continued from page i ' t . . ! t. November 4, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 COMMUNISM SOUTH OF THE BORDER 1 (1) The amnesty recently provided for hundreds of Soviet agents who provided leadership for the bloody events of 1968, when hundreds of Mexdisturbances. icans were killed in summer-lon- g at least a thousand Communists and radicals in key government and journalistic positions in Mexico. (3) The Mexican governments drive to increase political, economic, and cultural ties with every Communist nation on earth. (4) The dismissal by President Echevarria of waves of terrorist attacks as mere diversion and provocations" which are not the fault of leftist revolutionaries. (5) The recent changes in the Mexican Constitution to cut away the legal basis of private property. (6) The recent introduction of Castroite textbooks, for compulsory use in all Mexican schools. (7) The persistent employment of Communist demagoguery, and calls rhetoric, for domestic class warfare from the highest (2) The placement of non-Mexic- an self-proclaim- anti-Americ- r A ed an Mexican officials. (8) Government inaction in the face of thousands of land seizures taking place all across Mexico, often by armed gangs under non-Mexic- an leadership. (9) Open declarations that collectivization of the countryside is the governments goal, combined with heavy government pressure on the rural population to join collectives. Surely we are not expected to overlook the lesson of Cuba, when all our official experts and media pundits assured us that Fidel Castro had no intention of imposing Communism upon the Cuban people. As a result, the Cubans were enslaved, except for one Cuban in ten who escaped to the United States, and a Soviet base has been implanted ninety miles from Florida. The present government of Mexico is following a similar path. For moral and humanitarian reasons alone, we should prefer not to see 65 million Mexicans forced to choose between slavery and exile. And for overwhelmingly important strategic reasons, we should prefer not to see what some Mexican writers can already visualize - a Cactus Curtain along the Rio Grande. For all these reasons and more, w'e ask your assurance that the developing situation in Mexico is receiving the deep attention which it merits. (End of Quote). The continuously increasing Soviet threat from Cuba and the Mexican bent toward Communism are not the only threat in the Western hemisphere; Guyana, Jamaica and the Bahamas are also moving toward Communist control. On June 15, 1976, William H. Luers, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Affairs, testified before the Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs of the House Committee on International Relations. In discussing the allegations of Communist influence in certain Western hemisphere countries he went out of his way to play down any possible threat. Concerning Mexico, he stated that the State Department believes the recent allegations that the Mexican government is taking Mexico down the Chilean and Cuban road to Socialism are unfounded. With regard to internal st organizations in Mexico, he stated that Communist and radical Marxist parties are legal but are small and weak, and that the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) has only an estimated 5,000 members - not enough under Mexican law one-par- ty Inter-Americ- an far-lefti- to qualify for registration. He told the committee that allegations that recent measures and actions by the Government of Mexico are Communist inspired, and against private domestic and foreign investment, do not hold up under scrutiny. His testimony as to the weakness the Communists was contradicted by the Communists themselves. A report from Mexico City dated July 13, 1976 states that the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) candidate in the July 4 elections, Valentin Campa, has stated: We have achieved complete success. We have reached a prominent place in the countrys politics, recognized by our friends and enemies. With the votes we have garnered, let us now see if we are still denied registration. According to the Communist Party leader, the Mexican Communist Party obtained over half a million votes which is quite a contrast to the State Departments figure of 5,000 Party members. The number of actual Party members is not a true measure of the influence of the Communist Party, as was evident by the votes they received in the recent Mexican election. In Mr. Luers evaluation of Guyana, he said that it seeks to create a Marxist-Lenisociety for its people but stated: There is no indication at the present time, however, that this Marxist-Leninisociety has much in common with the Soviet, East European, Chinese, or Cuban variants. He said that an independent Guyana seeking its own path to social progress is no threat to this country and we continue to provide economic assistance to st st Guyana . . . In briefing the congressmen Departments hemisphere position countries, on the State toward Western Deputy Assistant Secretary Luers pointed out that the State Department and our government are not responsible for keeping ourselves posted in minute detail about the internal developments in the countries of the hemisphere. The period when wre could consider ourselves the watchdog and policeman of the hemisphere has passed, he said. The State Departments evaluation that Communist influence in other countries (according to Mr. Luers) is also minimal certainly does not coincide with other sources of information. U. S. News and World Report reveals that President Echcverria publicly supported the regime of Chiles previous President, the late Salvador Allende, and welcomed Communist officials who fled Chile during and after the anticommunist coup. Soviet newspapers and magazines repeatedly boasted of Echeverrias pledges of solidarity with the people of Chile who are waging a struggle against fascism (translated to mean against the present anticommunist Chilean government). conCongressman Steven D. Symns tends that developments in Mexico, including seizure of private lands and infiltraguerrilla-typ- e tion by revolutionary Chileans into high positions in that country, are setting up Mexico for a Marxist takeover. The country has been plagued with Communist guerrilla activities as has much of Latin America, with the guerrillas concentrating on killing the police. Yet the Echeverria government has done little to make a concerted effort to eliminate the Communist guerrilla movement nor have they issued any condemnations or criticisms of the Communist Party of Mexico which was able to obtain 500,000 votes in the recent elections. The September 23rd Communist League is the most active of several Marxist underground organizations operating in Mexico. It takes its name from the UGOCM guerrilla attack on 23 September 1965 on the Mexican Army garrison in Madera City, Chihuahua, 250 miles south of El Paso, Texas. This abortive attack was led by Professor Arturo Gamiz. A few of the original followers of Gamiz are believed to be present members of the September 23rd Communist League - which according to now has an active Mexican intelligence membership of approximately 50. The Communist League is said to maintain connections (R-Idah- o) with the Cuban GDI (General Directorate of Intelligence) and some members have had political training at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow and guerrilla training at a special warfare school near Pyongyang, North Korea. Other armed Communist terrorist groups functioning in Mexico include the Movimiento Armado Revolucionario (MAR), whose KGB connections resulted in the expulsion of several Soviet diplomats from Mexico City; the Frente Unida Zapatista (FUZ), which operates in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero and also maintains contact with the GDI; and the Revolutionary Armed Action Central (CARA). While the Mexican police are primarily concerned with urban d of the Mexican Army guerrillas, up to has, at times, been deployed against rural guerrillas. This summer Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia called the attention of his colleagues to meetings being held between Marxist Chicano leaders and the Mexican presidential candidate. Specifically, Rep. McDonald noted that on May 21, 1976, Jose Lopez Portillo, selected by Echeverria as the next president, met (at his own request) with a dozen Chicanos, headed by Jose Angel Gutierrez. Identified as a professor at the University of Texas, which he is not, Gutierrez is actually a judge in Zavala County, Crystal City, Texas, where his wife runs a lucrative health care delivery system of the Dept, of Health, Education and Welfare. Jose Gutierrez is a power in the radical racist La Raza Unida Party which has a lengthy record of hatred for the United States. Unfortunately, Rep. McDonald pointed out, it has not prompted him to 'surrender his citizenship. Those familiar with the way things go in this country will not be surprised to learn that the La Raza Unida Party was launched by Ford Foundation grants in excess of one-thir- $600,000. The congressman went on to say that Judge Gutierrez has been an enthusiast of Aztlan, one of the propaganda fantasies of the Marxist chicano leadership. Aztlan would be the great Aztec homeland to be carved from most of the Southwestern States. Perhaps the judge discussed the matter with Fidel Castro during his visit to Communist Cuba last summer. According to the (Communist) Daily World of August 5, 1975, Judge Gutierrez examined Socialist Cuba to see whether various aspects are applicable to rural south Texas. At the May 21st meeting, Judge Gutierrez pointed out that it is necessary for the government of Mexico to create politically inclusive programs to link the Chicanos in the U.S. to Mexico. The Chicano leaders told Portillo that in the next twenty years the Chicanos will be masters of the entire Southwest of the United States and will defend their political position in any manner necessary including the use of arms. On May 29, 1976, the Mexican president-elemet with a leader of the Mexican-America- n Political Association which was founded by long time Communist Party member Humberto Bert Corona. On August 14, 1976, the Buenos Aires, Argentina newspaper La Prensa published an editorial ct entitled Mexicos Contradictory Attitude Toward Terrorism. The editorial said that Communist guerrilla groups have been carrying on kidnappings for ransom and a program of killing civilians and police. It was noted that the slogans used by the Communist terrorists are the same as those used by Chilean, Uruguayan, Argentine, and Bolivian terrorists, who now enjoy political asylum in Mexico. The article stated that it is difficult to find a reason for Mexico to prosecute its own terrorists if at the same time it legally Continued on page 11 |