Mexico. one reason why this administration and particularly through covert action is doing its best to try to pressure the Mexican regime throughout the world is known as destablizing activities. in the hope that it can coerce the Mexican leaders to join the United States in its activities. in its actions against such countries as Nicaragua but not necessarily restricted to that country. Mexico also. long the proclaimer of the policy of nonintervention. noninterventione. selfdetermination autodeterminatione. is hardly going to abandon those policies that were born with its revolution in 1910 under any pressure we can exert. They have been pressured to do some abominable and inhumane things with respect to the thousands of refugees that have fled the genocidal tactics of the Guatemaltecan army that uses 100 percentthere are no Russian or Cuban or Czechoslovakian armsthey are all American bayonets that have been exterminating entire tribes of Indians in the mountains of some of the provinces of Guatemala. and who have in desperation sought haven across the line in the state of Chiapas. 20.000. 30.000 in the period of 1 week. sometimes chased by the Guatemaltecan armies into the Mexican territory. And when the Mexican national government tried to set up some relief. our Ambassador and our American State Department immediately protested that. alleging that we had received a complaint from Guatemala that Mexico would be giving refuge to escaping MarxistLeninists. Who were the MarxistLeninists there?
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