From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: No more reds in Latin America?
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:55:18 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Is communism dead in Latin America?

Recently, the Republican pary hsa been talking about the "death" of 
"communism"; the elimination of communism from the face of of the earth.  While 
giants like China contradict every tennet of this claim, I will limit myself to 
this hemisphere so that one may see that, while they are in tactical retreat, 
communists are awaiting for changes in the material conditions of the masses in 
order to make their move on politically unstable regimes.

Evidently, the fall of the fomer Soviet empire and its relapse towards liberal 
democracy have shaken the foundations of marxist lenninists on this side of the 
globe.  However, they are trying to regroup under two foci: "the new left" and 
maoist guerrillas with close ties with the drug cartel.  The "new left" groups 
all parties that previously fell under Havanna's influence.  I has two self 
professed objectives: 1) discredit "neo liberal" regimes in South America 
attempting to derail government efforts at privatizing heavily subsidized and 
ineficient state corporations, 2) support the Cuban communist dictatorship in 
its last pitch effort to retain total control of the island, thus ensuring a 
"base" from which military insurgencies may continue to be funded as in the 
past (Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc.).  

The "new left" inclues parties such as the bloodthirsty FMLN (El Salvador), 
which is now demanding land to its troop and not to the peaseant which the 
claimed to represent.  The FSLN of "nicaragua" which after its past electoral 
defeat, has stolen for its top brass the best of all Nicaraguan properties 
while it continues to relinquish control over the Nicaraguan military in spite 
of the popular desire of millions of Nicaraguans who defeated them in the 
polling booths.  Unable to pit the latin american populations against their 
traditional dictatorships they have decided to embark on a path that will 
attempt to destablize liberal regimes. 

Faced with the unfortunate post cold war consequence that "socialism" in its 
many communist varieties is an idelogy lookin for cover and extremely unpopular 
amongst workers and peaseant.  They are taking cover under the "popular" 
tagname.  As Lenin was to point out, a communist will never let you know he is 
a communist the "new left" call itself "democratic" and "popular".  As if 
communists had not origins within the middle clases and the radicalized 
inteligentsia, the new left claims to represent multiple classes, when it 
really represents the interest of the radicalized middle class agglutinized 
within the truly "communist" parties which they represent.  They have commited 
themselve to the path of "organizing the masses" for their own political 
leverage in their "fight for democracy" [in everywhere but Cuba] by "utilizing 
the party of the masses as a tool in the daily struggles with the ultimate end 
or arriving at [their] stategic objectives".  They argue for the "utlization" 
of the electoral process as a tool for destabilization which does not rule out 
"daily struggle" as destabilizing tactics. 

The so called "state socialism" is purported to be out of their agendas for 
the moment, instead they verbally claim to make capitalism "more democratic" 
[ecluding Cuban capitalism] in their organizing of the masses.  The so called 
"theology of liberation" is still used as a tool for the utilzation of religion 
to advance their political objectives.  In fact they claim to support the so 
called "ecclesiatic grass roots communities" which will become their new 
religious tool to advance class warfare in  which many Latin American Ayatollas 
will find a safe haven.

While simmultaneously attempting to destabilize liberal democracies and 
support Cuban communism, they also purport to "coexist" with capitalism a la 
Krushov in order to cast doubt over any legitimate internal or external attemtp 
to liberate Cuba form the communists.  They will do anything to protect Cuban 
communism as their last stronghold of party opression.  Recent acts of what 
their behaviour may be like if Cuba is liberated from within can be seen with 
Chilean communists who disrupted their congress when their genocidic comarad 
Erik Honecker was deported to Germany.   Meanwhile, Castro continues to support 
the "new left" as his new Latin American Commintern, to the point that the next 
conference of "new leftists" will be held in Havanna under openly communist 
auspices.

They domestic aims are to "resist liberalism", while they internationally 
pretend to lay the foundations of an "integrated" South American federation, 
which the consider "esseential in the struggle for socialism".

It is clear, that wheras communism poses no military threat to the hemisphere, 
they are attempting to lay the groundwork for further destabilizations a la 
Peru, once the situation is ripe.  The "defense of Cuba" is evidently their 
primary objective, since they would be unable to obatain any military support 
from no other country with exception of the drug cartel, which is already 
supporting maoist guerrillas in the Andes.

Edelmiro Salas

[Sound fantasticly cold warish?  Well wait passively for some years and see 
what will happen when countries who face starvation are left without any 
political or financial support, and let Cuban communists alone for the time 
being.]