Jaime Ortega*
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In November 1982, the primary Nationwide Congress of Solidarity with the Folks of Guatemala was held in Guerrero, which served as a spot to convey collectively sections of Mexican society. Though assist was prolonged in events and unions to the folks of Central America who have been then in battle, the reference to Guatemala stood out for its length, as a result of completely different actors had gained nice information of its ‘ 12 months of the coup d’état that was made in 1954. From that point earlier than the tragic occasions that led to After the autumn of the federal government, the disaster of trying to the border was moved in Mexico.
It was on the Iris Theater in Mexico Metropolis the place a very powerful occasion befell on February 21, 1954. Known as by the Society of Pals of Guatemala, it introduced collectively a big a part of the progressive intellectuals. The crowded assembly was inaugurated by the president of the affiliation, Senator Pedro de Alba, who identified, in an brisk and reasonable speech, that mates of Guatemala, with a way of patriotism and a continental spirit
They requested for no intervention. Within the congregation, a message from President Jacobo Árbenz was then learn within the voice of Ignacio González Guzmán, during which he stated: With us are the Mexican folks and probably the most genuine values of Mexico
. The president defined: What is actually taking place is that the federal government, with the assist of its folks, has expropriated Guatemalan land, which a overseas firm was maintaining unproductive.
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The vp of the affiliation, Dr. Alfonso Caso, despatched a message during which he expressed that nobody who’s able to solidarity may very well be detached to the occasions in Guatemalan and he assured Guatemala is actually not an area difficulty
. Then, a brief telegram from Normal Lázaro Cárdenas was learn during which the previous president expressed: It’s the obligation of each democratic citizen to indicate solidarity with the roles of honor that folks undertake to take care of respect for his or her nationwide integrity.
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The gathering additionally included the participation of Dora Francisca Syria, from the Guatemalan Ladies’s Federation, and Dr. Mathilde Rodríguez Cabo, who stated, in her private capability: The delicate girls of Mexico should present solidarity in a vigorous protest towards the perspective of those that censor or assault, or ship jobs to a authorities and individuals who solely start the implementation of a political, financial and social program which was began in our nation. a few years in the past
. The veteran concluded with a robust name: We’ll defend Guatemala
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Poet Carlos Pellicer learn his Stanzas to Jose Martí
during which he requested the hero: I want you on this hour / when the navy / as soon as once more destroys Bolívar
. For his half, José Chávez Morado straight attacked the United Fruit Firm and denounced the monopolies marketing campaign of racism and defamation. Jorge Carrión, an essential forgotten mental, identified the honest, dedicated friendship between folks: We all know Mexicans on the hills with trachetes that in the present day are engineered in Guatemala within the identify of a fruit firm.
. Anticipating the worst, he stated: We’re fierce enemies of science concerned within the atomic bloodbath of Hiroshima
. All these voices have been included in a booklet with the assist of the neighboring nation’s embassy in Mexico.
In Voice of Mexico , organ of the Mexican Communist Social gathering, the quilt of version 827 was devoted to the rally, with images of the principle attendees and with a copy of the Cárdenas telegram beneath the heading The battle of Guatemala is the battle of the Mexican folks
. Whereas the Guatemala Journal -founded in 1945 by Luis Cardoza y Aragón – devoted to a particular difficulty with the title The folks of Guatemala, the United Fruit Firm and the marketing campaign in Washington
, appeared in the identical February. The publication was devoted to the thousands and thousands of mates of Mexico and particularly to the board of administrators of the Society of Pals of Guatemala
and he linked the historical past of the 2 nations: Guatemala liberates in the present day, like Mexico with oil in 1938, a battle for sovereignty and its inalienable rights
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Additionally a part of the Society have been Henríque González Casanova, Fernando Benítez, Rafael Ramírez, Luis I. Rodríguez, Jesús Silva Herzog and Rodolfo Usigli, amongst others. Together with the occasions have been the Widespread Graphics Workshop, the assembly in Mexico of the Nationalist Social gathering of Puerto Rico, the Nationwide Federation of Technical College students, the Mexican Youth Confederation, the Revolutionary Group of College College students, the Nationwide Group of the Blind, the Union Staff and Peasants Normal Jacinto López, in addition to the Democratic Union of Mexican Ladies, amongst different teams.
Months later, UNAM college students can be concerned within the protests, and in November, at the moment the newspaper Partido Obrero Campesino, one of many first interviews with the engineer Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was recorded at the moment. On the similar time, within the left media the identify Castillo Armas was used to insult Normal Henríquez Guzmán, who years earlier than had led a riot throughout the political class.
As is thought, a short time later, that power of solidarity would make Mexican activists lose their lives within the jungle of the neighboring nation already through the first guerrilla wave. Additionally, the highly effective and steady hyperlink between the PCM and the Guatemalan Labor Social gathering would price the life, in 1975, of Professor Hilario Moreno by the hands of the capital’s police, in an occasion not often talked about in unhappy histories earlier than – report Subsequently, it’s acceptable to keep in mind that a part of the historical past of the battle of the Guatemalan folks was written in Mexico and it’s price ready to reconstruct its results with a large view.
* UAM researcher
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