Word: amilcar
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...year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras $168 million in economic aid, vs. only $78 million in military aid, the Suazo government would like to receive even more compensation for its support. "We have wonderful relations with the U.S.," says Government Spokesman Amilcar Santamaria, "but we believe the level of U.S. [financial] cooperation could be higher...
...these developing nations. Since then, Black Africa has publicly joined the Arab camp against Israel, though informal relations and cooperation continue. Louis claims that Black African countries expressed opposition to Israeli policies "long before oil politics became a factor." Yet, his only example is two quotes from one man, Amilcar Cabral, the founder of the revolutionary movement in Guinnea-Bisseau. He concludes about African opposition to Israel that, "a good deal of it is authentic disgust at Israeli policies toward Palestinians...and at the South African connection." I don't see how one man can be said to speak...
Errol Louis' explanation of the vehemently anti-Israel views of Amilcar cabral ("Too Close For Comfort", 12/2/83) is curious indeed. In 1965, according to Louis, Cabral lauded "all that the sons of Palestine" were doing to "liberate their country." Mr. Louis calls this "authentic disgust at Israeli policies towards Palestinians in the occupied territories...
THERE ARE SERIOUS flaws in the reasoning of both Howe and the Ford Foundation. First, the chronology is just plain wrong. Black African countries and movements were expressing a degree of opposition to Israeli policies long before oil politics became a factor. As far back as 1968, for example, Amilcar Cabral, an influential revolutionary from Guinea-Bisseau, had this...
Secondly, before the Black intellectual can begin to structure any revolutionary discourse, we have to carry out "a radical revolution in...(our)...ideas; a long, painful and difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle." (Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy, P.12) The African revolutionary theorist, Amilcar Cabral puts it this way: "In order to fulfull the role in the national liberation struggle, the revolutionary petty bourgeoisie must be capable of committing suicide as a class in order to be reborn as revolutionary workers, completely identified with the deepest aspirations of the people to which they belong." (Revolution in Guinea...