Listen, Compañero: Conversations with Central American Revolutionary Leaders : El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua 0942638069, 9780942638066
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Table of contents :
Listen, Compañero
Introduction
Salvador Cayetano Carpio, “Marcial”: El Salvador
Salvador Cayetano Carpio, “Marcial”
The 1932 Uprising
Economic Dependency
The Path of Armed Revolution
“Limited War”
Battle Zones and Liberated Territories
Outside Intervention
Negotiations
On Cuba and Nicaragua
Notes
Comandante Benedicto: Guatemala
Comandante Benedicto
Origins of Revolution
The Military in Power
U.S. Involvement
Ríos Montt's Bid for Power
Renewed Guerrilla Warfare
Indian Participation in the Revolution
Repression and Resistance
The Role of Different Social Sectors
Prospects for Victory
Goals of the Revolution
Notes
Jaime Wheelock: Nicaragua
Jaime Wheelock
Roots of the Central American Revolution
Revolutionary Accomplishments
“Another Cuba”?
The Military Questions
Destabilization Campaign
Nicaraguan Foreign Policy
U. S. Interests
Notes
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Listen, Companero Conversations With Central American Revolutionary Leaders
EL SALVADOR
GUATEMALA
CENSA Center for the Study of the Americas
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NICARAGUA
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Copyright ® 1983 CENSA and Solidarity Publications Library of Congress No. 83-70572 ISBN 0-942638-06-9 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
First Printing June 1983 Printed in U.S.A. To order additional copies, write: Solidarity Publications P.O. Box 40874 San Francisco, California 94140
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This modest book is dedicated to “Marcia!
and to all those who are giving their lives to the struggle for a better future.
Listen, Companero is a co ■ publication of CENSA and
Solidarity Publications.
Interviews: Roger Burbach, CENSA Translation and Editing: Patrcia Flynn, CENSA
Production Coordinators: Kay Baxter, CENSA and Adam Kufeld, SOLIDARITY PUBLICATIONS Design and Layout: Marlene Tobias, SOLIDARITY PUBLICATIONS
Distribution: Holly Peck, SOLIDARITY PUBLICATIONS
The Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) is a non profit organization engaged in research and education on Carib bean and Latin American issues.
SOLIDARITY PUBLICATIONS is a not-for-profit organization that has been publishing materials from the revolutionary move ments in El Salvador and Central America since 1980. Our aim is to make widely available the thoughts and writings of the Cen tral American people as they struggle to create new and democratic societies.
Contents
Salvador Cayetano Carpio, “Marcial”
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El Salvador Comandante Benedicto
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Guatemala Jaime Wheelock
Nicaragua
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C O M IN
"Listen, Companero, I have seen children of four, six, eight years old shot down by bullets from helicopters with U.S. advisors in them. The North American people do not deserve
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Salvador Cayetano Carpio, "Marcial"
Introduction
When the Sandinista revolution came to power in 1979, many North Americans probably had to look at a map to locate Nicaragua. Like the rest of Central America, the land of San