Communists Realize Power In El Salvador

npr ^ | 3/20/09 | by Jason Beaubien

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1985 : (EL SALVADOR: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ‘MEDICAL AID,’ SAND BRIM, FLIES AN AMERICAN NEUROSURGEON TO SAN SALVADOR TO OPERATE ON THE LEADER OF THE MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, ‘GENERAL’ NIDIA DIAZ; SHE WAS ASSISTED BY M.A.S.H. ACTOR MIKE FARRELL. BRIM WOULD LATER BECOME A SPOKESWOMAN FOR ‘CODE PINK’) And in 1985, [current 2003] Code Pink spokeswoman Sand Brim, who was then the executive director of Medical Aid, flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on the combat-wounded hand of Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz, whose group had recently murdered four American Marines and nine civilians. (MASH star and celebrity “antiwar” activist Mike Farrell assisted in the general’s surgery.) ——— “Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink,” By John Perazzo, Frontpagemagazine.com, December 8, 2003

[Gene Eric]

That’s funny.

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(snip)...The radical Left owes a great debt of gratitude to David Fenton. He has mixed Neo-Marxist ideology with junk science, trial lawyers, labor, progressive millionaires, politicians, and radical policy wonks to construct a complex, moneymaking left-wing advocacy empire. Fenton Communications reported billing $6 million dollars in 2002, and will likely make much more this year with high profile clients like The Heinz Family Foundation, the aforementioned Open Society Institute and Moveon.org.
Fenton has never forgotten his radical 60s roots, and surrounds himself with like-minded comrades. His client list has included the Cuban-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and Grenada's Maurice Bishop, who welcomed hundreds of Cuban and Soviet “advisors” to his small island before radical Marxist members of his own cabinet murdered him in October 1983 (Ten days later, the US invaded Grenada, and ended all Cuban military construction projects).
Fenton Communications also had no trouble taking money from El Salvador's revolutionary Marxist guerillas, the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), a group responsible for thousands of innocent deaths in that country's thirty-year civil war. Fenton’s organization has also served as the mouthpiece for Nicaragua's Sandinistas.
---------------- "America's Red Army," Frontpage Magazine.com ^ | 9/1/04 | Jennifer Verner

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Mara Salvatrucha, the MS-13 gang, a network of Marxist paramilitary guerillas from El Salvador, is one of the most dangerous Latino gangs in the United States. It is unique among gangs within the US in that it maintains active ties with members and factions in El Salvador. More than one million people fled from El Salvador civil war in the 80s and 90s. The Salvadorian refugees and immigrants initially settled California and Washington, D.C.. Some had ties with La Mara, a violent street gang from El Salvador. Others had been members of the Marxist paramilitary group Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL) during the war. FMNL was made up of Salvadorian peasants who were trained as Marxist guerilla fighters. Many were adept at using explosives, firearms, and booby traps. Most settled in the established Hispanic neighborhoods of the "Rampart" area of Los Angeles. In the late 1980s, members of La Mara and FMNL formed what is now known as the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) street gang in Los Angeles. MS quickly developed a reputation for being organized and extremely violent. MS membership continues to be fed by refugees from groups like FMNL. .......----------------5 posted on 03/01/2005 12:14:55 AM PST by XHogPilot