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18 SOCIALIST ACTION APRIL 1992

Yugoslavia

Dear editors, 1 greatly appreciated Gerry Foley's article, "Stakes are high in Yugoslav Civil War," in the November issue of SA. I found it particularly valuable in contrast to the lead article by George Buchanan in the Nov. 29 issue of The Militant [reflecting the views of the Socialist Workers Party] titled, "Sanctions in Yugoslavia not in workers' interests."

Buchanan's article provided just one more example of the José Ramón García Gomez, a leader of the Mexican Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT) was the victim of a political kidnapping Dec. 6, 1988, in Cuautla. His party, like Socialist Action, adheres to the Fourth International, the world organization of revolutionary socialists founded by Leon Trotsky.

The PRT has information that the Mexican government has received more than 6000 letters and telegrams from around around the world demanding that he be brought back alive.

At the beginning of this year, the Mexican president, Salinas de Gortari, decided to allow a new special prosecutor to take charge of investigating the case. Daniel Estrella, lawyer and member of the national SWP's political bankruptcy and confused attitude toward world events. The article ignores what should be the central issue-the terroristic nature of the Yugo-Serbian assault on Croatia-and focuses instead on the European Community's (EC) sanctions, which The Militant asserts (echoing the Stalinist Milosevic regime) "will only increase the hardship of Yugoslav working people.

What The Militant's article fails to address, and what Gerry Foley discusses quite clearly, is that the real assault on working leadership of the PRT, was appointed, indicating the pressure that the Mexican government was under.

On March 20, Estrella and Edgard Sanchez were going in a helicopter to Corral de Piedra, in the state of Guerrero. Accompanying them were a member of the National Commission on Human Rights and several Guerrero judicial officials. They were trying to confirm a hint they got earlier that day that the main suspect in the kidnapping of José García was there.

At about 10:45 am the helicopter crashed. Three people died. Estrella and Sanchez have multiple fractures. As of March 26, they were out of danger but still in the hospital.

Early reports by inhabitants of people's interests lies in the terrorist methods used by the Yugoslavian government to force Croatian citizens to flee their homes and villages.

In fact, a Croatian student who spent last year with us as an exchange student has been virtually unable to communicate with her parents because, after being driven out of their town by Serbian-led forces, they are in hiding. This has been the story for many terrorized Croatian working people.

Donald Winters Minneapolis, Minn.

the area indicated that the helicopter had been shot down. This should be confirmed by the special inquiry commission that has been set up.

In this situation, it is urgent to relaunch a flood of letters and telegrams to the Mexican government to demand (1) A full inquiry on the events in which Daniel Estrella and Edgard Sanchez were injured; (2) the speedy arrest of Antonio Nogueda Carvajal, former chief of the state police of Morelos, believed to be the main person responsible for the arrest-abduction of García; (3) that José Ramón García be brought back alive.

Letters and telegrams should be sent to Lic. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Presidente de México, Palacio Nacional, México, DF, México. Send copies to PRT, Av. Xola 181, Col. Alamos, 03400, México DF, México.

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The Marxist views expressed by your writers mirror my own views. I especially like Barry Sheppard's column, "Learning about Marxism."

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