from Hsinhua
All over Latin America democratic forces have denounced the U.S. as being the instigator of the military coup in Brazil. In Uruguay on April 3rd, 8,000 people met in front of the National University in support of the Brazilian poople. Representatives of several poli-~ tical parties and popular organisations attended. iteferring to the Brazilian coup d'etat, Jose Cardozo, of the Socialist Party saids "The Latin Amorican peoples should draw a lesson from the coup d'etat in Brazil and organise themselves to seize victory and defend it along the road which the reactionaries compel them to take." Aricl Collazo, of the left-wing Liberation Front, stressed the need for the left-wing forces to strengthon their unity and take immediate measures to oppose oligarchy. Other ropresentatives included ones from the Central Union of Uruguayan Workers, the Uruguayan Federation of Univer sity Students, and the cano growers of Artigas who last month marched on the capital demanding land reform.
Cuban papers are emphatic in their denouncement of the U.S. in this matter. Hoy said on April 2nd that the coup was "conceived, planned, financed and ordered by Washingtone.." The press, news agencies and official documents of Washington every day accused Goulart of failing to take part in the U.S. plan against Cuba, and of carrying out his foreign policy which respects the right to self-determination of other peoples, the paper added. The same day Z1 Mondo said that the real reason for the coup was that U.S. monopoly groups and tho Brazilian oligarchs opposed the policies of the Goulart Government.
In Argentina, the Argentine Vanguard Socialist Party has issued a statement denouncing the coup against the Goulart Government. The "Sixty-two Trade Unions" of the Peronist Party in a statement also denounced the coup as being staged under the pretext of "anti-international communism", but actually being designed to maintain the exploitation of the Latin American people by the local oligarchy and U.S. monopolies. The Argentine Movoment of Unity and Trade Unions! Coordination has sent a message to tho Brazilian workers general command supporting its struggle against the coupe The Argentine Socialist Party has also issued a statement denouncing the coupe
The Mexican paper Diario 1e Mexico said on April 2nd that certain Brazilian officers had long been counting on Pentagon support to over throw the Goulart Government at the decisive moment. The paper continued, U.S. imperialism wanted to overthrow Goulart because it had expropriated a number of latifundia and foreign enterprises.