Ideology and Strategy
This ideology and strategy have been consecrated by "law" in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile. In Brazil the law of "national security" makes it a legal offense "to give moral offense to a person clothed with authority for reasons of political inconformity." The Argentinian law of "national security" is directed against what it terms the "interior enemy," that is, "those who, in order to achieve their ideological postulates, use or promote means that are contrary to the constitutional order and social peace." Chilean law defines "national security" as "the whole of the means that are useful to conserve the national economic patrimony" and forbids the spreading of "tendentious information" as well as "calumny, insult and defamation" of any civil or military authority whatsoever. The Bolivian law of "national security," "considering that the nation needs a climate of permanent order and tranquility to achieve its goals of development," bans all acts that impede the "achievement of national development".
In Venezuela the recently passed "law of security and defense" permits the executive to declare under military jurisdiction any matter that "threatens the security of the nation". On the third anniversary of his military coup in Chile President General Augusto Pinochet introduced four new "Constitutional Acts" and declared:
National security thus understood emerges as a concept destined not only to protect the national integrity of the state, but very specially to defend the essential values that make up the national soul or tradition, since without them national identity itself would destroy itself. And from this firm pedestal, national security projects itself dynamically to the field of development, thus focussing not only on the material plane, but on harmony and at the service of the spiritual progress of man. National security, including the authentic tradition and national development, spiritual as well as material, thus appear as the integral elements of the common good of a particular community. . . .
What, exactly, does this enemy consist of in the world of today? Marxism is not a doctrine that is simply wrong, like so many others in history. Marxism is an intrinsically perverse doctrine, which means that everything that emerges from it, no matter how sane it may appear on the surface, is impregnated with the poison that corrodes its root. That is what it means to say that its error is intrinsic and therefore global, in terms in which no dialogue or transaction is possible with it. Nonetheless, contemporary reality indicates that Marxism is not only an intrinsically perverse doctrine. It is also a permanent aggression, that today is at the service of Soviet imperialism. . . . This modern form of permanent aggression produces a nonconventional war in which territorial invasion is replaced by the attempt to control the state from within. To that end, communism uses two tactics simultaneously…
