The text of an article sent by Jomandante mento "Che" Guevara from, "somewhere in the world" to the Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of ‘the Peoples of Africa, Asia.and Latin America was made, public by that body and carried by Prensa Latina in its bulletin of April 17. Prensa Latina reports that it. is ‘to -appear.in the first .issue:.of'a new magazine called Tricontinental which will begin publication pe ane. ‘i en if Seria ae soar . The slogan | is to create two, three... many Vietnams. | It is the time of the furnaces, and it is only necessary to see the glow." (Jose Marti.) It is not twenty-one years since the end of the. last world conflagration | and various publications, in an infinity of tongués, are _celebrating the event symbolizing the defeat of Japan. There is an atwosphere ‘of apparent optimism in many. sectors of the different, “camps: ‘arto; which,-the; ‘world is |: divide gs nee Lit OE cgi nd es ot hold waite ten oul Ar ao Twenty- one years: without: a; | world. wary: in: these. dyer of: itescdmath donirontertis ens, of violent encounters and abrupt turns, appears to be a very high mumber.: But, without! analyzing: the: practical results of: this: peacei for: which alli of us are prepared: to struggle (misery, degradation, constantly: inereas+ ing exploitation.of enormous. sectors of the world);,: it-is appropridte::to “ask whether it is real. :It:is. hot my-aintention’ in these. notes: to give an-account of the various conflicts of a local character that.:havée occured* since Japan’! surrendered. Neither is it. our task, to cite the numerous and growing civil struggles that have. broken out in these years of so-called peace « It is sufficient. to offer. as examples countering the excessive optimism, ‘the wars an Korea, and ‘Vietnam. Aur Lagescdsase et wi done2 i In the first, after years of ferocious: sbougele. the north part of the country was left with the most. terrible devastation in the annals, of. modem, wars” riddled, with bombs, without factories, ‘schools or ‘hospitals, -- without any kind of kcusing to shelter ten million inhabitants. In this . war, under the. deceptive ' banner of the United Nations, dozens of coun-. hie tries intervened under the military leadership of the United States, with, the massive participation of ‘troops of, that. country and Mer dieption, of the conscripted south Korean population _ as cannon. fodder. ; ess On the other side, the army and people of Korea and the yoluntesrs, fron ,...,, the People's Republié of China’ were: supplied ‘and-aesisted: by - the-Sovries ~—— military apparatus. The North Americans tried out every kind of means of destruction, excluding " ‘thermonuclear weapons “but “ing lading, be eeloteelee:. and chemical arms on al limited. scale. -. In Vietnan- fighting has. been“ carried’ on alinost ‘unintérruptedly by’ the patriots: of that country against, — three imperialist powers: Japa,, whose power, collapsed with’ the bombing. of Hiroshima and Nagasaki France ,.. which recovered, its. Indochine se ‘golonies » this defeated power, disregarding® the > promises. ‘made ‘iin a. time of £ ore and. the United States, in the latest rhase, ‘of the! Conflict.” -
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