POLITICAL VIEWS OF CUBAN COMMUNIST LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500070010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Guatemala/Cuba
SUBJECT Political Views of Cuban Communist Leader
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o Juan Marinello Vidaurreta, leader of the Partido 5oeielista Popular (PSP)
of Cuba, has recently expressed his political views in an interview with
Francisco Catalan, Guatemalan Journalist with the Curio de Centroamerica,
official organ of the Guatemalan government. Catalan has sent a report of
the interview to Jose Manuel Forturryy, Deputy and leader of the Partido
Accion Revolucionario (PAP), with a request that it be published in the
PAR organ, El Libertador, because the report contains "tremendously
interesting things."
2. The interview apparently had two objectives: (a) To afford Catalan an
opportunity to write an encomium of Marinello; and (b) to afford Marinello
an opportunity to set forth the current Communist line via El Libertador
for the edification and guidance of Guatemalan Communist leaders in labor
and politics. This latter conclusion is suggested by the last sentence of
Catalangs report which reads: "here is his (Marinello's) word so that every
progressive man of Guatemala may meditate upon it."
3 Forttu r will undoubtedly have the interview published in El Libertador, as
Catalan requested. The new director of El Libertador is Carlos Manuel
Pellecer, Communist suspect and ex-Charge d'Affaires of Guatemala in Paris,
Marinello's political beliefs as stated to Catalan may be summarized as
follows :
a? Fie does not believe that the Latin American people or their governments
have, a plan of "liberative action" and that very few governments on
this continent really desire such a program., but that Guatemala is an
exception, Washington Controls most of the Latin American governments,
Peru, Venezuela and Costa Rica having fallen under this mandate in the
last year, while Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and
almost all of Central America are continuing under it,
b. He thinks all American peoples should carry out their programs in
the spirit of lazaro Cardenas, who, at a Cuban Continental Congress
for Peace and Democracy asked for a "program of the American people."
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co Marinello Ps program would include: Intensification of the economic
relations of America with all continents; industrialization of raw
materials; national and Latin American merchant marines; a truly
-national bank; Latin American roads and railroads; diversification
of production; rational and useful commercial interchange; a firm
nationalistic policy regarding investments of foreign capital; agrarian
reform designed to prohibit slavery by foreign land owners and fer:dal
exploitation by local land owners; a common policy of public and private
credit which guarantees normal and increasing economic development;
and a study and solution of monetary problems and other matters which
must be equally considered.
d. For the attainment of these objectives M~k^rir_ello insists that "tyrannical"
Latin American regimes must be replaced by "democratic realities."
Congresses will have to study the operation of laws which constitute
democratic regimes: the liberty to organize political parties and
syndical organizations; the fixing of minimum social rights; social
security; racial equality; protection of women and children; and
attention to the basic problems of youth.
Comment. Catalan's note to Fortuny revealed that Manuel Pinto Usaga,
Deputy and leader od' the Comite Nacional de Unidad Sindical (CLAUS) hos recently
been in Habana. With Catalan, Pinto Usage called at the headquarters of the
Confederacion de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) and the Partido Socialista Popular
(PSP), presumably to discuss the present conflict between the Guatemalan
government and labor unions on the one hand and the United Fruit Company on
the others Pinto Usaga visited the United States prior to traveling to
Cuba for the purpose of enlisting the support of the CIO, That he should can
on the PSP (presumably on Marinello) is significant for it is another indication
of the deference shown important Communist figures by labor leaders of Guatemala,
It is not unreasonable to suppose that Pinto Usage sought and received the
advice of the Cuban Communist leader.
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