The Role Of The Communist Party In Guatemala

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The quick targets of the Communist Party of Guatemala, now the Guatemalan Labor Party, are to develop the party's control over work, to expand its impact in and invasion of the liberal patriot government, and to overwhelm the more radical scholarly circles of the nation. The Communists push dynamic Guatemalan political gatherings toward extreme labor, agrarian, and instructive change, strengthen patriot disappointment with US private interests in Guatemala, and depict US remote strategy as the instrument of imperialistic warmongers.

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