A New Stage in the Mexican Struggle: Interview with a Political Exile
The following interview took place in Havana, Cuba in January, 1972. The man being interviewed is one of nine Mexican political prisoners released in exchange for the Rector of the University...
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...And when a guerrilla group is acting there isn't any time to discuss ideologi- cal questions...
...Q: What you've just described is a simultaneous increase in both urban and rural activity...
...I was among the prisoners...
...and the whole working class begin to strike blows against imperialism...
...Both sectors are desperate...
...A: In 1970, army forces were concentrated in the states of Guerrero and Yucatan and in the Federal District...
...In trying to increase investments by West Germany, the rest of Western Europe and Japan, they hope to expand Mexican industries, employ more people and in this way neutralize a larger sector of the working class...
...When these small businessmen felt themselves affected they said, "well, if these are the revolutionaries, we don't want to have anything to do with them...
...She was released only a few hours ago...
...The most violent revolutionary war, more violent than that of Vietnam, will have to be developed in Mexico...
...Student involvement in urban guerrilla warfare has not been confined to Mexico City...
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...There is another group also operating in Guerrero called the Partido de los Pobres...
...Urban guerrilla activity spread to the states of Nueva Leon, Veracruz, Chihuahua and Aguascalientes, and in Yucatan the army occupied the rural zone.4 Repression of the student movement in July of 1968...
...A: The guerrilla movement in Mexico as it now exists really began in 1968 with the repression of the student movement...
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...His wife, Consuelo Sols Morales, was kidnapped and questioned by the political police last week at military field one, in the capital...
...While the most reactionary sectors are completely under the control of Wall Street capital, the more progressive and intelligent sectors are looking for a more diversified source of capital...
...What has this meant in terms of the government's deployment of troops...
...In November of 1971 the National Revolutionary Civic Association (NRCA) kidnapped the Rector of the University of Guerrero, a prominent businessman who represented the Coca Cola Co...
...By attacking the petit bourgeoisie and pretending to be revolutionaries, these groups of Hawks tried to isolate the authentic movement from those who support it...
...At the end of 1968, a group called the Halcones (Hawks) was formed...
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...A: Mexico is the backyard of imperialism...
...A: Pardon me for making this observation, but I ave noted a lack of unity in the "underground press...
...Besides the enormous amounts of money poured in'through the U.S...
...What we have to understand is how to interpret warfare with respect to the specific conditions of each country...
...We admire the eocnomic advances and the fighting potential of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and North Vietnam, where the governments are leading their people to freedom, liberty and happiness in spite of American imperialism...
...At present there are 4 1/2 million people unemployed in Mexico...
...And so Camilo said, "Look, gentlemen, if the soul is mortal or immortal depends on what each one thinks...
...He finished high school and went on to two years of law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in the capital, and then became a school teacher...
...Because Guerrero is really still in a semi-feudal stage both groups depend very much on the support of the peasantry...
...Also, we are looking for a union on an international level with the forces of other peoples who fight against the common enemy -- North American imperialism...
...The actions of these groups are relatively independent of those segments of the bourgeoisie which control state power...
...the only way open for the Mexican people is armed struggle...
...Its success exhibits the growing strength of the Mexican movement for national liberation...
...The people of Guerrero were also directly involved in the struggles during the Reform period (1857-61...
...economic penetration of Mexico and also as a close personal friend of President Echeverria...
...Rural warfare was increased at this time, as provincial institutions where government protection was not yet in action came under attack...
...We need a journalism that constantly strikes blows at the enemy, a journalism that acts in defense of the people...
...The Mexican government, aided by the CIA, has started to change its methods of operation to discredit the revolutionary movement in Mexico...
...so he called for the resignation of the Mayor of Mexico City who was his enemy within the official party anyway...
...The prisons of Mexico began to be filled with young people involved in political work...
...For example they assaulted a small shoe repair store, drug store and a third class hotel, taking $80 or so...
...The most militant parts of the movement became increasingly aware from this point on of the need to join together with the peasants and the workers if they were to succeed in bringing about revolutionary change...
...And the Chicanos are now ca-rying out a war which is going to permit them to regain their dignity...
...Di- rectly under the orders of the Mayor of Mexico City, whose name at that time was Alfonso Corona de Rosal, this group took over the more repressive work of the police in the Federal District...
...It too was unsuccessful and so the guerrilla movement in Chihuahua has for the present receeded...
...At the same time that these activities were being carried out, a rural guerrilla organization, the National Revolutionary Civic Association, was developing in the state of Guerrero...
...COVER: the Vazquez Rojas Guerrilla group in Guerrero, Mexico.3 Q: Could you begin by giving us a general picture of the developments which have taken place in Mexico since 1968...
...In recent months over 30,000 army soldiers have been sent to Guerrero to hunt down the guerrilleros but they have been totally unsuccessful...
...Last week simultaneous attacks were carried out by the Socialist Revolutionary Front for Action which operates in the Federal District, Nuevo Leon and Chihuahua...
...radical press today and what role do you think it can play in the struggle...
...q: There have been several instances lately of an increasing use of CIA "black," or covert, propaganda...
...For example, Moises Guevara, who participated in the Bolivian guerrilla, was from a pro-China sector...
...In the face of popular pressure, Echevarria was forced to accept the resignation not only of the Mayor but of the Attorney General and the Chief of Police as well...
...Although we didn't invent the method of guerrilla warfare, we consider it a clear ex- pression of revolutionary will and dtermil- nation...
...A few months before the July massacre at Tlatelolco an armed attack was carried out on the Iguala jail in the state of Guerrero...
...We chose Guerrero because we know the area well and have found that the contradictions that affect Mexico and other so-called "underdeveloped" countries are very sharp here...
...The kidnapping was executed by the guerrilla group led by Genaro Vazquez Rojas...
...In exchange for his life the guerrilleros demanded the release of nine political prisoners and $200,000...
...Vazquez started working as a laborer in the cotton and tomato fiids n Slnado After touring most of the country, he joined a group of rural leaders to set up the Inde- pendent Farmers Association...
...Beginning in October of 1968, revolutionary actions were carried out against commercial institutions which supported the oligarchy in Mexico City...
...He promised to continue the investigations...
...The members receive a salary which ranges from 70 to 100 pesos a day, but they can earn additional money for attacks on leftist organizations or indi- viduals...
...His imprisonment led to the establishment of the first armed group of the Guerrero Civic Association,hich was set up to obtain his release...
...Q: You have mentioned several different groups with various ideological lines...
...Composed primarily of young teachers, students and doctors they were ill-prepared and so were annihilated by the army and their leader, Arturo Gamez, was killed...
...In my opinion, this is a mistaken point of view because Mexico is in no way as urbanized as Uruguay...
...It is believed that the guerrilleros are both Mexican and Guatemalan and so the armies of both countries are now being mobilized against them...
...So its a mutual effort...
...At riflepoint or bayonet point, they have driven whole villages into camps or what they call "controllable" hamlets...
...During 1969 and 1970, they committed numerous crimes, including assassinations and kidnappings, with the consent and knowledge of both the police and the President...
...Genaro Vquez Rojas was the leader of the National Civil Revolutionar Auociatio...
...We believe that a scientific method is the only tool that can help us to interpret correctly the world around us and the social problems that exist within it...
...He was the object of intensive searches by the Mexican Army and U.S...
...The work in the countryside will, of course, take a longer time to become visible...
...If the colonies begin to rise up and struggle, the crumbs these U.S...
...And he went to fight...
...In 1959 the four main rural orgszations joined together under his leadership to form the Guerrero Civic Association to fight against the low prices imposed' by U.S...
...What happened in reality was that a large part of the student movement came to see that they could achieve nothing through legal means and so they either went into underground work in the cities or else in the countryside...
...A concrete example of this is the case of the Guatemalan guerrillas who kidnapped the German Ambassador Von Spretti...
...A: Yes, this has just begun happening in the last year...
...At this particular point in time some white workers in the United States participate in the exploitation of the Third World because they receive the crumbs of imperialism...
...While the student movement continued to gain strength in the cities and as repression against it increased, Vazquez began to build bases of support for a guerrilla movement in the state of Guerrero...
...BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON mENARO VAZQUEZ ROJAS Mexican leader Genaro Vzquez Roeas led an armed movement in Guerrero State since 1968...
...In 1969 armed actions in the cities increased-- bombs were planted in the offices of reactionary newspapers, in the Ministry of the Interior, and in other places which symbolized the repressive government...
...There are several urban groups who feel that the struggle must begin in the cities and extend to the countryside...
...The people did not believe him because they knew that in reality it was he who was responsible for the massacre...
...He serves the most reactionary segment of the Mexican bourgeoisie.- There is also a group called the Zapata Urban Front which is closely connected with the first group- and is believed to be a government group as well...
...Controlled by one national political party, the government has been forced to turn to increased repression in an attempt to maintain power...
...The organization started opera tions in the mountains of Guerrero, the Costa Grande region that stretches from Acapulco to the state of Mlchoacin...
...What's mortal is hunger, what's mortal is oppression and let's unite on what we're feeling and what we're experiencing on this earth -- what everyone feels...
...When those crumbs end they will become conscious of what is really happening and they will join the struggle...
...And so the revolution outside can be accelerated...
...For example, Camilo Torres was involved in ideological struggles, but he soon saw that discussions only lead to more discussions...
...In November 1971 an armed group led by Gemro Vzquez Rojas cried out the sen- sational kidnapping of Jaime CasUrejn Die, Rector of the Unfverety of Guenero, who represats the CcaC a Intersts in that state...
...And so it is not really possi- ble to have real mass organizing in Mexico -- the movement has been forced underground...
...Let's suppose that it is difficult to have unity in one paper, but the Blacks could10 have one, the Chicanos, the Puerto Ricans, etc...
...It will work for the unity of all groups that are fighting for the same basic goals...
...They carried out an, intensive campain against Rail Caballer Aburto, then governor of the state who was finally dismissed after a series of accusations of administrative corruption and abuses had piled up against him...
...The kidnapping and subsequent release of the prisoners, in November, 1971, was one of the most dramatic actions in Mexico in recent months...
...q: Could you tell us, then, how the guerrilla movement has been developing over the past few years and what stage it is in now...
...So that is where guerrilla warfare must be developed...
...The CIA and the FBI have also joined in these efforts, using techniques applied in the early stages of the Vietnam war...
...However, the student movement in this state is still very strong...
...At this point Vazquez Rojas began issuing statements from the mountains calling upon the people to rise up...
...Q: Could you explain a little more what you mean by "serve the CIA...
...The line to be followed in Mexico must be from the countryside to the cities, and so the urban guerrilla should serve as a support base for the rural guerrilla...
...In addition to these forces there are many U.S...
...the monster will be very preoccupied within its own house...
...You know that from the historic point of view the petit bourgeoisie has been traditionally allied with the revolutionary movement...
...None of these groups are united at the moment...
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...Both the Movement of Revolutionary Action and the People's Armed Comandos were heavily infiltrated...
...It was discovered in 1971, and is led by one of the most repressive agents in Mexico, Sergio Romero Ramirez...
...Genaro Vzquez Rojas was born in San Luis Acatlin, in Guerrero State in 1933...
...lie was rescued on April 22, 1968, in a clash with the police...
...His father was a peasant leader...
...Chihuahua, Aguascalientes, Cordoba and Guadalajara...
...Anyone who fought for their basic rights in Mexico would be repressed by the government...
...The Halcones at work on student demonstrators...
...Question: How do the local landowners and capitalists react to the movement...
...It is impossible to conceive of an open struggle within this context...
...in Guerrero, Julio Hershfield...
...Vazquez Rojas: As revolutionaries, we are inspired mainly by the concrete conditions of our own nation...
...Q: How do you see the development of the Mexican struggle as part of the continental struggle...
...Two guerrilleros were killed during the action but Vazquez was able to escape to the mountains...
...The National Civic Revolutionary Association was created...
...Ike spent his first years in a rural environment, From an early age he obtained firtd knowlEdge of the difficult conditions faced by the farmnn- ers s a result of the exploitation by the landlords...
...He operates principally in the state of Guerrero, along the coast that connects with the state of Michoacan...
...1971 came to an end with the kidnapping of Julio Hershfield, the Rector of the University of Mexico City and a close friend of President Echeverria...
...This group has had several violent encounters with the Army -one just a few days ago...
...But in July, 1968 when the students, supported by a vast majority of the population, went out into the streets to demand that the government uphold the Constitution the violence with which they were met on the part of the repressive forces shattered that myth forever...
...has the same tactic been used in Mexico...
...A: The situation in Mexico is very-different now than it was in 1968...
...The President issued usual statementssaying that those responsible for the massacre would be punished...
...While he studied and worked he never lost contact with the farmers of Guerrero...
...The three people in the car with him were injured...
...Green Berets, and his death is a tragic blow to the liberation forces...
...With increased foreign capital they could eliminate at least a part of this figure, which couldn't be done with North American capital alone...
...The most famous of these groups is the Central de Accion Revolucionario Armada...
...All the leaders of the intelligence service of the Mexican Army and the Ministry of the Interior are trained by and serve the CIA...
...Is there something special about its history or economic characteristics...
...Such groups, passing as real revolutionaries, carried out armed actions against the organizations and institutions of the petit bourgeoisie...
...A: Mexico is no different from Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic or any other Latin American country in terms of U.S...
...revolutionary movement is developed, the revolutionary action in the Third World will be accelerated...
...In the western part of the country in Guerrero and in Sonora there are several MarxistLeninist groups operating with a pro-China line: the Revolutionary Party of the Mexican Proletariat, the Martyrs of Chicago (named in honor of the Haymarket riots) and the Party of the Mexican Workers...
...During the Independ...
...today (8:55 M)on kilometer 226 of the road from Mexico City to Morelia, west of the capital...
...10025 or Box 226, Berkeley, California 94701...
...Afterwards, the movement went underground...
...For instance, in Uruguay a number of false "communiques" by the Tupamaros have appeared within the last year...
...This unit is led by Lucio Cabanas whose background as a Normal School teacher is similar to that of Vazquez...
...For example, in Uruguay the urban guerrilla is basic because the majority of the population is concentrated in the cities (52% in Montevideo, editor...
...3) Full economic and political independence for Mexico...
...Inti told Che that he feared there might be differences within the guerrilla unit, and Che made the following observation: here we are not going to discuss international ideological questions -here we are going to fight in order to bring the people to power...
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...Genaro Vq uez Rojas was the leader of the National Civic Revolutionary Association guerrlla movement that operates in the Costa Grande mountains, in the state of Guerrero, since 1968...
...More than 80 percent of all Mexican in- dustry is in the hands of North Americans...
...At the same time armed actions were begun against the latifundistas, army officials and all repressive forces in Guerrero...
...The idealist question we'll leave to individuals, but let us make the revolution now to solve the problems of misery...
...Q: What kind of work is being done aboveground now...
...Q: What has happened to the traditional student movement under these conditions...
...What we have to do is forget our ideological differences, forget our petit bourgeois individualism a little and concentrate on active journalism...
...And let me say that this is a joint action which is equally important for North American revolutionaries and Third World revolutionaries...
...Hersfield was known as an advocate of U.S...
...Where has it concentrated its forces...
...topographically, the rural area provides a very good rear guard for the guerrilla...
...This was done and they were all brutally tortured and then assassinated...
...In June of 1971 the students tried once more to demonstrate peacefully and again they were brutally repressed and many were killed...
...The political police of Mexico then kidnap these people and hand them over...
...Address all mail to Box 57, Cathedral Station, New York, N.Y...
...AID programs, are there also Mexican police who are trained by the United States...
...4) Setting up a just social system that will benefit the people of Mexico...
...In some areas, they try to use the so-called "Vietnamese village" method...
...The army has directed them...
...For further backround information on Mexico, see NACLA's pamphlet entitled Mexico 1968: A SttUdy in Domination and Repression -- a revision of which will appear by Fall 1972...
...The attack, carried outby an armed group of the National Revolutionary Civic Association, resulted in the release of Vazquezi Rojas, one of the leaders of that group...
...It was at this time that he began working toward the development of the associations of farmers in his state...
...The more reactionary sector sees repression as the only answer to the critical situationwhich exists today...
...They are in a hospital in Morelia, the capital of Michoacin State...
...What will be crucial is the continuing development of the rural guerrilla movement...
...A: After the 1968 repression of the movement in Tlatelolco there was an apparent lessening of activity...
...To the degree that the U.S...
...Again in 1968 another group was formed also from a student base, the 23rd of September Movement...
...What's happening is that you're discussing too much theoretically...
...Our political cadres analyze the particular experience of these revolutions in order to learn from them and to apply these experiences here...
...In November 1966 he was arrested in Mexico City and later transferred to Gtl- pancingo, capital of Guerrero...
...They instead represent the more right-wing elements of the bourgeoisie who wish to provoke the situation into a crisis period making a repressive coup d'etat possible.8 eomro V6iquoz killd in Mexico & MEXICO CITY, February 2 (PL) - Gnaro Vuez Rojas, top leader of the rural uerra movement in Mexico, was killed polices at 25 am...
...A: There are various groups and parties that are trying to politicize the masses in a pub- lic way, but the Mexican people have already suffered too much in the streets...
...The Civic Association of Guerrero transformed itself into the National Revolutionary Civic Association, an organization that is giving birth to other armed groups...
...this impelled the Army to mobilize more forces in the cities...
...And so they fought and died together and there was never a single problem of unity within the group...
...Usually thought of as one of the more "prosperous" Latin countries, it is in reality faced with grave economic problems and a constantly rising unemployment rate...
...Inti Peredo came from the Communist Party...
...It is now seven months since they have been investigating these crimes and nothing has happened, nor will it as long as the government remains in charge of the investigation...
...Everyone knew that the chief Hawk lived in the Presidential Palace, but the President, of course, has to protect himself...
...In an interview published by the Mexican press in mid-January he hid said: "Our struggle is the result of national factor...
...In June of 1971, they came to public atten- tion when they were put in charge of breaking up a student demonstration demanding university reforms and the release of political prisoners.Openly, shamelessly, and cynically, they assassinated numerous students who participated in the demonstration...
...A: At this point the direct link between urban and rural struggles is only at the most elementary stage...
...The largest problem these groups have faced in terms of survival has been police infiltration...
...We must understand that the United States will not allow Mexico to do what Chile did...
...We picked Guerrero because we know the area and because the problems of Mexico are very sharp here," said the guerrilla leader...
...This was demonstrated by Comandante Guevara in Bolivia...
...When the October massacre occurred in which 1,000 people were shot down by the Army, it became increasingly clear that there was only one road open for independence in Mexico -- armed struggle...
...When they were in Mexico, the CIA identified them and asked the Mexican police to to capture them and return them to Guatemala...
...Q: Activity at the moment seems to be about equal in the cities and in the rural areas...
...Q: What do you think of the U.S...
...VAZQUEZ ROJAS ON THE MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE Question: Is your movement purely regional...
...This is al- ready happening in the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Guatemala and Uruguay...
...And so you have to carry out the actions simultaneously, with one advantage for you -- imperialism cannot hurl bombs on your cities because that is where its industries are...
...Due to the large number of foreign and national journalists who were present at the demonstration and many of whom were injured, there was a general public protest against the Hawks...
...do you think that they will permit the Mexican people to take this sway from them...
...But, in Guatemala for instance, the majority of the oppressed population is in the countryside and...
...They've tried "mopup" operations -- massive searches with soldiers and policemen, with helicopter support...
...If one thought the soul was immortal, one wasn't a Marxist...
...We are pro-Mexican and for the moment don't rigidly label ourselves pro-Soviet, pro-Chinese, or pro-Cuban...
...Question: What is the main revilutionary tendency among the guerrillas...
...We sympathize with all the revolutionary victories of other peoples...
...ence wars in the past century General Morales led the guerrilla movement in the southern mountains of the region...
...In 1971 as the guerrilla actions under the leadership of Vazquez Rojas increased, almost half of the Army was sent to the region...
...It is creating facsist groups made up of Hawks...
...Mexico is thus a country in a state of siege...
...Their main activities center around expropriations...
...that operates in Guerrero State and aimed at others, according to news agency reports...
...These are not possible...
...They were trained in Fort Benning, Georgia...
...10027...
...In 1971 urban activity increased even more and the state was forced to use soldiers and police to protect the banks...
...2) Creating a people's government of workers, peasants, students, and progressive people...
...At the time of his death, he was recognted as a national leader in the Mexican fight for freedom...
...Up until that time the idea still existed that it was possible for the Mexican people to demonstrate peacefully for their rights and against the injustices of the government...
...com- panies on the raw materials from -the area...
...This was one of the last acts that he participated in, for on February 2, 1972 he was mysteriously killed in what the authorities called an "automobile accident...
...It should be remembered that in the past century imperialism robbed Mexico of a large part of its territory, territory that is today occupied by the Chicanos...
...What are your goals...
...If Third World people within the U.S...
...The Ministry of the Interior reported the death of te i38yearold guerrilla leader took place when the car in which he was traveling overturned after the police had shot out a tire...
...Vazquez Rojas: All of the regions's bosses, economic and political, have tried to carry out a tremendous mobilization in order to encircle us...
...Many of them went to the countryside and began to work with the campesinos, while others went into clandestine activities in the cities...
...In exchange for him, the National Civic Revolutionar Association obtained the release of nine political primers, who left the country, and 200000 dollars...
...Today the region remains in a state of poverty and underdevelopment while at the same time being the sight of the internationally famous upper-class resort area of Acapulco...
...Embassy...
...Q: Why has the greatest amount of rural activity been centered in the state of Guerrero...
...Composed of persons from the lumpen proletariat, it was created by the Federal government and trained by the Mexican Army...
...The Revolutionary Student Federation has carried out armed actions in the state of Jalisco...
...Vazquez Rojas: Our struggle has a definite national orientation...
...Veryoften the CIA asks that certain revolutionary people be sent back to the police in the country from which they have sought asylum...
...PUBLSMD: /3/72 --Granma9 Most importantly, these groups illustrate the acute contradictions in the Mexican national bourgeoisie...
...Funds for the movement were obtained through a series of kidnappings throughout 1969 and 1970...
...These are the conditions which have led to Guerrero's vanguard position in the struggle...
...Other groups are working in Aguascalientes...
...Q: In an attempt to mas governmental political repression, there has been an increasing trend throughout Latin America to use right-wing groups supported by but not "officially" connected to, the police to repress the left...
...After this, the organization felt t was necessary to start operations in other stats, and plans were prepared on a national level...
...Although we did not invest guerrilla warfare, we thing it is a clear expression of revolutionary determination and an effective way to win the liberation of the people of Mexico...
...The following interview attempts .to clarify the Mexican situation as it exists today...
...All documents and information related to revolutionary movements in Mexico and Latin'America are turned over to him as well as information on political exiles who live in Mexico...
...Neither the Chilean line of an electoral front, nor the Peru- vian line exist in Mexico...
...Fof the last few weeks a large number of soldiers, with the aid of planes, helicopters and other resources, had been trying to locate the guerrilla leader...
...The man being interviewed is one of nine Mexican political prisoners released in exchange for the Rector of the University of Guerrero...
...Genaro, from a peasant family in the state of Guerrero, had for the past four years been a leader of Mexico's strongest guerrilla organization...
...Green Berets in the area...
...The enemy is, therefore, weakest in'the countryside...
...All blows against the empire will make the struggle shorter for everyone...
...The urban guerrilla groups are composed mostly of university students...
...Has this kind of counterrevolutionary activity been used in Mexico...
...A: I think that the differences that exist on an ideological plane internationally, are6 merely superficial differences...
...Despite a large mobilization of army forces into the area the guerrilla movement continued to spread and gain support...
...Has the success of the Tupamaros in Uruguay had an effect on revolutionary strategy in Mexico...
...In the south of the Mexican Republic, in the states of Veracruz and Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche which border on Guatemala another group, the Mexican Insurgent Army, is active...
...The guerrilleros blocked all the roads and set planes on the various airstrips on fire to prevent the landing of Mexican troops and North American advisors...
...Excerpts from an interview with Vazquez Rojas that appeared in the Mexican magazine Por que in July, 1971...
...These are the goals: 1) Overthrowing the government of capitalists and land-owners...
...what do you see as the relationship between the two...
...do you think that these ideological differences will have a detrimental effect on the unity of the Mexican movement or do you think that they can be resolved...
...If you considered a journalism that went directly to the people and reported their problems then I think there could be unity...
...And specifically, what kind of relationship do you see between your movement and the Chicano movement in the U.S...
...A: Guerrero is located in the region that historically has been the center of the Mexican struggle for independence...
...In the state of Chihuahua, bordering on the United States, a guerrilla group began activities in 1965...
...and so the Marxist wasn't able to unite with the priest who thought the sould was immortal but wanted to make arevolution...
...Mexico, the Latin American country with the highest rate of U.S...
...The Chicanos are in a very special position...
...Genaro Vzquez was imprisoned in the Iguala jail and released through mass protests...
...Q: The case of Dan Mitrione, A North American who trained Brazilian and Uruguayan police in the latest counterinsurgency and torture techniques highlighted the role which the Uited States is playing in cooperation with the repressive forces of Latin America...
...In 1970 actions against financial institutions increased...
...Two days ago there was an encounter in which a patrol of the Mexican Army was annihilated...
...A: In Mexico the head of the political police receives technical aid from and works in conjunction with the CIA advisor in the U.S...
...In a communique issued at the time they stated that they were prepared for further confrontations with the Army...
...the massacre at Tlatelolco was really a turning point in the Mexican struggle...
...It borders the United States...
...workers receive will be increasingly smaller as the struggle continues...
...Its actions were mostly aimed at kand- owners and local bosses in the area...
...But on the other hand, they're treating the peasants with incredible brutality...
...capital investment, has been the scene of increasing struggle for the past years...
...During 1958 and 1959 he played an active role in the battle to obtain better salaries and trade-union independence for the ele- mentary school teachers, and he was fired...
...intervention and agression...
...In the beginning of 1972 there were successive and coordinated blows in Monterrey, A: Yes, this is precisely what is happening...
...Today Vazquez Rojas is known as the leader of the vanguard in the armed liberation struggle in Mexico...
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