The classic film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one…
FALN
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This 1965 documentary portrait of a civil war is today a remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background to the ongoing social conflicts in that country.
FALN chronicles key events of the era, from the 1958 overthrow of dictator Perez Jimenez, and the flawed attempts at social reform by Romulo Betancourt's government, to the 1962 emergence of the national liberation movement- the FALN.
The FALN engaged in rural and urban guerrilla struggle throughout the Sixties, but, failing to achieve its desired coup d'etat or to gain the support of the nation's poor, the organization had largely dissipated by the end of the decade.
A compilation documentary incorporating both archival footage and original scenes shot by members of the revolutionary movement, FALN draws parallels with American foreign policy in other countries, particularly Vietnam.
Available for the first time in forty years, FALN was the first film made by Peter Gessner and Robert Kramer (1939-1999), each of whom over the next several decades produced a body of work dealing with social and political issues. FALN is thus also an artifact of the social turmoil of the Sixties in the U.S., in particular the proclaimed solidarity of the era's New Leftists with Third World liberation struggles
In addition to FALN, First Run/Icarus Films is proud to distribute several other Sixties' documentaries by Peter Gessner, including Finally Got The News, Last Summer Won't Happen, and Time of the Locust.
"A fascinating time capsule of Venezuela in the first half of the 1960s. Valuable insights."—The Americas
Citation
Main credits
Gessner, Peter (filmmaker)
Kramer, Robert (filmmaker)
Fuente, Miguel (film producer)
Fuente, Miguel (videographer)
Tollerman, P. (narrator)
Other credits
Cameramen, C. Aguirre, M. Fuente, A. Vargas; film editor, Peter David.
Distributor subjects
Black & White; History (World); Latin America; Political Science; South America; VenezuelaKeywords
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The United States is involved across
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the world are government imposes
its rigid view of the world.
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In Vietnam in the Dominican
Republic elsewhere.
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The politicians who make decisions
for us to removed from us.
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More and more we go unrepresented.
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The words they use to justify themselves
have lost a tangible meaning.
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The government turns more impatiently
against those who do not accept its views.
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The United States turns
not with decency not with
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a mind open to the many different ways
people have of seeking solutions.
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Who does our government speak
for in other countries who are
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the leaders are government
talks to and treats with
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now the view who controlled the
lives of those beneath them.
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But there are others our government
will be obliged to deal with
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Venezuela a sea of oil controlled
by American companies.
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If the profits from the URL reached down the
8.5 million people would live differently.
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But the profits leave Creole
is Standard Oil of New Jersey.
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To control Oil is to control the country.
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The wealthy float on the surface
living a certain way affects how you
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see and feel limits the range
of what you can understand.
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Do they know very much about
what is below the surface
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slums hunger our insight.
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One lives beside them.
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One stop seeing them.
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They must live around their countrymen.
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These other human beings the
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wealthy have to fight free from the
central experience of their country.
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Live always in a small circle.
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At position becomes more precarious and there\'s
more hollow or unreal more disconnected.
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For them nothing ever changes.
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How much of their own lives do they determine
they live they work as they have to
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And dictator Paris commanders served the
circle who control then as well as economy.
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Here an imposed system keeps people from the
power that allows people to begin to grow.
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Men have no land no say
in how they will work.
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The land. Men have no say
and what they will eat.
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3% of the people own 90% of the land
fertile land enough to feed everyone.
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But food is imported and prices rise.
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Eggs come from florida.
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Corn from Iowa.
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The peasants leave one out of
three remains in the countryside.
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But jobs do not exist.
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Men have no say in how they live.
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People try to escape.
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The city swells up at the rim of hills.
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Go try Caracas.
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14% unemployed population sores
from a 150 thousand to 2 million.
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Here the cost of living is two
times that of New York City.
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The city bulges and spreads out.
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Perez Jimenez embezzle 250 million payment
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for loyalty to our oil companies
into Venezuela is ruling class.
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The estate of Governor Rockefeller.
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President de Paris Humana has also had
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a tasteful proud estate and
to remain as was awarded
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the United States Order of
Merit generously presented by
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President Eisenhower his secret police rain
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while its head was an
intimate of our Ambassador.
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In order to get along
in Venezuela it is not
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sufficient for well-meaning men to
make an honest living from their work.
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Thus isolating themselves from
the surrounding corruption.
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No it is necessary to stay
in the good graces of
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the government to bumper the
governor\'s ending competence.
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You have already arrived on top establish
a reign of ineptitude over ability.
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Bronze medals self obsession
jealous guardians of power.
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And economic down sweating
unemployment increased.
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The cost of living ROE is higher.
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There was a general strike
mass demonstrations group.
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Students took the lead on 23rd
January 1958 before dawn.
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President Paris command is fled.
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First to the Dominican Republican tricky.
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Then to Miami the demonstrations
continued during the 23rd
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300 students were killed by the
secret police. The dictator
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thrown they feel ten years
of his power washed away.
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Perez Jimenez had not
allowed organized unions.
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He shut down newspapers.
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Universities were often close
to discourage opposition.
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One of his laws read the military
authorities shall repressed
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drastically and that fraud against
persons or property. People ask
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Land be given to peasants will there be
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employment houses to live in
well unnecessary changes begin.
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All through the country the
revolution unlocked people.
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People flooded the streets drawn
out ignited by the possibility.
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People celebrating hoping
people springing forward.
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People held on a leash too long.
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People toiled with and forgotten and
held back and treated like things.
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The unfathomable wild energies destruction.
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Hope they go to release
the political prisoners.
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Shut away abused for what one believes that
deep moral isolation remains unbroken.
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Except perhaps in quiet
conversations with a friend.
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Families broken hands bodies broken.
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I could hear the one being tortured scream.
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We all heard his screen.
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Men learn to live inside themselves.
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Whether a political prisoners there
are many locked away who dared
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nothing innocence ONE someone
whispered about or pointed at.
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Now they hunt out the secret police.
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The arm of the dictator must be broken.
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Legacy of stupid reality.
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In these first days the
rank and file of the army
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or close with the people
they fight together.
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The High Command and the army is split.
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But they agree that they don\'t
want this to go to five.
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Still they do not dare to
try to stop the people.
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Yet the secret police make the last
end of the regime they think at
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the time that they have the most to lose they
do not realize there\'ll be employed soon.
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Again. They evoke a fury for the
people they are the agents of
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L President days oppression and their power
was a power no man should have. And then
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for the first time during the revolution
soldiers are at odds with the crowds.
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Still people mass around the
headquarters of the secret police.
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The AMI holds them back as they have
before as they will again soon.
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An agent is caught affected
the rage of ten years.
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150 dead in this small battle
political prisoners slotted in
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theirselves headquarters
of the secret police files
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records names control over daily lives.
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A primitive knife. The Holy Mother.
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How many died in these cells
and then the faces of
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the secret police sometime is less than one
expects those strangely vacant daily faces.
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A little prosperous. A little afraid
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Expendable technicians how deep was
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the revolution what had been for what was
wanted a government contact was formed.
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There were four colonels or
from the Paris command as army.
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At its head was Admiral
Wolfgang and lot of isabell
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they met in the high chambers with
their Spanish colonial field.
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With the encrusted carved
ceilings Land work education.
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They spoke as among old friends
and intimate circle. The people
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this talk and the room among old friends
isolated talk disconnected talk.
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And the people unity around
the new government Quinta
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or called the unity around
this winter that represents
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the same ruling circles the same ones
who had used Paris command says.
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Those in exile could come home again.
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More fortunate than the
political prisoners.
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They had been able to continue writing
speaking planning for this day.
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My chador leader of the Communist Party.
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He do supports the new hometown
joins a call for unity.
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What had they done all these years
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living off plans.
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It is one thing to give up
one\'s country voluntarily
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caldera leader of the Christiane
Democrats E2 calls for unity.
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They return. Others too closely associated
with Paris command is go into exile.
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They had been allowed to leave.
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They simply pass those who are
coming back for this office.
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So much has changed that he must leave.
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The revolution has reworked his
whole world but for others
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vast number nothing at all has changed.
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All is just as it was just as it will be.
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And more return each with his picture of
what has happened of what must happen now.
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The leaders whose profession
whose life this is.
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Now they are not just
talking in a distant room.
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Now they must begin to alter Venezuela.
If they can
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roman law Betancourt x communists
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follow precedent violent opponent
to Paris command commandos.
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E2 calls for unity.
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In exile he seemed radical Betancourt as
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leader of axion democratic a traditional
party of the democratic left.
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As he campaigns for president
many think IS election would be
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the culmination of this revolution
a triumphal reformers democracy.
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Axion democratically Betancourt a test
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whether the necessary reforms
can be made under capitalism
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Developed country and the elections of
584 awareness with 49% of the vote.
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A politician announces and
program and some people
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listen the educated others in politics.
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Wha what is new in the speech
they argue over the nuances
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down here how many here the speech how many
couldn\'t read it if they had a newspaper.
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They have a simple way of judging
what has been done here.
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They continue trying to lead their lives.
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Where are there changes in their day-to-day
lives they continue and they wait.
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So few even imagine that this is
not the only way men have to live.
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Betancourt past and agrarian reform law.
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Almost 90 thousand land
titles were given away is
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after 2 thousand new owners
actually work their land.
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No loans for seed or fertilizer no
roads into the land no equipment.
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Often the peasant was not
even told where the land
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was a paper title that was never honored.
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I saw the government 2 thousand
act does for the reform.
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It wasn\'t my worst land.
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I couldn\'t work at even with machinery.
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But I got a better price for that land and
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my bass land could bring
me in the open market.
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There\'s a dozen families working on it.
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Now. They\'ll go bankrupt in less
than two years and I\'ll buy the land
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back at 10% with the rod they
themselves have had to build.
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A land reform law is on paper between this
paper and peasants as a vast distance.
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The bureaucracy cannot bridge the gap.
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The government cannot
implement its policies.
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No one speaks for the people
and they are voiceless.
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They are told to wait
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A close friend who drafted
the land reform law
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left bed and caused party
and went into opposition.
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Finally realized nothing was being done.
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My law our law has become a fast.
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I\'m against valence.
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I\'m anti-Communist and anti-Castro.
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When my men occupied the land by force
I tell them to give it back to weight.
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But how long will they wait
how long can they wait
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Vice President Nixon comes to them as well
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How long can they wait until the small part
of them that can still hope is enlarged.
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Things get worse not better.
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From the first Bancor was unable
to devote himself to his reforms.
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To stay in power he had to make sacrifices
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He had to rely increasingly on United
States investments on his own military and
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the ruling interests they oblige him
to go slow its program disintegrates.
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He comes to rely on those same men
who would sustain Paris can manage.
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He cannot or will not create new
centers of power based on the people.
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Betancourt moves steadily
ineluctable 40x to the right.
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Caracas 16% unemployed.
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And the government can do nothing.
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A terrible shortage of houses.
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The government can barely begin.
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The United States oil companies boom.
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Money does not come into the streets
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Attacks against Betancourt
intensified and then
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even his own party split over
his reactionary direction.
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The young Go to form the movement
of the revolutionary left.
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The MIR older men go into
less radical opposition.
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Soon Betancourt suppresses the
Communist Party and the MIR.
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Here It goes on
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Where does it go where does it
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go this street is
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quiet during the shutting down
of opposition newspapers.
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The fury against students the start
of a terror worse than those before.
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Arrests go on around them.
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Their houses are searched.
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They do not remain apart.
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The government tries to crush the
people who would change their lives.
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Meeting resistance the
government terror intensified
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agents from the humanities
days ran the secret police dig
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a poll sort of pole and elite
Goon Squad roam the streets.
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Venezuela was in a state of siege.
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Rom alone to the wall.
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The assassin opposition to the
government was driven underground.
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The suppression tended to unite them.
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Terror made revolutionaries out of
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many who had hoped for peaceful
change through the ballot.
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Reform from within the system
was booming impossible.
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In 1962 after the uprisings of Cairo piano
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and quite aka value the armed
forces of national liberation.
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The FLN was formed to
coordinate armed struggle
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Comandante allele as MAN width
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the FLN Chief of Staff of the
guerrilla front and felt calm.
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By now all could dream
about election should have
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realized that in this country
nothing salt by elections.
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Because an individual who\'s not a
revolutionary and obtains political power
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we did not change the country\'s political
economic and social situation.
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Just because this cannot
be solved by a change of
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individuals but simply
by a change of systems.
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And the change of system
cannot be brought about in
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this country except with
weapons in their hands.
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Publication suppressed leaders
jailed parties outlawed.
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What other alternatives
remained for the people
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One of my sons identifies with
leftist parties in spite of
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the beliefs convictions and traditions of
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the family my son was taken
prisoner during the recent revolved
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He was held naked in a cell.
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Was added primitive savage torture.
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It was submitted to head docking in water
and later upon regaining consciousness.
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It procedure was repeated a 100
activists for the ordinary man.
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Beta_1 cause government was
a military dictatorship.
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Resistance mounted in the
city and the back lines.
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So in the armed forces of National Liberation
chose to strengthen rural gorilla fronts.
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They began to prepare for a long campaign.
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Actions continue in the city.
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The FLN gorillas entrenched themselves.
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This was the start.
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Before the birth of the FLN
political alternatives were
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polarized between the liberal democracy
that Betancourt represented and
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the conservative communist
party both were equally
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separated from the conditions and
needs of the people of Venezuela.
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But Castro\'s CRM I asked her campaign
was an example of another way. There
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and began to build an island
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a new society within the unproductive
body of a stagnant society.
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They defended it with arms.
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Contact was made with the
people and the movements well.
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Their success the accomplishments of
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the revolution provided inspiration
throughout Latin America.
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It revealed the limitations of many
of the older leaders. In Venezuela.
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This kind of revolution is beginning.
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A new generation of
revolutionaries makeup the FLN
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students army officers workers
professors peasants a senator
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inexperienced various flexible.
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Now they are in close touch with the
actual basis of life and their country
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their movement can grow and deepen and retain
its relevance to the life around them.
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And this new life also changes them.
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At first they sabotage to call attention
to the state of things and their country.
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They thought in terms of
imminent insurrection.
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But they realized that
victory was not that close.
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Now they stressed strategic
Rural Action organizing
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continues and unions factories slums
within the army rank and file.
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But all aims at strengthening this
armed struggle in the countryside
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The FLN began to build itself into
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the countryside to gradually increase
its territories of operations.
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In Miranda state and felt calm
and a lot of what the Giza and
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Tokyo for separate fronts with
extensive peasants support of
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these gorillas most had never
known anything but city
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life university life before they politics
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were limited by their experience hasn\'t
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the former military sons of the
wealthy workers all live together.
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The gifts the information
the differences mingle.
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The girl cleaning her submachine.
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Gun was a student.
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Comandante all guys act during the years of
sabotage or escape from prison a famous.
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They begin to establish ways different
from the society around them.
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The FLN grows.
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The society outside stiffens
against all descend in
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1964 there were 1500 political
prisoners and the government jails.
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They live and work in groups of 45.
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The squads are arranged widely in
concentric circles around the headquarters.
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They gain the confidence of the peasants
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without their cooperation and friendship
with the gorillas could not survive.
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They remain responsive to the peasants.
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In Florida for example viewed at present
sanitation education government.
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We have open schools we are for the sick.
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We have formed civil institutions of power
which are in fact organs of government.
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Then as well in armies led by members of
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the US military mission in Caracas
have failed to dislodge the gorillas.
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They have failed also in attempts
to win the peasants support.
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The government approach the peasants in
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the same way the Spanish
approached Indians with trinkets
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Necrosis it changing those things for
Ivan for petroleum for everything.
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We have our first the
peasants are surprise.
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They wonder where all the sudden love.
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But then they finally realized that all the
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love Kim to them because of
the gorillas and management.
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When we went there well nothing cavities
relativity they died of hunger malaria.
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Now they are given things.
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And they realize because our
presenters intelligence
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that the rulers are trying to
drive the guerrilla movement out.
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Cold nights we have a
small Glaucus strikes.
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We have eaten concentrated foods and are
women companies have you and put all those
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it trinkets.
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The peasant take those gifts
and offer them to us.
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And tell us what is happening.
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The enemy has realized
that this methods fail.
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Now instead of coming with a little
present they come in with a machete.
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They weapon they torture them.
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So in fact one mind in the present or the rest
of the inhabitants of the village was hung
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by his testicles to instill fear
in all the people of the village
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And then after torturing him savagely they
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tried to use him as a guidance
but peasant knowing full well
00:26:26.570 --> 00:26:30.169
where we where let the
males were not even by
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force could they used it all
the metadata Scott failed.
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All those methods they
have brought from Vietnam.
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Half-filled.
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It is rare
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for a hard pressed peasant to
be generous with his food.
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Once the gorillas stopped a
truck that was passing through
00:26:56.900 --> 00:27:02.219
the village they told the peasants to unload
the truck and take the food to keep it
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Then they sent the truck away.
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They gather wild rice before
returning to the camp.
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Now after two years they are
largely self-sufficient.
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They live off the land and the
peasants supply them with much.
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They draw together.
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A band of brothers knitted together by
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their common opposition their sense
of what they are working to it.
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By the way of life they now share.
00:27:42.745 --> 00:27:44.579
They had begun to hammer
00:27:44.580 --> 00:27:47.689
a new set of relations among themselves.
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They have begun in many ways.
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In the face of total repression the FLN has
shown a remarkable ability to sustain itself.
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The FLN is organizing patiently.
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It is prepared for a long struggle.
00:28:06.035 --> 00:28:10.054
It\'s roots have already gone down deep.
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And again my wheat.
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Therefore I have my dandy decision
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of all those revolutionaries who
are starting their liberation.
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I respect the opinion of some leaders of
00:28:22.730 --> 00:28:26.759
some countries quad trying to
gain power by pacific means
00:28:26.760 --> 00:28:28.794
I respect their opinion.
00:28:28.795 --> 00:28:34.029
But at the same time I you\'ll
excuse me I am obliged to say that
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they will not be able to stabilize
themselves in power by those means.
00:28:45.360 --> 00:28:50.019
The armed forces of National Liberation
assumed that as they draw close to
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victory the United States will send troops
against them to defend American interests.
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We have interests elsewhere in
Latin America and elsewhere.
00:29:00.565 --> 00:29:05.379
There are revolutionary movements
who go Blanco in Peru.
00:29:05.380 --> 00:29:09.643
Yan Sosa in Guatemala others in Colombia
00:29:09.644 --> 00:29:12.499
Well we intervene everywhere.
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Our present policies suggests that we will