Voice of Sandino: “Anti-Sandinist Radio on Aid from Suriname”

Latin America Report, No. 2601

COUNTRY SECTION NICARAGUA

PA262147 (Clandestine) Voice of Sandino in Spanish to Nicaragua 0000 GMT 26 Oct 82

[Text] Nicaraguan exiles in San Jose, Costa Rica, are very concerned about reports that the treasonous collective could be winning the support of Suriname.

A former member of the state security office who recently deserted told the international press that in the past 2 months there have been secret negotiations between the gang of nine, the Cuban Government and the Suriname Government. Apparently Suriname has decided to join the sphere of the nine who support Cuba, granting aid in the form of volunteers and [word indistinct].

According to confidential sources and reports from our homeland, a delegation of the corrupt gang secretly visited Suriname in September. On that occasion the treasonous collective requested aid from Suriname.

In October, Suriname’s health and environmental minister Lt Badreisein Sital [rand as heard; bureau records list Sital as a sergeant major] visited Nicaragua secretly in order to promise the help of 200 Suriname volunteers for the nine’s totalitarian cause.

Nobody should be surprised that the Suriname lieutenant is representing his country in these talks [words indistinct] his training in Cuba. He has been an ardent follower of the Cuban Communist philosophy, and since his appointment as minister in mid-1981 many have viewed him as Havana’s agent in the government of his country.

It was agreed that the Suriname volunteers who will be sent to our homeland will not be combat units but will be supporters of the internationalist cause. Sital has sent many officials of his ministry to Cuba to receive training. The leaders of the volunteers will come from this group.

Sital deplored the fact that he cannot offer more aid right now but promised that he will send (?more) Surinamers to train in Cuba in order to promote the nine’s cause.

The secret negotiations between Suriname and the treasonous collective decrease the hopes that democracy will return to either of these two nations, a Latin American political observer noted, because with Suriname’s support for the treasonous collective, it could find itself (?in the same sad historical situation) as our country.

Fidel Castro’s government is resorting to every means available to help its Niearaguan satellite find new friends wherever it can in an effort to decrease the international isolation our country is experiencing.

The Suriname lieutenant has proudly boasted about the large number of Suriname citizens who are being trained in Cuba and noted that he could easily send more volunteers to our homeland in order to defend the government of the nine from internal and external aggression.

Sital promised that the members of the volunteer group would be carefully chosen from among those Surinamers who have received training from the Cubans in Havana or other places on that island.

Suriname’s location on the South American continent and among the southernmost Caribbean nations makes this former Dutch colony a very strategic point for Cuba and its allies, the nine.

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October 26, 1982
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