Evening star., 1935-01-06
LATIN AMERICA in 1885
MAY SEE BIGGER REVIVAL
Cooperation VS.. Nationalism Noted
South of Rio Crande as Nations Seek
to Restore Economic Stability.

appears in most of the Latin American
countries, although in this case the
clash is between national co-opera-
tion and the interests and ambitions
of party groups. Here, too, the eco
nomic depression has made the clash
more acute, StreSsing. on the one
hand, the need for cooperation but
intenSifying, on the other. personal
passions and political intolerance.
Three States Face Problem.
Right now the clash appears more
in evidence in Cuba, Mexico and
Peru, although in each with different
characteristics. In Cuba national
cooperation is prevented by the
subsistence of an unpopular gov
ernment, which grows more arbitrary
as the forces opposing it swell and
threaten armed action. Instead of
making the Cubans forget its original
sin-the obvious support from a for
eign power which made it possible
the Mendieta regime has alienated
one political group after another,
through sheer inability and the use
of force, until today the resistance it
finds in the masses of the island re-
public is pretty nearly as wide as that
which overthrew the Machado dicta-
torship year and a half ago.
1t must be remembered, though,
that this popular resistance only
proved effective against Machado when
the United States unequivocally told
him to go. and in the present case
the United States has not only been
instrumental in placing the Mendieta
government in power by refusing to
recognize its predecessor, but it has
consistently supported it since.
In Mexico, quite the contrary. 1t is
the government which is being op-
posed in its sincere and well-planned
endeavors for national cooperation by
isolated groups or vested interests
which refuse to accept the ideals of
social justice which the Partido Ma
cional Revolutionario is carrying out.
Although in Mexico this opposition is
feeble and scattered, and very far
from endangering the stability of the
newly inaugurated CardenaS regime. it
will be interesting to observe the man.
ner in which the latter will ultimately
impose its will and fulfill its plans for
an integrated national economy.
Aprista Movement Fought.
In Peru. as in Cuba, the govern
ment has sided with the forces of re-
action. and is violently combating the
only true attempt at national Coop
Grafton ever started there, the ApriSta
movement. While. up to now, the
Aprista leaders have emphasized their
preference for peaceful and legal
means to attain power and practice
their program of social reform. gov
ernment persecution might suddenly
make of them active revolutionaries
Later on, when their international
differences over the Chaco have SUBJ
sided, Bolivia and Paraguay will also
face very serious internal crises. Some
of the most important political news
of the year in Latin America may
come from La Paz and Asuncion.
But, although, obviously. in none
of the other Latin American republics
conditions are so normal or so settled
as to discard the possibility of a
domestic crisis in the next IL months,
Cuba, Mexico and Peru promise the
most interesting developments as the
first leaf of 1885 is turned.
(Copyright. 1935.)