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weapons cache for Fidel’s rebels. But, de Menil’s collusion the one truthful thing in the article: that Congressmen Cancino with Castro would not last beyond the early years of the Cuban and Leo´n made presentations against the British and the Za- Revolution. By 1961, the very same Houma facilities were patistas at Schiller Institute events in France and Germany. being used to secretly arm the Cuban exiles working to over- “According to the human rights defense groups,”El Universal throw or assassinate Castro. Among those involved in the wrote, “this fact shows that the two PRI members have a anti-Castro shenanigans in Louisiana and Texas were former close relationship with ‘ultra-right-wing groups financed by FBI Division V figure Guy Bannister, mobster Roy Cohn, Lyndon LaRouche,’ among which the paramilitary group Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, and the entire Peace and Justice might be found.” Permindex apparatus that would later be the target of New What the El Universal slander conveniently failed to re- Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison’s grand jury port, is that Cancino and Leo´n, who were accompanied on probe and criminal prosecution of Clay Shaw, for the conspir- their European tour by Mexican MSIA President Marivilia acy to assassinate President Kennedy. Carrasco, were violently assaulted by Zapatista support net- De Menil, during this period, also rekindled his collabora- works in Paris. On June 20, 1995, a seminar and press confer- tion with Jacques Soustelle. By the late 1950s, Soustelle had ence by the three Mexicans was disrupted by 20 hooded Za- shown his true colors, by breaking, violently, with General patistas and their supporters, who sprayed the room with de Gaulle, and leading the Secret Army Organization (OAS) chemical irritants, and threw stink bombs and firecrackers. terrorist revolt against de Gaulle’s decolonization policy in Before leaving, they painted slogans on the wall: “Land Lib- Algeria. Soon, de Menil, using British and organized crime erty: EZLN” and “Viva EZLN.” Journalists, diplomats, and conduits, such as the Caribbean Anti-Communist League, other guests were struck by the fascist squadristi. was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into the OAS, On Jan. 7, 1998, the Mexican MSIA issued a public re- for the purpose of assassinating General de Gaulle. sponse to the El Universal slander, which we reprint here De Menil died in 1973, but his legacy was carried forward in full: by his wife, and by their intimate allies back in France, Fran- c¸ois and Danielle Mitterrand. Dominique de Menil (who died on New Year’s Eve, 1998), became the leading financier and What have David Ferna´ndez and political patron of syncretic separatist-terrorist networks from Mexico to the Middle East. Her legions—protected by British Samuel Ruiz been smoking? intelligence—were behind the 1981 assassination of Egyp- tian President Anwar Sadat, and her daughter spent years • The only promoters of paramilitary groups in Chiapas running around Chiapas, as part of the “action anthropology” are they. apparatus that gave birth to the Zapatista terrorists. • The MSIA doesn’t issue death threats, nor does it advise others to do so.

David Ferna´ndez, in his characteristic lying fashion, has ac- MSIA answers slander cused the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA), the U.S. economist Lyndon LaRouche, and the former congress- men from the state of Chiapas, Walter Leo´n and Al´ı Cancino against LaRouche (these, for supposedly following the “reactionary doctrine of LaRouche”), of being the promoters of paramilitary groups On Jan. 6, the daily El Universal of Mexico City published in Chiapas. an unsigned, slanderous article, which lyingly asserts that Such lying charges are all the more absurd given that Lyndon LaRouche “might be” involved in financing the the only protectors and promoters of paramilitary groups in “Peace and Justice” anti-Zapatista group in Mexico’s south- the state of Chiapas have been Bishop Samuel Ruiz (a.k.a. ernmost state of Chiapas—the which, it is rumored, might “Commander Sammy”) and his followers, such as David have carried out the massacre in the village of Acteal, Chiapas Ferna´ndez. Under their protective mantle, there has been on Dec. 22. a proliferation of illegal actions carried out by the main The article also links two former Congressmen from Chia- paramilitary group in Chiapas, the Zapatista National Libera- pas, Walter Leo´n and Al´ı Cancino, to paramilitary squads, on tion Army (EZLN) and their supporters: land seizures, estab- the mere grounds that they have demonstrated that they have lishment of so-called “autonomous areas,” theft of cattle, “very clear ideological reasons” to support such squads, be- and torture and murder of their political opponents. All of cause they have collaborated with the LaRouche-associated this has opened the door to many other forms of violence Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) in Mexico. and abuse in the state. The entire argument of the article’s “LaRouche=paramili- The accusations of the Jesuit David Ferna´ndez are to be tary” fraud hangs on a series of “might be’s,” which follow found, according to a newspaper account in the Jan. 6 edition

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© 1998 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. of El Universal, in a report prepared jointly by the Miguel award from the mega-speculator George Soros, through his Agust´ın Pro and the Fray Bartolome´ de las Casas human rights front organization, Human Rights Watch/Americas, a group centers, headed by Ferna´ndez and Bishop Ruiz, respectively. established for the purpose of providing protection and cover Samuel Ruiz and David Ferna´ndez have been the benefi- to narco-terrorists, and to attack the armed forces of Ibero- ciaries of substantial financial, publicity, and material support America, especially those armies most actively involved in from international operatives coordinated by British intelli- fighting drugs and terrorism. Soros, in addition to being one gence, such as the World Council of Churches, Greenpeace, of the founding money-bags of Human Rights Watch and a Amnesty International, the National Endowment for Democ- member of its board of directors, is also the leading financier racy (NED), Inter-American Dialogue, and mega-speculator of the worldwide campaign for the legalization of drugs. In and narco-legalizer George Soros, among others. 1996, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, In the context of the ongoing British geopolitical offen- Thomas Constantine, speaking before a U.S. congressional sive in the Western Hemisphere, Commander Sammy and committee, stated that “Soros finances various foundations associates such as David Ferna´ndez are nothing but traitors with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars,” which to Mexico, and paid mercenaries at the service of British come in part, according to a source cited by Constantine, from imperial strategy. This strategy promotes the territorial dis- “drug money.” Could it be that the dirty money which the memberment of Mexico, including transforming Chiapas into Jesuit Ferna´ndez received from Soros was also a payment an “independent” banana republic sunk in fratricidal warfare for the highly visible campaigns of Ferna´ndez’s lieutenant, and ethnic divisions, in order to steal the oil and other strategic Teresa Jard´ı, in favor of drug legalization? resources that abound in the southeast of Mexico. As the Furthermore, over the last five years, the National Endow- MSIA has amply documented, that is the sole objective of the ment for Democracy (NED), which is part of the parallel EZLN’s and Ruiz’s Anglo-American sponsors. Those are the government of Sir George Bush, has handed out almost $3 interests which they defend by viciously slandering the MSIA million in Mexico, supposedly to “promote democracy” and and Lyndon LaRouche—for the umpteenth time. to “defend human rights.” The money has mainly gone to the British intelligence, through the World Council of leading organizations which defend the narco-terrorist gang Churches, is the actual international sponsor of Commander known as the EZLN. The beneficiaries include: the human Sammy. The World Council of Churches, also known as the rights centers of Samuel Ruiz and David Ferna´ndez, which Ecumenical Council of Churches, was denounced in June of specialize in slandering the MSIA and LaRouche; the Mexi- 1997 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “for having financed, can Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human over the last decades, subversive movements in Latin Rights, of Mariclaire Acosta (who is also a member of Inter- America . . . [with] very harmful consequences for the path American Dialogue); Civic Alliance, of Sergio Aguayo and of the Scriptures.” Emilio Alvarez Icaza; and the Council for Democracy of Ju- The World Council of Churches was founded in England lio Faesler. in 1937 as an instrument of the British Empire for promoting Given their documented service on behalf of London’s religious, cultural, and moral relativism, and for combatting narco-legalizers, the only question is: What have David Fer- what its founders called “the diabolic influence of national na´ndez and Samuel Ruiz been smoking, when they go around sovereignty.” This explains not only their support for every accusing Lyndon LaRouche, the MSIA, and former congress- imaginable kind of religious cult, but also their financing of men Walter Leo´n and Al´ı Cancino of what they are solely the so-called Theology of Liberation movement, of which responsible for? Who, if not Samuel Ruiz and the EZLN, Samuel Ruiz and David Ferna´ndez are parts, and which is launched paramilitary groups in Chiapas? Was it not the un- today promoting separatist movements in Mexico, Brazil, and constitutional act of extending their rule over so-called “au- other nations of Ibero-America. tonomous areas” which exacerbated the conditions for bloody That Commander Sammy is a British agent was under- conflict in the region, which now all of Mexico laments? The scored by his participation in the founding of the Inter-Faith only leaders of paramilitary groups that exist in Chiapas are Peace Council, which was set up by British intelligence and Samuel Ruiz and his swarms of narco-terrorists. had its founding meeting at Windsor Castle in 1996. The They must be disarmed, and the Constitution’s rule must protective mantle of Queen Elizabeth II, the head of the Angli- be reestablished over the entire national territory, putting an can Church, is the main political cover for the Satanic evil end to the so-called “autonomous areas.” which Commander Sammy and his followers spread, in their As we have repeatedly stated, ever since David Ferna´ndez defense of a return to paganism and pre-Colombian religions, and other leaders of the Society of Jesus in Mexico a few all of which have nothing whatever to do with apostolic years back began spreading the lying fraud that the MSIA Christianity or the Catholic Church. was somehow involved in death threats, which he and his group claim they have received: The MSIA doesn’t issue Drugs and subversion death threats, nor does it advise others to do so, a fact which At the end of 1996, David Ferna´ndez received a generous Ferna´ndez and Samuel Ruiz know perfectly well.

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