CURRENT PROPAGANDA OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PARAGUAY (CPP)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700370007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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E~aop zlet entitled. "Three Victories of the Paraguayan People Over. North
=erican 1wrierialisJmd? was d_? str7buted clandestinely in Paraguay during
1949 by the National Directorate of the Paraguayan Communist Party
(CPT!),, It contained the following propaganda.:
-`he CPP took credit for three consecutive defeats Inflicted against Yankee
erialists. a) The defeat of the Yankee agent Natalicio Gonzales;, b)
The defeat of General Faimund.o Rolon, presidential candidate of the Dutra
ov rnment and of Yankee imper^..alis ; and r) The liberation of political
r::I one rs
The pamphlet - continued by stating that. the Paraguayan people could only
have democracy and peace by fighting against Yankee :intervention in internal
a.rf airs, by gaining respect for Paraguay's national sovereignty and by expelling
all Yankee and Brazilian Lilitary aseions from Par:?agua 0
T-1 he pamphlet contained an attempt by the CPP to link revolutionary activities
Paraguayan exiles in. Argentina tai Lh i"lankee Imperialism" without offending
the Peron governnent...* The following translation of a paragraph from the
5a :tiph:i et demonstrated the propaganda employed by the CPP in accomplishing
that aim
-U, this time the American Embassy in Asuncion is making intense efforts to
e a fascist Vgolne de estado l which again,, as on the 13th of January
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f-47, will halt the process of institutional normalization and will obstruct
`h, dernocra fi.c workers I movement, to gain more ample liberties. For this
ns of Lfor:ini ;i?sm and the Guion Rojo including those who remain, in the
jortary blow---encouraged primarily by !ankee Lnperialis .-the rotten re--
;;rnment and the army, as well as those in exile, are being regroupeO and
Mrl.:, In a foreign country a 'Cox and' has been constituted., integrated by
sera, Aranda$ H. Florentin, Enrique Jiraenez Paredes, Pae z ~ Chaves l
and other Fascist legionnaires directed by civilian Nazi Manuel Bernardes,
re i steves, and Avila and Iiodolfo Bordor., This Command is at the sere? ce
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of foreign powers and states that it can count on the support of these
powers in r oney and arms. The Comrand is backed by 1!orinigg and is trying
to bribe coin tinders and officials of the Paraguayan Army. The Command counts
on the support of e~ogelio Benitez and other Guionista bandits and with the
help of certain Febrer_istas and Liberal adventurers who neither understand
nor re' resent the democratic aspirations of the Febrerista and Liberal
pouuiar masses Q t-
`', The pamphlet called for the liquidation of the remains of dictatorshipQ
To accosrnli.sh this objective the Para/;uayan people must unite to fight for
the following: a) immediate political amnesty; b) full liberties and
guarantees for the legal activities of all political parties; c) el:imiw-tion
from the bottom up of all Fascists and .orinigist elements; d) general elections
within a short time under the control of a central electoral committee with
the Participation of all political parties,
To gain these.ob,jectives, the pamphlet stated that it would be necessary to:
grant raises in salary and wages in proportion. to the rise in the cost of
living since June of 1948; b) reduce the price of all articles of prime
necessity; and c) deliver parcels of fertile land to small farmers on a
ion/;-term credit basis of at least ten years to pa;y and a charge of not more
than three per cent interest?
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