predicts that many of the revolutions in Latin America will go Communist and that the United States will be at war with China within two years.
Bosch, who is now living in Madrid, also said in an interview granted to the Spanish magazine SP and published in the daily El Nacional in this city March 20, that the Dominican army is controlled by the American military mission.
Through its control of the armed forces, the United States controls the regime. This is no longer the old concept of Wall Street's power, Bosch said, but of holding power directly.
Asked if he could reach an agreement with the United States, Bosch replied: "You can't reach an agreement with guns, nor with battleships, nor with bombs. The United States does not tolerate any kind of agreements. It is no longer a political power but a military power. You can't negotiate with someone who puts a pistol to your head. The Americans don't understand that precisely because we are Hispanic we do not want to dishonor ourselves."
Asked about the Communist tendency in the Latin-American revolutions, he said: "No one suspected that the Cuban Revolution was going to be Communist, as it was not at the beginning. In the Sierra Maestra there was no Russian, no Chinese, no Czechoslovak with Fidel Castro. Nevertheless, it ended up going Communist.
"The same will happen in other countries; they are turning toward the Communist orbit because they have to save themselves, since even the revolutionaries have to get support somewhere so as not to lose everything."
Bosch said that "today you can't be a free man in the Americas."
Asked if it is not possible to raise a genuinely independent banner in some country the way Fidel Castro did in the first stage, Bosch replied:
"The Hispanic-American problem is intimately linked with the preservation of the power of the United States, which is the most powerful country on earth in military terms. It is no longer a civil nation but a military power and it functions as such.
“Wherever it is faced with a conflict, in place of employing intelligence to solve it, it utilizes force. Thus the destiny of Hispanic-America is indissolubly linked with the immediate or near future of this military power which has before it a perspective which I don't envy it -- they are going to attack China; this cannot be avoided.
"When this attack comes, the United States is going to use the Latin-American armies to claim that it is a struggle of the free countries of the world against Communist oppression.
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"From that moment on, the armies which today serve as its most direct instrument of power, are going to turn more nationalist than Sim6n Bolivar. Today they get their orders from Washington, but when that time arrives they are going to initiate a struggle against the North American power. This is already in sight -- within two years at the most.
Bosch said that the Americans had divided everyone living in Hispanic-America into two bands, those deserving death -- the Communists -- and those deserving all the prizes, dollars and the praise of the press -- the anti~Communists.
"The Communists," Bosch observed, "are the ones who disagree with them; and the anti-Communists are all those who serve then.
"It's the same as in the time of Felipe II when you were either a Catholic or you were a lutheran. Today in the Americas the Communists have to kill anti-Communists and vice versa. It is a war to the death."
Speaking about his leaving the Dominican Republic, he said that he "could not resist the pressure of the propaganda, of the secret agencies and of the American press. In my country, this pressure is intolerable."
He added that another reason for leaving was the very violent and tragic situation in the Dominican Republic itself.
"If I were there I would have to conduct a very strong opposition or begin conspiring. In the former case I would protect the conspirators. In the second, I would join them. I don't accept this role, because everything that is being cooked up there is being directed by a cook who is not a Dominican; I don't want to participate in this dish.
Bosch said that in the June 1966 elections he had to play the role of candidate against his own wishes. "I didn't want to, but no one who was asked to run as the party's candidate would accept. I had to accept, because if there had been no elections we would still have had the Yankees in the country.
"We continue to have them, but no longer with tanks and planes; now they are there as technicians, as diplomats and as agents of the Alliance for Progress.
"In reality, the country is an American subcolony. And I say subcolony because colonies involve a responsibility to the colonial people, the citizens of the colonial power and the international organizations, while subcolonies have all the advantages for the colonialists and none for the colonized people. It is a ‘colonialism without the forn.'
Asked who controlled the army, Bosch replied: "Well...it is controlled from outside Santo Domingo. The armed forces are under the dominion of the American military mission. This is the case with many Hispanic-American countries; through their control of the armed forces, they control the regime. This is no longer the old concept of Wall Street's power but of holding power directly."
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