Nicaraga, Cuba Prepare for U.S. Intervention
In its April 5 issue, Inprecor, our sister publication in French, carried an interview with Jean-Pierre Beauvais, a leader of the
French section of the Fourth International who recently visited Central America and tary capacities is particularly scandalous.
propaganda has been concentrated on the question of the Misquito Indians. In this case, as in all those where you have native in Central America and on the support of the world workers movement and of revolutionists throughout the world.
The mass mobilizations in Cuba against imperialism and in solidarity with the revo-
Cuba.
The following are excerpts from this interview that have to do with the preparations problems. But if several thousand Misquitos in Nicaragua and Cuba to meet possible
U.S. military moves against the Central populations that remain marginalized, there are specific cultural, have been moved, it was to protect them from attacks coming from Honduras.
lutionary struggle of the Salvadoran people are on a very high level.
In speeches, discussions, and information meetings on El Salvador the importance of the struggle in El Salvador for the Cuban
American revolution:
based largely on the statements of the Catho-ed it is systematically explained.
One thing has to be clear first of all. Imperialist aggression is already an everyday reality in Nicaragua. Clashes occur every day on the Atlantic-coast Honduran border. In recent weeks, they have cost the lives of dozens of Nicaraguans. The incursions of reactionary gangs are multiplying and compelling the Sandinistas to deploy major forces in the area.
In these last weeks, they have been intercepting more and more infiltrating commando units, equipped with powerful weapons and plans to carry out terrorist attacks, sabotage, assassinations of leaders. I could give a very long list of examples.
When Nicaragua is already facing enormous economic problems, aggravated by imperialist reprisals, it is obliged to devote more and more of its resources to protecting the population. campaign over Nicaragua's increased miliagreed to this. The imperialist campaign is lic bishops in Managua. However, several American senators and representatives visiting Nicaragua were invited to go to the first Misquito camp. Their general impression was that the Indians agreed with this move and felt more secure.
But these televised statements by U.S. legislators were not picked up to any extent by the American press. However, they are of co of plaine.
confirmed by the testimony of priests who went to the areas affected and who contradict the bishops. Moreover, the Sandinistas have invited the Vatican and the OAS to come and investigate. the political and military apparatus that grew out of the revolution, and on the advances of their Salvadoran comrades. This is obviously the fundamental thing. But the road they have to walk is a very narrow one. guan revolution depends on other victories revolution, for its future, and for strengthen-
Another aspect concerns the U.S. The population is being educated that an imperialist military intervention is possible at any moment. This is explained not on the simplistic basis that imperialism is aggressive by nature but on the basis of a concrete analysis--the fear that the crisis of bourgeois leadership may lead to an adven-
The general impression of those who can compare the two periods is that the present mobilization of the masses in Cuba was equalled only at the time of the Missile Crisis in 1962. That is, it is extraordinary. This takes the form of expanding the numbers, and speeding up the training, of the militia; the placing on permanent alert of many reservists at their workplaces; and the mobilization of the mass organizations and the Committees to Defend the Revolution (CDRs). In Havana, evacuation committees have been formed, linked to the CDRs, for every neighborhood and every building. An entire people is in a state of alert.