EXAMPLE OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
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Lucha Obrera, fortnightly newspaper of our Bolivian section, we are reprinting below excerpts from a message sent to the Cuban revolution by the Peasants' Union of Omasuyos on the Bolivian altiplano, which exemplifies not only the solidarity that the Boliviar peasant masses feel with the Cuban revolution, but also their revolutionary understanding of its methods and their universal application in underdeveloped countries elsewhere in Latin America and in the world.
Since 1 January 1959 many changes, the deepest in Latin America, have been made in Cuba. Under the drive of the peasant masses, the revolutionary government has [...] carried the agrarian reform very far, distributing land, tractors, and other farm tools on a wide scale, because the agrarian reform means, not simply the dividing up of a few estates, but the bringing of technical progress to the rural regions and the organization of production for the benefit of the masses and the
We peasants of Omasuyos are watching with admiration the process going on in Cuba, we support the Castro government, and, with fighting the Cuban rural regions. What is taking ers ce we offer our solidarity to our brothers of
there immensely encourages us, and with this force we are fighting to make the Bolivian revolution go forward and not stall or backslide.
We also hail the wide-scale arming of the workers and peasants of the Republic of Cuba. We are organizing the peasant regiment "Los Colorados de Bolivia," because we are convinced that only the arming of the masses forms a solid guarantee of the
The experience Bolivian revolution has taught us many things. Only the peasant organizalions in alliance with the workers' organizations can guarantee the continuity of the revolution. The minute the toilers stop being their own leaders, far from any pressure contrary to their interests, revolution runs the risk of being lost. Here on the Altiplano in these moments fighting among the peasants, in the furrows, they are shedding the blood of their
May this not happen to the Cuban revolution,
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which in this period is the banner-bearer of the
American revolution. the lands entirely pass over into the peasants' hands. Let farm production be organized nationally in the form of coöperatives. Let technical progress in the rural regions be carried through to its culmination. Let the distribution of products be carried out under the direction of joint organisms of workers, peasants, and government representatives. Let the unions gain daily more deliberative power, and the armed peasant militia more executive power. Let the worker-peasant alliance find real expression: in technical aid, in exchange of products, in centralized unity on a national scale, and in joint mobilization in defense of the Cuban revolution.
Comrudes! Your revolution is the living part, in this period the most living part, of the Latin American revolution. Let us set up against barbarous imperialism a firm revolutionary solidarity of the masses of this continent !
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