JPRS ID: 10010 LATIN AMERICA REPORT

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24 September 1981
- LATiN AMERICA REPORT
(FOUO 23/81)
CONTENTS
C~UNTRY SECTION
IPITER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
Briefe
Seaga Visits Venezuela 1
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Reuniting Peronism 2
BRAZIL
Cut in BBC Portuguese Broadcasts Criticized
(Editorial; LATIN AMERICAN DAILY POST, 11 Sep 81) 3
CUBA
Concepcion Calls Haig's Trip a'Fiasco'
(Eloy Concepcion; PRELA, 14 Sep 81) 5
'PRELA' Lists CIA 'Attacks' on Cuba
(Victorio M. Copa; PRELA, 16 Sep 81) 7
_ Faustino Perez Rejects Stafford's IPU Remarks
(PRF.LA, 17 Sep 81) 13
NICARAGUA
Arab Countriea, PLO Supply Significant Aid ~
(Denis Ropa; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 12 Aug 81) 15 .
Tinoco Calls for Stronger Nonaligned Movement
(PRELA, 30 Aug 81) 17
D'Escoto Interviewed by Mexican Paper
(PRELA, 4 Sep 81) 19
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Briefs ~
Mexican-French Decision Praiaed 20
PANAMA
- 'PRELA' R~~orts Torrijos' Brother Skeptical, Suspects CIA
(PRELA, 7 Sep 81) 21
PERU
Communist Party Rejects Ortiz as U.S, Envoy
(PRELA, 27 Aug 81) 22
Communist Party Criticizes Government Policies
(PRELA, 8 Aug 81) 23
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COUNTRY SECTION INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
BRIEFS
SEAGA VISITS VENEZUELA--Caracas, 6 Sep (PL)--Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga
will start a 3-day official visit to Venezuela on Thursday, invited by President
Luis Herrera Campins. During his stay in Venezuela Seaga will meet with Foreign
_ Minister Jose Alberto Zambrano Velasco and wi11 hold work sessions with several
ministers of Herrera Campins' Christian Democratic cabinet to examine the current
bilateral cooperation agreements. Acc~rding to the Caracas newspaper EL NACIONAL,
Herrera Campins and Seaga "will review bilateral relations and current agreements,
and will explore areas of mutual interest" to establish new fields of cooperation.
The invitation to Jamaica`s prime minister is part of the diplomatic offensive that
the Social Christian government of Venezuela, visibly identified with Seaga and the
Christian Democratic regime of E1 Salvador, is carryi~tg out in the Caribbean and
Central America. [Text] [PA982000 Caracas PRELA in Spanish to PRELA Havana 1902
GM'T 6 Sep 81 ]
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- BRIEFS
_ REUNITING PERONISM--Mexico City, 27 Aug (PL)--Mario Firmenich, secretary general
_ and commander in chief of the Peronist Montonero Movement, said that Argentina's
problem is one "of liberation or dependency and not of civilians or military."
In an interview with Mexican journalist Mario Menendez Rodriguez, director of
the weekly newspaper POR ESTO, Firmenich insisted on the reunification and
transformation of Peronism. The Montonero leader also suggested a deep unity
with the radical civic union to help form, wir.h firm determination, a liberation
front whose goal wuuld be to achieve power. In the newspaper POR ESTO, Firmenich
analyzes the chances of the political convergence process called "multiparty"
and says that this is an initial positive step, but not enough. He adds that
there are two tendencies in the multiparty process: one that wants to make it a
civilian organization for a political-military convergence and a second that
favors the formation of a national liberation front. [Text] [PA280441 Havana
PRELA in Spanish 2215 GMT 27 Aug 81] .
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COII;ITRY SECTION BRAZIL
CUT IN BBC PORTUGUESE BROADCASTS CRITICIZED ,
PY121803 Rio de Janeiro LATIN AMERTCAN DAILY POST in English 11 Sep 81 p 4
[Editorial: "BBC Broadcasts"]
[Text] As to the That~he~ govern.ment's decision to eliminate the BBC's Portuguese
language transmissions to Brazil, we wish the English prime minister a11 the bad
_ luck possible.
The move is apparently the result of Tk~atcher�s budget cutting zeal, a"now what
can we cut here" measure motivated by a quick look at the right hand side of the
ledger where the figure 360,000 pounds a yeat: is registered. As usual in such
cases, all logic is reduced to the magical argiuaent of "savings." We question,
however, whether even within the narrow confinea of "savings" this decision can be
defended.
According to the British Goverim?ent there are "less than 200,000 regular listeners"
to the BBC Portuguese-language service in the seven major Brazilian cities.
Assuming that "less than 200,000" is Thatcherese for "close to 200,000" this amounts
to about 1.3 pounds per listener per yea~. For this l.a pounds expenditure, the
BBC and through it British society and culture, receive daily entry into the home
of a middle to upper class Brazilian. This individual, by his education, income
and social class, is within the top percentile of his society in influence and
prestige. His society is at present the eighth largest economy in the free world,
the wealthiesC and most powerful nation in Latin America and one of the emerging
leaders of the Third World. His country's gross national product is twice that of
Mexico, one of 18 Latin American nations ~hat receive the BBC Spanish service
which will not be cut.
By any objective measure then, this Brazilian listener is a valuable customer.
Not only is he a member of the affluent class of a nation with 120 million citizens,
representing one of the world's largest consumer societies, but he is also an
opinion maker within that society. From the point of view of the business world
he is a top-of-the-line custamer and Britain via the BBC is reaching this fellow
each day of the year f or a total yearly output of 1.3 pounds. We in Brazil call
that a bargain.
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In its argument before the House o� Lords, the Thatcher goverrunent stated in
defense of elimination that Britain's exports to Brazil are less than to Austria.
This may be true toda~~ but we wonder what will be the case 20 or even 10 years
from now. Certainly both momentwn and potential are on the side of Brazil.
The shortsightedness of the Thatcher approach was revealed by her spokesman in
the House of Lords when he remarked that the Spanish service "goes to 18 countries
and is in fact understood by some in Brazil." In other words, let them listen to
Spanish. The opposite.,of course is equally true, Portuguese is understood by some
outside of Brazil. ~
As friends of Great Britain we continue to hope that this important and traditional
link between non-English speaking Brazilians and the United Kingdom will not be
broken and Parliament will force the goverrnnent to back down. Certainly we hope
that in the coming debate same mention of the importance of Brazil will be made.
After all we are not talking about a banana republic.
A good businessman always knows a good customer when he sees one and Britain at
present is holding 200,000 of them in Brazil by the grace of the BBC and ~t a
yearly cost of 1.3 pounds per head. Cutting them off may seem to some to be a
good savings but to us keeping them would be even better business.
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COUNTRY SECTION CUBA
CONCEPCION CALLS HAIG'S TRIP A'FIASCO'
PA161345 Havana PKELA in Spanish~1735 GMT 14 Sep 81
[Article by Eloy Concepcion: "Haig: Lies as a Weapon"]
[Text] The U.S. attEmpt to calm European protests over its w~rmongering policy
by sending Secretary of State Alexander Haig on an urgent tour has result~d in
a new fiasco.
In West Berlin some 80,000 persons booed Reagan's envoy. They used the mrost radical
epithets against war and in favor of peace while Haig, surrounded by pol~ce officers,
signed the golden book of the eity, which is occupied by U.S. troo~ps.
Upset and annoyed by the demonstrators, Haig had to resort to one of h~s favorite
weapons (in addition to the neutron bomb) to refute the angry FRG yoe~ths: the lie.
The United States used in Vietnam a chemical product called "agent orange" to
break Vietnam's resistance to the U.S. invasion of its territory. Now, through
its secretary of state, the United States is accusing the Soviet Union of using
toxic substances in Southeast Asia.
There are currently thousands of Vietnam veterans in the United States who were
affected by "agent orange." The Vietnamese fields are damaged 'by the chEmical
war waged by the U.S. Anny in the area.
Haig forgot to mention other things in Europe: the United States is us3ng bac-
- teriological warfare tv spread epidemics in countries w3th which it doesri't agree.
The U.S. Army has the largest arsenal of chemical weapAns ever in the history.of
a country in times of peace.
The U.S. Central Intelligence AgPn.cy spends mil,lioz~s of dollars on eacperiments
with animals and human beings to "test" products, in~sects, microbes and bacteria
so as to use them in its operations against other countries.
President Reagan has ordered the manufacture of the neutron bomb, to later d3stri-
bute it throughout Europe. The hawks in tfi ~ Pentagon consider the neutron bomb
a"clean" weapon because it "only" kills h,uman beings and leaves inszallations
intact so that they can later be used by th e United States.
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Naturally, the secretary of state could not say theae things and resorted to lie5,
which are his favorite weapons.
With the shouts of '4ae want peace" resounding in his ears in Berlin, anger took
hold of the soldier-diplomat Haig and he began shouting insults against the
Soviet Union and the European countries which were shawing "apathy" toward the
U.S. policy.
His anti-Soviet phobia extended to Vietnam, Libya and the GDR. He questioned
the g~ssib ilities of success of the arms limitation talks whi~h have not even
started due to Washington's lack of interest.
The White House experts convinced Reagan of the urgent U.S. need to send an envoy
to Europe to try to quiet the protests �rom governments and peoples regarding
the U.S. attempt to return to th e cold war era, using as the setting a continent
which has already experienced several destructive wars.
Haig began his trip with the enthusiasm befitting Reagan's main foreign policy
spokesman...but he has returned upset because he was not able to convince any
government or silence the boos. Instead he witnessed how the stars of his flag
were b eing replaced with crosses, and an eagle, under fire, lay dying.
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COUNTRY SECTION CUBA,
'PRELA' LIST S CIA 'ATTACKS' ON CUBA
PA162302 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1300 GMT 16 Sep 81
[Report by Victorio M. Copa]
[Text] When the Cuban Embassy in Santo Domingo was assaulted anc3 its ~iiplbmats
were attacked, the Central Intelllgence Agency (CIA) and its allied ~~r~or~st
groups began the longest series of aggressions aga3nst a na~ion ~:ver se~en.
The history of the ~ggressions by U.S. agents against Cuban diplomatic officials
- is as old as its revolution, Cuban Foreign Minister Isidoro Mal~aierca told
PRENSA LATINA.
The following is an account of the terrorist actions carried out ~y the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) against Cuba.
1959
June Terrorists machinegunned the vehicle of the ~uban Ambassador to
Port au Prince, Haiti.
July The Cuban consul to the U.S. city of Miami in the state Florida
is attacked and wounded.
December The Cuban Embassy in Guatemala City is the target of a dynamite attack.
1960
October The Cuban consulate in Miami is attacked.
November Terrorists attack the Cuban Embassy in Lima, Peru at gunpoint.
December The Cuban diplomatic mission in San Salvador, E1 Salvador is attacked.
1961
January Terrorist groups hurl incendiary bombs at the Cuban Embassy in
Teguciagalpa, Honduras.
April The Cuban diplomatic mission in Panama City is attacked by gunfire.
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May Terrorists hurl bombs at the Cuban Embassy in Panama City.
June Terrorist groups fire at the Cuban diplomatic mission in Panama City.
July Two Cuban diplomatic officials in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are
~ attacked and the Cuban consulate in Barranquilla, Colombia, is
machinegunned.
September The Cuban Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia is attacked a.nd sustains heavy
material losses.
October A bomb is placed in the Cuban consulate in Panama City.
_ A bomb explodes in the gardens of the Cuban mission in the
Panamanian capital.
1962
November A diplomatic of�icial of the Cuban mission to the United Nations
and two other citizens of that Caribbean nation are detai.ned and
wounded.
1963
March A commercial flight carrying two Cuban diplomatic couriers explodes
while flying over Peru.
September Terrorists storm the UN General Assembly sessions and attack the
Cuban delegation.
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December Terrorists hurl a bomb at the UN building in New York while Cuban
Minister Commander Che Guevara is speaking.
1965 ~
May Terrorists attempt to assassinate the Cuban charge d'affaires to
Athens, Greece, and two Cuban citizens are wounded.
1966
January Terrorist groups stage a dynamite attack against the Cuban Embassy
in Mexico City. -
Septemb er A bomb explodes in front of the Cuban Foreign Ministry in the city
of Ottawa, Canada.
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- .1967
April The charge d'affaires of the Cuban mission at the United Nations
wounded by a letter bomb sent through the mail.
May A bomb explodes inside a vehicle owned by the Cuban Embassy 3.n
Mexico City.
August Terrorist elements attack the consul general of Cuba in Hong Kongy
- British colony.
October A bomb is placed at the Cuban commerc3al office in Montreal, Canada.
A bomb explodes at that Cuban office.
1968
May A bomb is placed at a New York hotel where a Cuban reception is
being held.
July Terrorists attack the Cuban consulate in Canada. A bomb explodes
near the Cuban mission at the United Nations, New York. A bomb
destroys the home of an offic3al of the Cuban diplomatic mission
- at thE United Nations.
August The Cuban Embassy bui:lding in Tokyo, Japan is destroyed by a fire.
Cuban tourism offices are attacked with bombs. A powerful bomb goes
off at the entrance of the Cuban consulate in Milan, Ital}r.
October Terrorist groups try to assassinate the Cuban ambassador to the.
United Nations.
1969
May A bomb is placed at the Cuban consulate in MonCreal, Canada.
June An incendiary bomb is hurled at the Cuban mission at the United
Nations, New York.
1970
May An attempt is made to attack the Cuban ambassador to Mexico from
a moving vehicle. '
1971
May An official of the Cuban Embassy is wounded in Brazzaville, Congo
during an attempt to attack th3.s diplomatic mission. ~
July A bomb is placed at the Cuban commercial office in Montreal, Canada.
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January Terrorists burn a car belonging to the Cuban mission at the
United Nations, New York.
April A terrorist attack is carried out against the Cuban commercial
office in Montreal, resulting in one Cuban off3cial killed.
Decemb er A bomb is hurled at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City.
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June A bomb is hurled at the home of the Cuban commercial adviser in
Santiago, Chile. An attempt is made to burn a car t~elonging to
the Cuban mission a~ the United Nations, New York.
August Bombs are placed in the cars of three officials of the Cuban Embassy
in Santiago, Chile. A bomb that was going to be placed at the Cuban
- Embassy in Paris~ France explodes in the hands of a saboteur.
September The arm~ of the military junta headed by Gen Augusto Pinoc~et attacks
the Cuban Embassy in Sant iago, Chile, the ambassador and other Cuban
officials are wounded in the attack.
1974
January An attack is carried out against the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
Book-bombs are sent to the Cuban diplomatic missions in Canada,
Argentina, Peru, Mexico and Spain, injuring several persons.
February A postal package sent to the Cuban Embassy in Spain explodes in
Madrid.
March A bomb is thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.
April A bomb goes off at the Cuban consulate in Madrid, Spain. .
May . A bomb explodes on one side of the Cuban Embassy in London, Great
Britain. The Cuban consulate in Merida, Mexico is attacked.
July A bomb explodes at the Cuban Embassy in Paris, France.
August Attacks are carried out against the Cuban diplomatic missions in
Kingston, Jamaica; Damascus, Syr3a, and Lima, Peru. ~
November A bomb explodes in the car of the Cuban ambassador to Mexico.
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March A bomb is hurled at the Cuban miss3on in Mexico City.
July An attack is carried out aga3nst the wife of the Cuban commercial
attache in Mexico City.
August An attack is carried out against the Cuban Embassy in Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
Novemb er Ter,rorists send a letter-bomb to the Cuban Embassy in Caracas.
A bomb explodes in the car of the Cuban ambassador in Mexico City.
- 1976
March A package containing books put out by the United Nations explodes
at the Cuban mission at the United Nations in New York, injuring
an official.
April A powerful bomb placed in the Cuban Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal
kills two Cuban diplomatic officials.
June A bomb explodes in the building of the Cuban mission at the United
Nations in Ne~a York.
July A letter-bomb is sent to the Cuban bnbassy in Madrid, Spain. An
attempt is made to kidnap the Cuban consul in Merida, Mexico and
a Cuban technician is killed.
August Two officials of the Cuban Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina
are kidnapped and are never found.
September A bomb is placed at the Cuban Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana.
October The Cuban Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela is fired upon.
November Two bombs go off at the Cuban F~nbassy in Bogota, Colombia.
1977 ~
February The Cuban military attache in Lima, Peru is attacked.
_ April The Cuban Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela is fired upon.
1978
September A bomb explodes at the Cuban mission at the United Nations in New York,
injuring one person and resulting 3n great damage.
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November A dynamite attack aga3nst the Cuban mission at the United Nations,
New York occurs.
DeCember A bomb explodes at the Cuban mission at the United Nations, New York~
1979
January The Cuban ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru is fired upon. ~
May A bomb explodes outside the offices of the Cuban interests section
in Washington.
October A bomb explodes at the Cuban mission at the United Nations, New York,
damaging the installations, its cars and nearby buildings.
- Decembe;r A bomb explodes at the Cuban mission at the United Nations, New York,
damaging th e building and a car owned by a diplomat.
1980
January A bomb explodes at the entrance to the Cuban consulate in Montreal,
Canada. .
March An attack is defeated when a bomb is found under the car of the
_ permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, New York.
September Terrorist groups kill an official of the Cuban mission at the
Uni~ed Nations, New York.
December A bomb is found at the Cuban consulate in Montreal, Canada.
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COUNTRY SECTION CUBA
~FAUSTINO PERFZ RETECTS STAFFORD'S IPU REMARF:S
PA170138 Havana PRELA in Spanish 0045 GMT 17 Sep 81
[Text] Havana, 16 Sep (PL)--Faustino Perez, vice president of the Cuban del:egation
to the 68th IPU conference, today refuted statements made by U.S. Senator
Robert Stafford and reiterated the opinions expressed by President Fidel Castro.
Citing Cuban national hero Jose Marti, the Cuban deputy said that "words are for
telling the truth, not for hiding it."
A great majority of the delegations attending this conference, he said, have
expressed their support for the Cuban pres3dent's declaration, emphasizing its
- historic importance. Others--a very few, to be sure--have had divergent opinions,
although "no serious arguments," he said.
Perez said that he wished to make certain statements out of respect for those
who feel that words have a more worthy function than serving as instruments for
deceit and hypocrisy; that is, most of those gathered at the conference.
Referring to statements by Senator Stafford in the morning session, the Cuban
legislator emphasized the lack of real argument with which Stafford rejected
Fidel Castro's declarations.
He said that Stafford could not refute the fact that his country's government
has pursued an aggressive policy against Cuba for over 20 years.
Faustino Perez asked who could be convinced by the Republican Senator that his
government is not primarily responsible for the conflicts that threaten peace in
the Middle East, Southern Africa or Latin America. ~
He challenged the experienced senator to justify "the criminal economic and
commercial blockade" imposed by the United States against Cuba. ,
He said: "Lacking arguments, Mr Stafford resorted to insults, adopted a
pharasaical attitude and, of course, following a deeply-rooted tradition among
yankee rulers, told a couple of lies."
He reiterated the Cuban President's charges regarding the use of bacteriological
weapons against Cuba, citing irrefutable proof taken from the U.S. Senate itself.
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Perez demanded that Senator Stafford return to the rostrum to explain the measures
his country's senate is taking to end the subversive, criminal activitiPs of the
CIA, activities that are perfectly well known to the legislative body he
represents. .
He added that perhaps the silence on this subject should be attrib uted to com-
plicity in these activities.
The Cuban diplomat said that it is not true that the United States was a philan-
thropic supplier of products needed for the campaign against the dengue epidemic.
On the contrary, he said, it delayed for almost 1 month the shipment of the
- "abate" reques ted through the pan-American health office.
Perez also said that Cuba did not send persons with mental deficiencies to the
United States via Mariel. He rejected Stafford's statements in this regard as lies.
Similarly, he criticized a sarcastic statement by a British delegate regarding
the "model" Maze prison, where 10 Irish Republicans have died, and he ridiculed
an aggressive attack by Australian deputy Cohen.
He insisted on Cuba's belief that "peace is the most urgent of mankind's require-
ments" and that "there can be no development without peace."
To return to the process of dialogue and detente that the U.S. Government has
interrupted, Perez said, it is imperative that we be concerned about the hundreds
of millions of people who are burdened with hunger, illiteracy and disease.
He emphasized that Cuba, its government and its legislature, are permanently
committed to peace and development and w311 support the proposals drafted at the
IPU preparatory conference in Manila Co stimulate dialogue and safeguard detente.
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NICARAGUA
ARAB COUNTRIES, PLO SUPPLY SIGNIFICANT AID
Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE in French No 1075~12 Aug 81 p 39
[Article by Denis Ropa: "Arab Aid"]
[Text] Libya, Iraq, Algeria and the PLO [Palestine L~.beration
_ Organization] are filling the gap left by America's default on
aid to Managua.
The 30 Soviet-made tanks of the Nicaraguan army were not, as firsti believed, sup-
plied by the USSR, but rather by Algeria. Another Arab country, Iraq, has also
declared it is ready to come to the assistance of this small Central American
country. Libya, which has already deposited $100 million in the Central Bank of
- Managua, the capital city, is reportedly considering contributing to some ma~or
agricultural development projects.
The PLO, which has a representative in Managua, seems to have,given the word to
"revolutionary" Arab countries to provide development assistance. An "offensive"
of this scope has never previously evolved in a region hitherto sub~ect to the
exclusive influence of the two Superpowers, especially the United States.
Moises Hassan, minister of construction and former member of the junta, explains
it this way: "We have common interests-- he say~, "--the Arabs and ourselves.
For we recognize our weakness, and the fraility of our independence. Libya,
Algeria, Nicaragua, and the Palestinians have l~earned what it is to be dependent
on foreign powers and their representatives. The Americans will never be able
to understand us because they have not had to endure great suffering. We~have
not yet completely achieved our independence, and the big powers cannot bring
themselves to accept our freedom..."
Nicaragua has been especially "free" since Washington, which ended economic aid
to the country on 23 January, accusing it of having supported the Salvadoran
insurrection, reaffirmed that decision in April. However, the authenticity of
the "documents" proving Nicaraguan support to the Salvadoran guerrillas has been
thrown into serious question by a former CIA agent, Philip Agee. To put its
allies off the scent, Washington got three countries--the wealthiest on the con-
tinent (Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela) --to agree to the idea of ineeting at
Nassau (Bahamas) 11-12 July for the elaboration of a proposed "Mini-Marshall
Plan" aimed at the countries of the Caribbean and Central America. No concrete
program emerged from that meeting.
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Aggressiveness
The four governments only agreed to act together where they are in agreement and
separately where they are not. The United States reaffirmed its commitment ta
support private sector development in Jamaica, leaving it to Mexico and the other
countries to help the more or less socialist states such as Grenada, Cuba, and
Nicaragua. The latter country, which has only received limited aid from the USSR
($50 million) and Mexico ($150 million) is believed to need an additional $400
million in 1982 just to keep the economy at the current level.
Before more than a half million of his compatriots meeting on the occasion of the
second anniversary of the fall of dictator Anastasio Somoza (17 July 1979), Daniel
Ortega, one of the leaders of the junta, stridently criticized President Reagan's
"aggressive and dangerous" policy. Aggressive, because it eliminated assistance
totalling $81.1 million. Dangerous, because it ~has led to Sandinista government
to take measures tending toward socialism if not Castroism: the nationalization
of 14 companies accused of "economic sabotage" and state confiscation of unused
agricultural holdings (holdings larger than 349 or 698 hectares, depending on
the region.
These decisions risk permanently alienating United States support. But it is not
true that the purpose of the aid from the Arab countries will be to promote
"revolutionary solidarity"? A solidarity in which Fidel Castro himself, it is
said~ already has an interest, excessively tied as he is to Soviet aid ($10 mil-
lion per day)...
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TINQCO CALLS FOR STRONGER NONALIGNED MOVEMENT
PA302050 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1805 GMT 30 Aug 81
[Text] Managua, 30 Aug (PL)--Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco
_ has called for a stronger nonaligned movement, to confront the threats and aggres-
sions against the underdeveloped world.
"We feel that the international situation prevailing on the 20th anniversary of
the movement requires that it be strengthened," he told PRELA.
Tinoco added that the U.S. Government "shows a tendency to threaten and attack"
in several areas of the world, citing the recent invasion of the People's Republic
of Angola by South Africa as the latest example.
He added that the attacks against the young African nation go hand in hand with
the destabilizing maneuvers against the remaining "frontline" countries.
Tinoca denounced the "increasingly open and evident" U.S. support for the regime
_ in Pretoria, against all UN recommendations.
Anothei focus of attention, he said, is the situation in Central American, where
there are threats of intervention by the United States, which has already,sent
hundreds of military advisers there.
He added that the shipment of U.S. weapons to the most reactionary countries in
the area (E1 Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) are helping to create further
tension there.
Tinoco noted that the Middle East and Southeast Asia continue to be trouble spots.
requiring that the nonaligned movement's unity be strengthened.
Speciffcally referring to the Middle East, he said that it is a crucial part of
the world, one of the weakest links in world peace because of the struggle between
"Israel's intransigent position" and the Arab countries.
He voiced the opinion that the nonaligned movement must solve "a number of somewhat
unimportant internal conflicts that have risen" to be able to fully carry out its
role of solidarity with all struggling peoples.
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Tinoco noted that the recent U.S. tendency to revive the aggressive "big stick"
and "gunboat" policies calls for more cohesion among the nonaligned member states.
He stressed that Nicaragua attaches great importance to the movement, made evident
by the fact that it joined immediately after the revolutionary victory of 19 July
1979.
He recalled that the Nicaraguan delegation to the sixth summit in Havana, Cuba,
firmly embraced the movement's fundamental and precise positions, such as its
opposition to imperialism, colonialism, zionism and apartheid.
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D'ESCOTO INTERVIEWED BY MEXICAN PAPER
PA061342 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2205 GMT 4 Sep 81
[Text] Mexico City, 4 Sep (PL)--Nicaraguan Fo,reign Minister Miguel D'Escoto has
said that Mexico's attitude regarding Central America is one of solidarity in the
quest for greater justice and democratization in the region.
During an interview with the newspaper EXCELSIDR, b'~scoto fielded questions on
several current issues and established Nicaragua's position.
He referred to the U.S. intervention in Honduras, and more particularly in E1
Salvador, where "that country keeps dozens of militarymen who are advising the
armies of those regimes."
He added that, obviously, we are speaking of a country (the United States) which
does not adhere to law too much, because the fundamental right it has always
respected is f.orce and it thinks force gives it rights.
Ae said that, rather than oppose the interests of the region, Mexico is trying
to p1aGe itself on the side of anything that means more justice.
History has made us regard the United States as a synonym of intervention. It
is impossible to talk of intervention without thinking of the United States.
D'Escoto referred to the situation in E1 Salvador during his interview with
EXCELSIOR.
He was questioned about the likelihood of a political negotiation of the Salvadoran
conflict. He responded that this is unlikely at the present time because the
Salvadoran army seems to be utterly opposed to it.
"They claim that the political solution will be found through an election, but it
is hard to think of an election at this juncture," he said.
Regarding the Nicaraguan process and the attacks against it, D'Escoto said that
"I have yet to notice the respect the United States shows for the self-determina-
tion of peoples."
"Nevertheless, the revolutionary process is going forward in Nicaragua, with or
without the North Americans. Its fundamental guarantee is the people and the
people's determination to have a free fatherland or die," he said.
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BRIEFS
MEXICAN-FRENCH DECISION PRAISED--Managua, 29 Aug (PL)--Commander Daniel Ortega
Saavedra, coordinator of the junta of the government of national reconstruction,
said today that the recognition of the FMLN and of the Revolutionary Democratic
- Front, FDR, of E1 Salvador by Mexico and France was a very significant act.
Just before boarding the plane that will take him to Libya, he praised the deci-
- sion to consider the FMLN and the FDR as "a political representative force."
Ortega said that it was a very serious and responsible decision, greatly increasing
the possibilities of a political solution to the Salvadorans' tremendous crisis
and tragedy. He added that the decision coincides with the views expressed by
the Nicaraguan revolutionary government on the situation in E1 Salvador. [Text]
[PA300344 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2130 GMT 29 Aug 81]
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'PRELA' REPORTS TORRIJOS' BROTHER SKEPTICAL, SUSPECTS CIA
_ PA080019 Havana PRELA in Spanish 2141 GMT 7 Sep 81
[Text) Mexico City, 7 Sep (PL)--Moises Torri~os, brother of former Gen Omar
Torrijos, said that there are still doubts abouC the causes of the death of the
Panamanian leader. He revealed deatils about a former plan against Torrijos.
Moises Torrijos told the newspaper EXCELSIOR that evidence leads him to believe
- that the airplane accident in which his brother was killed was planned, but he
stressed that the term murder cannot be used yet.
He said that the government commission investigating the accident explained that
when an airplanp crashes, the wreckage, as well as the bodies of the passengers,
are spread out over an area.
He said, "However, the plane in which Torrijos was traveling was smashed to bits
and the bodies burned."
_ He said, "Those who say that a watch which ~as stopped at 1145 and a ~anteen were
- found, are making up a legend, because the truth is that nothing was found."
a
He added that a group of friends of the Panamanian leader are sponsoring an investi-
gation of the accident, parallel to the official investigation.
He said that in 1973, the CIA made plans to murder the general, because he was
trying to recover the so-called Panama Canal zone.
, Moises Torrijos told EXCELSIOR that two former CIA agents had told General
Torrijos of details of the plan.
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COMMUNIST PARTY REJECTS ORTIZ AS U.S. ENVOY
PA310314 Lima PRELA in Spanish to PRELA Havana in Spanish 2300 GMT 27 Aug 81
[Text] Lima, 27 Aug (PL)--The Peruvian Communist Party [PCP] has rejected the appoint-
ment of Frank Ortiz as U.S. ambassador to Peru because he promotes the subversive
and terrorist actions of the Peruvian right.
In a press communique, the PCP said that in 1969 Ortiz, in his capacity as an embas-
sy official, led a dangerous espionage network and was forced to leave Peru because
he was condemned for his evil activity.
It said that while he was ambassador to Guatemala Ortiz maintained ties with extreme
rightist military groups that operate there.
The appointment of an official with such a record as ambassador to Peru, according
to the PCP, reflects the U.S. policy of returning to the cold war, especially in the
Southern Cone, where the CIA and other meddlesome U.S. organizations operate.
It also considered the appointment as indicative of the Peruvian Government's imple-
mentation of "a defeatist and denationalizing policy."
After stating that this policy particularly benefits the U.S. monopolies, the PCP
warned that Ortiz ' presence in Peru will make the domestic political situation even
more tense.
"Unquestionably, Ortiz' presence would increase the subversive and terrorist action
promoted by the Peruvian right," it added.
President Fernando Belaunde Terry himself recently confirmed Ortiz' appointment and
said that he would give his "agreement."
The decision was ma.de despite opposition, even though sectors close to the govern-
ment have called for the re~ection of Ortiz': appointment.
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COMMUNIST PARTY CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT POLICIES
PA090043 Havana PRELA in Spanish 1330 GMT 8 Aug 81
[Text] Lima, 8 Aug (PL)--The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) has accused President
Fernando Belaunde Terry of manipulating facts and figures to make it seem that
his first year of government has been successful. According to the PCP, there
has been no such success.
In a lengthy document on the president's address to the nation on 28 July, on the
occasion of his government's first anniversary, the PCP stresses the country's
current economic crisis.
It warns that by year's end an even bigger fiscal deficit is expected, the inter-
national reserves will have been reduced, inflation will be higher and production,
particularly production that is geared to the overseas market, will experi~nce
only a small growth.
These are the results, the documene adds, of the U.S.-inspired political model
implemented by Prime Minister Manuel Ulloa and his collaborators, which seems to
benefit the foreign monopolies and the big local capitalists.
According to the communique, the current economic policy has placed the burden
of the crisis on the people's shoulders.
In this regard, it denounces the reduction of wages, the rising unemployment,
the higher cost of living and the declining consumption.
After condemning the country's opening up to monopolies, it accuses the government
of having become a"civilian dictatorship" that rules the country without any
regard for the legislature.
It adds that in view of the people's resistance to that policy, the executive
branch has responded with repressive measures, such as the controversial "anti-
terrorist law."
Further on, the PCP communique condemns the return of the mass media to private
hands and the plans to ].imit the right to strike.
According to the document, the Peruvian crisis is not only characteristic of
the present moment, but is also a structural crisis, since the country's productive
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forces have been limited by the economic domination of the monopolies, thus
creating the dependence and underdevelopment that U.S. imperialism imposes.
After stating that the country must replace that backward structure w-ith a progres-
sive one, the PCP proposes the nationalization of monopolies and a number of
other measures. It also hails the leftist unity coalition which is based on a
broad popular unity, as a key instrument in implementing these measures.
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