REMARKS OF SOCIALIST ROAD IN LATIN AMERTCA
Last week, in reporting a call by Francisco Julido for a Continental Congress of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, we quoted the Brazilian peasant leader as warning that there is "no other way out except armed struggle in Latin America." The March 3 issue of Hshinhua carries additional parts of special interest in this speech which Juliao made in Havana March 1:
"'The road Latin America is to take is the road of Cuba, and Venezuela has already embarked upon this road.'
"there is no way out but revolution for the situation in
10- Venezuela, and this is more or less the case. with the whole of _ Latin America except the free land of Cuba .
"Referring to the misery brought to the Latin-American peoples by U.S. imperialist exploitation, Julido said: ‘Cen millions upon millions of people remain in that state? We cannot allow U.S. imperialism to plunder the resources of coyntries on this continert or elsewhere.
"He stressed: ‘In Latin America, not a single patriot ‘is standing aloof from the struggle for burying North American imperialisn. *
"Juliao said: ‘Liberty has to be paid for. Oxe even has to shed one‘*s own blood in order to win it. We don't believe in the peaceful road. It is impossible to effect the transition from capitalisn to socialism peacefully.
"*'It would be ideal and mervellous to replace the capitalist systen with the socialist system without costing the ae a drop of blood. But this is impossible.’
"Julido recalled that the Russian Revolution had triumphed under the leadership of great Genin at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. In glorious China led by liao Tse-tung, ths victory of the revolution cest hundreds of millions of lives.' In this respect, Juliao also referred to the struggles of the Vietnamese and Cuban peoples,
"The road of revolution was beset with hardships and difficulties and Cuba bore witness to this, Juliao declared, and quoted a Cuban militiaman as saying: ‘A revolutionary should “pe the last to eat, the last to go to bed, but should be the first to lay down his life whenever necessary.’
"In conclusion, he said, ‘The revolutionaries are nat those who sit on doorsteps with folded arms to watch the corpse of imperialism carried past, but those who rally the masses to make 4 revolution.”
LUIS SARLOS