SWITCHES ITS LINE
Santo Domingo
To proclaim the possibility of a peaceful revolution in Latin America is a lie, Dr. José Francisco Pefia Gémez, general secretary of the Partido Revolucionario Dominican, has finally admitted.
Dr. Pefia Gémez himself has thus affirmed that only a government representing the workers can solve the problems afflicting the people. He used this language at a meeting at the party headquarters here September 23.
His statements represent a turn of 180 degrees in the political line of the PRD, a party that participated in the national elections June 1, 1966, during the occupation by American troops.
Dr. Pefia Gémez was profuse in his
explanations as to why the PRD was giving
up the position of "creative opposition"
and taking up revolutionary nationalisn,
"a dictatorship with popular support."
He said that recent events had
demonstrated that a "peaceful revolution
in Latin America is a lie" due to the
fact that the United States will not per-
mit the structural changes which the
nations of this continent are demanding
today.
"We are located in the Caribbean
where the United States does not permit
peaceful revolutions," he said.
A group of PRD workers at the meet-
ing decided to back the thesis of a dic-
tatorship with popular support. This
thesis was advanced by Juan Bosch from
Madrid where he is living at present.