CURRENT TRENDS IN COMMUNIST PARTY OF EL SALVADOR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600640006-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY El Calvador
SUBJECT Current Trends in Corwist Party of Ll Salvador
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The following comments on current trends in the Communist Party of
-61 Salvador were made in early 1=arch to source by a Party mmber.
,1,, The Co mist Party of El Salvador has reached a decisive stage in its
development :vhlsre its clandestine operations must become subordinate to
Its overt efforts to organize laboro This organizational work must be
accomplished in such a manner that labor will be the key factor in politics,
thereby enabling the Co:m vista to attain uncontested political leadership
of the country.
The majority of Party members feel that the Party must take a more
positive stand in organizing the working class along political and worker
;syndicate lines, To this end, more effective propaganda, which will
etnphanize the political advantages to be gained through concerted action.,
is recoz .ended.
If the Marty is to move inexorably toward an armed struggle and eventual
control of the government, the first step is to prepare Party elements fox,
the effective direction of the government. As now constituted, the Party
is numerically weak and lacks elements with sufficient ability to assure
control of the government, Party experience in Guatemala is pointed to as
an exampled There., when the Communists found themselves in a strong position,,
t rey did not have the experience or ability to take advantage of the situation,
l"orrever, through sub8equent efforts they now exercise a considerable influence
in their own country as well as in other Central Anerican countriese
40 Although the Communist Party of 'El Salvador is not a legally recognized
political organization, it will. be able to capitalize on any success the
Partido Accion Renovadora (PAR) may achieve in the presidential campaign.,
since the Communist Party controls the Partido Autentico 1 ocratico (PAD)
and leftist student groups which in turn have strong elements in the PAR?
Although the Party does not hold in high esteem the leadership of the PAR.,
by assisting it the Party hopes to benefit in. the event of an Osorio
victory from any election deals or political favors which the Osorio govern-
ment night offer the PAR as its only organized opposition.
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5 Although iiajor Humberto P. ViUalta,0 PAD presidential candidate, is not
a m -mber of the Com nnn st Party,, he recognizes the necessity of solicitd ng
Con nnuaist support t arough labor groups dominated by the Oo urdsts in order
to further his political career.
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