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La Vanguardia; Newspaper from Montaria
Topic Started: Aug 27 2013, 04:46 AM (696 Views)
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Women's Military Division Formed
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By Pedro Armesto
The Revolutionary Directorate has jointly decided that the Montarian army will start recruiting women to set up a 'Women's Division'. The aim is to recruit 12,000 female soldiers, dedicated to protecting their country and the Revolution. The government wants the future army of Montaria to consist both of males and females. The government presented its newest announcement with an impressive parade of female soldiers who have already been enlisted for the future division. Most of them were disciplined, physically fit and their faces revealed a deadly focus. That was because the majority of the women parading in Santa Maria today are hardened veterans from the Women's Army of National Liberation, belonging to the units of Comandanta Ramona and Comandanta Eillen.

The decision to form a women's division within the Montarian army was probably already taken during the negotiations that preceeded the formation of the Revolutionary Directorate. Comandanta Clara, a close associate from Eillen, became a member in this council and is mostly responsible for the military. She will likely personally assume command of the Women's Division. She was seen next to Eillen during the parade in Santa Maria earlier today, in military attire, saluting the troops. The troops paraded through the heart of Santa Maria, nowadays decorated with enormous murals dedicated to fallen comrades and leaders of the Revolution. The formation of this division is part of a number of reforms that will affect the Montarian army in the future. Many regiments have been disbanded, pending investigations after their alleged involvement in war crimes, many officers have been fired or even arrested and the vast majority of the troops has been disarmed.

The military parade was attended not only by the Revolutionary Council and the Council of Ministers, among them prime minister Camilo Canseco, but also by foreign dignitaries of Lomarre and Falsea. Especially the presence of Falseans at the military parade reinforced the growing rumors that secretive talks have begun between the Montarian government and Falsea. It has raised questions whether Eillen and premier Canseco plan on joining the Trilateral Alliance - a communist military bloc founded by Falsea. The recently appointed Montarian minister of foreign affairs, Esteban Cabrera, is not only the brother of the Father of the Montarian anti-fascist resistance - he was also a dedicated Marxist guerilla fighter who fought with the ELN for many decades. This continues to spark rumors around a possible turn to the Communist Bloc in the near future.

The government has refused to answer questions on the matter, and the Revolutionary Directorate remains vague about its foreign policies. Officially, the new republic seeks justice, democracy and liberty. Not much more has been released about the future foreign policy plans. Jorge Balmaceda however, member of the Revolutionary Directorate and spokesperson of the Partido Moderado de Montaria, said that if Montaria would join the Trilateral Alliance he and his militants would withdraw their support to the revolutionary government. Balmaceda openly expressed his preference to join the GFTECA. ''Through the years, the GFTECA has proven to be a solid bloc that has succesfully spread political and economic liberty in Galdresia. There is where we should be looking in our search for freedom'', concluded the former lawyer. Not only Balmaceda thinks about it that way in the RD. His views are backed by Emiliano Guillen and Ignacio Veron. Gustavo Alzugaray, the political leader of the Trotskyist MAC has also expressed his distaste for the Trilateral Alliance. In a communique, he referred to the TA as a bulwark of Red Fascism, bureaucratic corruption and national revolutionary hysteria. Few people however care about what Alzugaray or the MAC has to say these days. The future of Montaria remains uncertain and shrouded in mystery. What we do know for sure, is that our new government has at least some ties to both Lomarre and Falsea and we know for sure that the power struggles have begun. Eillen's leadership qualities will be put to the test during these months.
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'No Socialism Without Women's Liberation'
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316 AR

By Pedro Armesto
Under the credo 'No socialism without women's liberation', Comandanta Eillen has initiated a series of reforms aimed at further revolutionizing the Montarian society and to ''tear down the shackles of ''bourgeois-capitalist patriarchy''. Shortly after the creation of the PRU, Eillen launched the official political wing of the MELN - the Women's Army of National Liberation. The Partido Feminista de Mujeres, as it is called, is affiliated with the MELN and describes itself as a ''radical feminist-socialist'' party, seeking to achieve a true revolution in Montaria that will transform the country into a harmonious, free and socialist society. The greatest obstacle to this society is, according to the MELN-PFM, the social, economic, cultural and political dominance of bourgeois-capitalist patriarchy.

After agrarian reforms, Eillen obviously wants to carry on with her revolution. Through the PRU coalition she has consolidated her political power base and with the PFM Eillen clearly seeks to mobilize the women of Montaria. The movement is, like the MELN, formed around Eillen and her ideas regarding women and revolution. Now that the MELN's war for ''national liberation'' has ended, a new phase in the revolution has begun - which is the overthrowal of patriarchy. According to the recently published manifesto of the PFM, Patriarchy is the root of many evils in our country and the world. They say that the biological-physical differences between men and women has resulted in the establishment of male dominance all over the planet. Eillen sees this as the most important and fundamental division in human society. The dominance of men over women has resulted in women being confined to the home, and as a consequence made them dependent on men. But it goes further than that. The uneven distribution of power and resources between men and women in a patriarchal society has made it fundamentally hierarchical and competitive. ''Men dominate women, but among men there exists struggle and repression as well. It is called class struggle'', explained Eillen in one of her essays. The confinement of women to the home has allowed the upper male classes to concentrate male labour and exploit it for increased profits. The working classes and the peasantry can only be exploited the way the are because of the existence of an unpaid slave class of women existing below them. The PFM seeks to overthrow the structures of patriarchy, and assumes that with it the capitalist system will collapse and bourgeois society will be replaced with a truly revolutionary socialist society without conflict or contradictions.

Eillen's ambitions have already inspired many young artists to worship women and to devote their works to them. The ideology of the PFM has also led to a number of controversial decisions of the revolutionary government. The government has legalized gun ownership for women so that they can protect themselves from femicide and rape and there are plans to create a future parliament in which at least 50% of the seats are reserved for female members. On top of that, companies and public organizations will in the future be obliged to have a ratio of 50% females in their executive boards. Eillen explained that this has nothing to do with ''positive discrimination'' as liberals say, but that such drastic measures are required to break through the established patterns of patriarchy. The government also announced new school programs aimed at eliminating discrimination against women and aimed against forms of education that teach children to conform themselves to their gender identities.

All these policies are aimed at eventually overthrowing ''patriarchy'' and constitute the first of many more revolutionary policies that will likely follow in the future. Rumors about alleged diplomatic negotiations between Montaria and Falsea have also increased. This has resulted in growing protests against the government. Many people, mainly small shopkeepers and company owners, want Montaria to join the GFTECA and enjoy the free trade benefits. Officially the government releases no information on the matter. Analysts believe that the issue is shrouded in so much mystery because the government is trying to walk a non-existent middle road between the Trilateral Alliance on one side, and the GFTECA of on the other.
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Montaria will join the TA
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By Pedro Armesto
The Revolutionary Government of Montaria has released a statement confirming that Montaria will apply to join the Trilateral Alliance. With this decision, following shortly after the creation of the new government party, the Partido Socialista de Liberacion Nacional (PSLN), premier and Comandanta Eillen seems to have set Montaria's course towards socialism. The decision comes shortly after the consolidation of power of the revolutionary groups that overthrew the Dictatorship of Loyola a few years ago through armed struggle. Now that the revolutionary camp has formed a strong political pact in the form of a single and unified party, they seem to want to make a hurry in pushing through their revolutionary, leftist program. Largely supported by women, peasants, students and intellectuals - the government of Eillen has a strong mandate to do so.

There is also criticism. Critics point to abuses committed by the government, such as self-enrichment and nepotism. Opposition leader Jorge Balmaceda of the Partido Moderado accuses Eillen and her circles of deliberately creating 'a new caste of warrior elites to run the country'. He referred to the fact that many former guerilla officers are now occupying key government positions - supplanting a civil bureaucracy with a paramilitary hierarchy loyal to Eillen. He calls Eillen and her comrades a threat to the new democratic order. Ignacio Veron, leader of the conservative Partido de Unidad Nacional, also complains a lot about Eillen's governing style.

''She never responds to any criticism, she never appears before the parliament and she has no respect for us. In her eyes we are a bunch of civilians who collaborated with the Dictatorship, and I know for certain that deep down, she wants to see us bleed. Shortly after the Revolution, when we were still negotiating a government of national unity, Eillen completely ignored our wishes and arguments during the talks. It is as if we don't exist for her. This woman is a dangerous autocrat, who wants to make up the rules of the game: if you're not of any good use to her anymore, she simply kicks you out of the game with no looking back.''

Now that Montaria intends on joining the TA, the international communist bloc, conservatives and liberals accuse the government of building a Matriarchic Communist dictatorship in Montaria - a communist state dominated by women. Inner government sources confirm that the PSLN is preparing a new law that will drastically reduce the number of male legal judges, in favor of women. The People's Assembly is already dominated by a female majority, many of them are a member of the PSLN. If Montaria joins the TA, the expectation is that the government will also start making plans to nationalize certain key industries. These state-run industries would then probably be led by women as well, to promote economic independence for women and to tear down the economic pillars of patriarchy.
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Landslide victory for the PSLN in the elections
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By Pedro Armesto
The 320 AR National Assembly elections have been won by the PSLN with a landslide, as was expected. With 53% of the votes and 10 out of 13 electoral districts, the PSLN is bigger than any other political party in the national legislature and it maintains its majority. Comandanta Eillen will thus most likely have a second term in office as Montaria's revolutionary prime minister. The PSLN has however lost its supermajority in parliament, which will make it difficult for them to alter the constitution in the future. The constitution has been updated many times in the past years, mostly to incorporate the rights of minorities. This will from now on require the support of the Partido Moderado OR the combined support of the PUN and the MAC, which is unlikely ever to happen.

The election campaign has been rough, everyone has received some smacks and blows and the results came in late in the evening. Today thousands, maybe even millions of people are celebrating the victory of Eillen and the PSLN in the streets. Music sounds all over Santa Maria, people are dancing and cheering. Many truly believe that Eillen will bring them a better future. She has given hope to litterally millions of people who now dream of a future of justice, freedom and democracy for all who are different, but equal. Opposition leader Jorge Balmaceda congratulated Eillen with her victory and hopes that the relative decline of her number of seats in parliament will make her more aware of the wishes of other groups in Montaria.

Eillen herself is among the masses in the streets of Santa Maria, celebrating her victory together with her loyal female followers such as Comandanta Clara and Comandanta Ramona. A camera managed to get close to Eillen, asking for her first official response. Eillen only exclaimed 'Venceremos!' (We will overcome!) before the masses pulled her away to celebrate the victory with her. Later Eillen told to the press that this is a victory for those who previously did not exist in Montaria: the marginalized minorities who together form the majority. She called this a huge step in the Montarian Revolution and towards women's liberation. Eillen announced that she will from now on focus more on education, welfare and the active liberation of all the women of Montaria and the world.

These are the official election results:
PSLN: 171 seats, 53% of the votes, 10 of the 13 districts (38 seats)
Partido Moderado: 97 seats, 34% of the votes, 3 of the 13 districts (12 seats)
PUN: 22 seats, 8% of the votes
MAC: 10 seats, 4% of the votes

Eva Villa de Santiago, daughter of the Montarian resistance fighter Juan Villa de Santiago and member of the PSLN will most likely continue to act as speaker of the National Assembly. She is known for her radical feminism but also her ability to be neutral and pragmatic.
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Sudden bank nationalization shocks finance industry
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321 AR

By Pedro Armesto
The Montarian and Galdresian finance industry was shocked this morning when they discovered, that as of 00:00 hours today about 90% of the Montarian banking sector has been suddenly nationalized by the government. This sudden move was deliberately done to prevent shareholders and investors from taking away their assets before the banks were nationalized, causing a capital flight.

Years ago, the first rumors began that Comandanta Eillen was planning to nationalize the banks, but these rumors disappeared after she published her economic program, Montarian Social Economics, which didn't include any nationalization plans. Last night, when nobody expected it, the PSLN-led government nationalized 14 banks in one swift move, including the Banco Travada which is Montaria's largest retail bank and the Gilmar Menem Group, Montaria's oldest and most valuable investment bank with subsidiaries in Lomarre. The parliament has yet to approve the nationalization act, but this is only a formality since the PSLN holds a majority in parliament and fully supports Comandanta Eillen.

Eillen gave a press conference this morning at 8 AM, in which she explained her decision. She stated that she had both fundamental reasons and practical reasons to nationalize the banking industry. According to Eillen, it is fundamentally wrong that powerful and influential institutions such as banks are in the hands of a few wealthy families and shareholders. She believes that any bank, whether they like it or not, fulfills a social role and plays a key role in the well-being of the general economy and national development. She gave the example that private banks can 'create money' for example, independently from the Central Bank and its monetary policy. Eillen stated that the government is having a hard time fighting inflation, and that the Montarian economy is in a crucial development stage that is very vulnerable. Private banks have profit as their main goal, while the Montarian Central Bank aims for a stable monetary policy for the common good. These two institutions are thus conflicting in the eyes of the government, and therefore ''private banking has to be crushed for it is a tool of savage capitalism and neoliberalism''.

Eillen also accused the banking sector of withholding loans and investment to the poor who are trying to set up a local business, and this way private banks are putting a brake on the national economic development. She firmly stated that banks should have the service of the people as their main motive and savings are much safer at state-owned bank deposits. Another reason why the PSLN-government nationalized the banking industry is because they believe that the private banks have been consistently discriminating against public projects, denying the authorities investments for no other reason than to block the construction of Socialism in Montaria. Eillen finally concluded that the bank savings are extracted from the people, and should therefore not end up in private hands, but in the hands of the government which will use this capital for the investment in the recently collectivized agrarian sector which is currently owned by peasant communes and cooperatives.

Eillen didn't want to answer too many questions. She answered to one of the journalists in the press room that the overseas assets of the Gilmar Menem Group, particularly those subsidiaries in Lomarre, will be sold. She could not tell whether there will be management changes in the banks that were nationalized, but she did suggest that the four largest banks will be merged to form one large state-owned bank that provides public service.

Shareholders and investors are furious and have already announced that they will form a foundation and begin a civil trial against the government, demanding that the decision must either be reversed or the government must compensate for the losses.

Jorge Balmaceda, leader of the opposition and the Partido Moderado, said in an official statement that the nationalization act of the government ''made him sick to his stomach when he heard it on the news this morning''. He promised that his party will provide support to the investors & shareholders foundation and that he will do anything he can to prevent this ''historical mistake of the government''. Balmaceda also calls upon the Lomarran king to put up the pressure on the Montarian government to stop with its idiotic policies, which he believes will lead the country to ''Five-year plans and Purges''. The Partido Moderado and the Partido de Unidad Nacional announced a demonstration for today before the presidential palace. 4,000 people are expected to turn up for a protest. It is unlikely that Eillen will see this demonstration however, it is widely known that she is rarely present at the presidential palace for she still associates it with former dictator Vicente Loyola.
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Tensions within the PSLN over bank nationalizations
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By Pedro Armesto

Fulgencio Fabre, a relative of Montaria's first social democratic leader in history, Hernan Fabre and also a prominent member of the Partido Socialista, has expressed criticism on the policies of Comandanta Eillen and asked his party to reconsider its membership of the PSLN. Fulgencio Fabre said in an interview with the PS party newspaper that he disapproved of the government's decision to nationalize the banking industry and that the decision runs counter to the agreed conditions under which the PS joined the PSLN. Fulgencio Fabre stated that his grandfather, Hernan Fabre - an iconic figure for Montarian Social democrats and progressive liberals - would have never agreed to such a reckless decision.

In the article, Fulgencio Fabre claims that the present-day policies of Comandanta Eillen no longer reflect Social democratic values and he believes that it is therefore time to withdraw the PS from the PSLN coalition and instead form a political bloc with the Partido Moderado. Fabre says that the PS and the Partido Moderado would form a great combination; the Partido Moderado stressing budgetary discipline and relying on the free market principles for solid economic growth, the PS stressing balanced regulation policies for the benefit of lower incomes. Fabre wants a political coalition of 'the Centre', attracting both classical liberals and fiscal conservatives from the right and lower middle class families and workers from the left. Such a bloc would join the moderate and pragmatic forces and establish a government with a much more balanced and durable program for the development of the country.

Some other Social democratic figures within the PS have cautiously expressed their support for Fabre's criticism and recommendations. Bernardo Escarra, leader of the PS who got the party into the PSLN, has responded with anger. He felt 'betrayed' by Fabre and states that the PS will continue to remain part of the PSLN. Escarra says that leaving the PSLN is not an option, since that is exactly what ''neoliberalism wants''. The opposition wants the PSLN to fall apart as part of its ''divide and conquer'' strategy.

Eillen herself also commented on the criticism of Fulgencio Fabre, which she considers an ''anti-revolutionary and anti-socialist attack''. In a harsh response she said: Socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land after the foundations of socialist economy are created. Socialist democracy, Proletarian democracy, consists in the manner of applying democracy; in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of the rich and the powerful: the dominant, white, religious, bourgeois upper class male. This cannot be done through a small, leading clique of revolutionaries. This must be done through the active participation of the masses, it must be under direct control of the public. The PSLN is much more than a political party of which the Partido Socialista and the Social democrats are part of. The PSLN is part of a broad mass movement that is working towards the establishment of Socialist democracy. If the Social democrats, who have socialist democracy written in their own political label, decide to walk away from the PSLN and the movement, they walk away from Socialist democracy to join the side of the entrenched upper classes and neoliberalism.

A political schism within the PSLN could be potentially disastrous for the government, since the moderate Social democratic platform within the party still attracts a significantly large number of voters and delivers many of the parliamentary backbenchers for the PSLN. The government could lose its majority in the National Assembly and it would result in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in Montarian politics. Without the PS, the PSLN risks ending up as a radical party on the margins of the political field like the Trotskyist MAC is now.



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The tensions between the People's Republic of Falsea and the Democratic Union have sharply increased over the past few days when it became known that a neighboring country to Falsea, the Republic of Modorsica, intends to join the Democratic Union - a military alliance known for its aggression against what it claims to uphold; freedom and democracy. Louise Rourke (pictured), the General-Secretary of the Falsean People's Party, has expressed his concerns and warned that the People's Republic is willing to use its military might to defend itself against what it considers the encroachment of its sphere of influence by the DU. The Falsean government will consider the Republic of Modorsica a threat to its national security if it joins the DU.

Comandanta Eillen has pledged her support to the Falsean government in this crisis. Eillen points to the fact that countries such as the Commonwealth, Sainam, So'Karsa, Sovreignry and Ikarius are all members of the DU with a history of imperialist conquests - submitting the freedom of other peoples to their greed.

Once started as an alliance for collective security against Fascism, the DU has now become a threat to the TA and all nations walking the path of Socialism. As Fascist regimes collapsed one after another, the DU lost its perpetual enemy and now it seeks to make a new enemy out of Falsea, the TA and International Socialism. Comandanta Eillen has offered Montarian naval bases for use to the Falsean navy out of solidarity.

The opposition is angry, as usual, because they believe Eillen has put the nation's independence in jeopardy by allowing Falsean naval vessels into Montarian waters.
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Comandanta Eillen under fire
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By Pedro Armesto

Comandanta Eillen, a controversial woman from the day she was born, is now increasingly under fire at home and abroad. She has come under fire from her own party after nationalizing the banking sector after which Fulgencio Fabre, an iconic name for the political left in Montaria. Recently, the Arkausan Daily News wrote a critical article on Eillen's decision to allow Falsean naval vessels into Montarian waters. The Lomarran ambassador to Montaria, Besilarius Silvius, who is believed to be a confidant of Eillen, expressed criticism on Eillen's decision. He said that ''this action can scuffle the relations we took so long to create''. Today another storm of criticism was unleashed when the Truth Commission, the commission that was set up to thoroughly investigate crimes committed under the Dictatorship of Loyola, revealed that Eillen too might have played a key role in executing civilians during the Revolutionary War. If this is true, it will be a huge stain on her reputation of 'national liberator'.

Reports from the Truth Commission were leaked to the press and revealed that around 310 AR, five years prior to the Restoration of democracy and when the MELN (Women's Army of National Liberation) was still in its infancy stage as an offshoot from the Maoist ELN, that the MELN under the command of Comandanta Ramona, Comandanta Rafaela [later killed in action] and Comandanta Celia [died at the battle of Lomon] engaged ''in acts usually associated with a Death squad''. Eillen cannot be directly linked to the case, says the report, but it does conclude that there is a probability bordering on certainty that Eillen was involved in the crimes that were committed, because the aforementioned commanders all belonged to the highest ranks of the MELN at that time.

The crimes that the MELN allegedly committed during those years according to the report include torture, executions of civilians and kidnapping. The report devoted a whole chapter to a series of three incidents in which MELN units executed dozens of men whom they held responsible for raping women and young girls. The first incident occurred in a town called Pereira. A unit of MELN fighters under the command of Comandanta Celia entered the village because ''one of their Companheras grew up in that village, but fled after having been abused and humiliated by some of classmates in school while local authorities refused to do anything''. The unit seized control of the village, searched for the ''rapists'' and the police chief of the town. Six men in total were rounded up by Comandanta Celia and executed at the town square for 'crimes against women'.

A similar incident took place in Camagua when a unit under Comandanta Rafaela stormed a police station and acquired a list of all registrated sex offenders in town. The MELN rounded them up, 13 in total, and led them into a swamp where they were shot in cold blood. Not much later, Rafaela's unit entered a town where they paid a visit to one of the MELN-members' abusive husbands. He was kidnapped by the MELN and later found dead in a creek with a bullet in his chest. A note was found on his body in which he confessed to 20 years of abuse.

On one occasion, an angry mob delivered a group of boys to the MELN who had raped and murdered a young girl. The mob demanded the MELN to bring justice. And, according to the report, the MELN did by executing the young men who did it. It is ''unknown'' who pulled the trigger that occasion, but the witnesses that La Vanguardia managed to find said that it was Eillen herself who pulled the trigger. The witnesses in the report describe a ''small, white woman with dark hair, smoking a pipe'' - a description that looks perfectly like Eillen.

The report concludes that in those years, at least 350 people were executed by the MELN as prisoners of war, alleged sex offenders and collaborators of the Fascist regime. It also concludes Eillen must have been aware of 90% of these cases.

This publication has resulted in a storm of criticism. Some journalists and analysts believe that Eillen should be put on trial, others believe she should not be prosecuted and some even justify the crimes committed by the MELN. Radical Feminist professor in Gender Studies at the University of Santa Maria, Maria Cienfuegos, wrote in an article that she fully supports the ''Revolutionary Justice'' of the MELN and believes that Eillen should adopt that radical feminist line again and continue with her zero-tolerance campaign on rape. Cienfuegos says that the act of rape serves to scare women into submission, because only men are biologically capable of it and all men profit from the woman's biological vulnerability in relation to men. She believes that as a result, all heterosexual relationships with men are thus fundamentally unequal and unfree.

Eillen has refused so far to make any comments regarding the issue. When journalists confronted her and asked if she had ever performed executions or if she knew of the punitive expeditions of her own troops, Eillen only answered with her usual charming smile while quickly walking away from the cameras. The opposition now demands a parliamentary debate with Eillen, and will possibly ask for a parliamentary inquiry into the allegations. Jorge Balmaceda, the opposition leader, stated that if this turns out to be true, then he will demand the impeachment of Eillen to have her tried for war crimes. Opponents of Eillen claim that they've always known she was a ''dangerous crook''.

The PSLN seems unmoved by the whole issue. They say that Eillen did whatever was necessary to win the guerrilla war against the Dictatorship to liberate the country, and that this is no way to treat national heroes.
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Hyperinflation looms over Montaria
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By Pedro Armesto

The fears of many Montarians threaten to become a reality. Hyperinflation is looming over the future of Montaria, and threatens to destabilize the economy and slow down economic growth. In the past five years, Montaria experienced a very high inflation rate, caused by the enormous government spending, the growth of foreign investment, the rise in wages and the welfare policies. The BCM, the central monetary bank of Montaria, struggled to control the inflation by increasing the interest rates in desperate attempts to slow down the economy. The inflation, by some opponents of the government jokingly called ''The Price Revolution'', was caused by the massive influx of tourist money in combination with the welfare policies that greatly increased the purchasing power of the lower classes.

Last year, Comandanta Eillen nationalized most of the banking sector, another attempt to regain control over the supply of money and credit in the country. This worked only for a brief period of time, but has now accelerated the devaluation of the Montarian Florín as the publically owned GMG bank has been pumping too much credit into the Montarian economy, especially to provide business opportunities for starters and small entrepreneurs. Economists have been warning the government for a long time that its expenses are too high. The government has been heavily investing into the economy over the past seven years with big projects such as the construction of highways, homes and hospitals, social programs and welfare policies and also major nationalizations and the systematic underpricing of products such as food stuffs, water and electricity.

Today, five million Florins will buy you in Montaria only a couple of hamburgers or an ice cream. The 5,000,000 banknote was first printed in 319AR, now three years ago. Back then it was the highest value in banknotes and could buy you easily a whole new computer or a flatscreen television. Now, barely three years later, the same banknote has devalued to the level of ''small change'', only enough to buy you a beer, candy or a bag of chips.

As a result, many Montarians nowadays try to convert their savings into a foreign currency by opening bank accounts abroad. Experts speak of a 'run' on the Arkausan Acron in Montaria as everyone is trying to save his money by sending it to Lomarre, converting it into the stable Lomarran-Arkausan Acron. The Montarian Central Bank wants to avoid a total capital flight and has set the interest rate at 12%, a wicked rate - but necessary. Others have dumped their Florins and only want to be paid with Acrons and protesters were burning wheelbarrows filled with Florin banknotes in front of the National Assembly this morning. Tomorrow, the Central Bank will release a new banknote - the highest denomination so far - of 500,000,000 Florins.

Comandanta Eillen promised that the government will announce counter meassures by the end of this week. She maintains that the inflation is not indicating that her economic policies have failed. Instead, Eillen and the PSLN argues that the inflation is a sign that the purchasing power in Montaria is developing rapidly and that it only needs more management to prevent the economy from overheating. The opposition fears that Eillen will come with meassures such as wage and price controls or a general revaluation, rather than drastically cutting the government's budget spending and increasing the nation's exports. The future of Montaria has become very uncertain.
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Bloodbath in Santa Maria: government crisis
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By Pedro Armesto
During clashes between the police forces and opposition demonstrators, 22 people were killed by police bullets. There were 31 wounded on both sides. Some 40.000 demonstrators had occupied the square before the National Assembly for the past week. They were protesting against Eillen's policies, government corruption and the economic problems of Montaria. When demonstrators provoked the Revolutionary Guard by throwing with fireworks and molotov cocktails, the police attempted to clear the square. The chaos that ensued led to a battlefield right in front of the house of democracy, which ended in bloodshed when several police units opened fire at the demonstrators.

The police violence had immediate political consequences: Fulgencio Fabre withdrew his support for Eillen and calls upon his followers within the PSLN to do the same. Tensions between the so-called Fabristas and the rest of the PSLN have been building up for some time, and the massacre committed by the police now seems to make the schism complete. The PSLN is not really a political party but rather a confederation of political movements. One of the most important components is the Partido Socialista, historically the party of the Montarian Social democratic movement. Its voters are mostly workers and urban lower middle class families. Its leader is Bernardo Escarra, a former union leader and member of the resistance under the Loyola Dictatorship. But the PS has two wings; the left wing centered around prominent figures like Escarra, resistance hero Juan Villa de Santiago and his daughter who is currently the Speaker of the parliament. The right wing is centered around Fulgencio Fabre, a relative of Hernan Fabre who was Montaria's first Social democratic president in history. The so-called Fabristas have been complaining about Eillen's policies and radicalism for quite a while and they have been flirting with the idea of forming a centrist coalition together with the Partido Moderado - the largest opposition party. The recent police violence has now led to a rift between the Fabristas and the rest of the PSLN. The MP's who belong to the Fabrista faction are likely to withdraw their support for Eillen's government, which would mean Eillen and her government could be forced to resign. The end of Eillen's dominance in Montarian politics seems near.

Eillen however isn't so easily defeated. Her supporters, among them young women, students, workers, the unions, peasants, natives, immigrants, the poor and the unemployed, have gone to the streets to declare their support for Eillen. The streets have colored pink and red, Eillen's image is everywhere. Female troops and veterans from the Women's Army of National Liberation joined these rallies, suggesting perhaps that if Eillen is ousted from power the MELN might retake it by force. The opposition is furious about the police violence and that pro-government supporters declared their support to Eillen so quick after 22 young people had just been killed in a square. Jorge Balmaceda, leader of the opposition, demands an official investigation into the role of the government in the police violence. Eillen called the events a tragedy, and stated that she will do everything to prevent any further escalations.

Meanwhile, Comandanta Eillen, vice premier Camilo Canseco, PS leader Bernardo Escarra and Comandanta Ramona have been negotiating with Fulgencio Fabre and some other Fabrista MP's behind closed doors in an attempt to repair the damage.

Supporters of Eillen are confident that she will manage this crisis as well, but opponents are scared. They fear that if Eillen is forced to resign, with so many of her MELN troops and supporters out on the streets, she might resort to violence in order to remain in power. If Eillen is forced to resign, the game is still not over for her yet. There would be new elections, and chances are that Eillen's person is enough to win enough votes for a parliamentary majority, in which case she could continue to govern Montaria. But if it comes to elections and the Fabristas form a bloc with the opposition, these elections would be a very close race.
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Eillen's Revenge: Landslide victory for the PSLN
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By Pedro Armesto
After the PSLN government lost its parliamentary majority when Fulgencio Fabre and his followers stepped out of the Partido Socialista to form a coalition with the Partido Moderado, Eillen has taken her revenge by winning the elections with a stunning 59% of the votes. The party of Fulgencio Fabre achieved 'only' 5% of the votes, and probably even weakened the chances of the Partido Moderado which secured 29% of the votes - less than in the previous elections four years ago.

After the victory of the PSLN became unquestionable, Comandanta Eillen addressed her supporters from a balcony at the Plaza de la Revolucion where she once more confirmed to be a man - or rather a woman of the people. The streets in Santa Maria and several other cities were overcrowded with supporters of the PSLN, celebrating yet another electoral victory - the second for the PSLN itself and the third victory in a row for Comandanta Eillen personally, who's been Montaria's prime minister since 316 AR. If the PSLN doesn't fall apart again, Eillen will likely remain in office until 328 AR at least. In a radio interview Eillen expressed that she desired to continue to lead the country and the Revolution until 336 AR if the people want her to.

The opposition has accused the government of election fraud. They say that the government abused its powers to manipulate the election campaigns in favor of the PSLN and various incidents were reported during the elections concerning the intimidation of voters in several of the poorer neighbourhoods of the big cities and there were numerous reports of ballot stuffing. The election committee refuses to recount all the votes that were cast, but has launched several investigations into the incidents. The chairwoman of the election committee said that all incidents will be looked into, but that the incidents have had no influence on the outcome of the elections. Opposition leader Jorge Balmaceda is furious and said the elections prove the creeping ''Stalinization'' of Montaria which is the result of Falsean pressure on the Montarian government. Comandanta Ramona called Balmaceda a ''lying dick'' who is the speaking tube for ''Lanlanian imperialists''.

Comandanta Eillen quickly presented her administration for the term 324-328 AR. Camilo Canseco was re-appointed as her Deputy Prime Minister. Canseco joined her side shortly after MELN forces captured Santa Maria and set up a transition government of national unity. Canseco was one of the few available men in Montaria with experience in governance and without blood on his hands from the Loyola-regime. Canseco became one of the most important architects of Montaria's reconstruction after the war.

Comandanta Eillen and Camilo Canseco have together published a plan to stabilize Montaria's economy and finances in the next four years. The telecommunications industry will be nationalized and exploited by the state to generate revenues and the VAT-tax will be increased. The government has also sworn to halt the printing of money, which was used to fund government projects in the period 316-323 AR and contributed to the massive inflation and the rise of shortages in consumer goods. Instead, the government will increase the fixed food prices to reduce the deficits of the food manufacturing companies and lessen the need for government subsidies. The government will also de-nationalize the construction industry again, both to cut costs and to stimulate job growth. Another major step that Eillen and Canseco are planning to undertake is to reduce the regulations in the private sector - the manufacturing industries in particular. Less regulation should result in reduced administrative costs for the government and it should stimulate job growth as well. This meassure will partly go at the expense of worker rights.

Comandanta Eillen, Ramona, Clara and Eva also published a new action program to bring means of production into women's hands by setting up subsidized enterprise, run entirely by women. The government will also continue to help set up grassroots organizations and self-government initiatives in which women from various ethnicities take up leading roles in order to empower them and to stimulate women's liberation. Furthermore, the government will continue its close collaboration with social organizations that combat sexism, racism, poverty, homophobia and anti-semitism. Extra money will be made available for the protection of the environment.
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Police troops respond to food riots
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By Pedro Armesto
The Santa Maria police department responded harshly towards food riots that began yesterday in the lower income neighbourhoods of Santa Maria. At least 20 people needed medical care in the hospital after the police actions. The food riots started yesterday in the barrios of the city. The poorer sections of the city have it difficult nowadays as the government has increased the food prices. Their resentment turned into anger when the local district police arrested a kid for stealing potatoes. People took to the streets and headed to the nearest police station that was set on fire. When the rioting group threatened to move towards the parliament building, the riot police showed up to disperse the crowd.

The riot police, still notorious for its role in the massacre of 323 AR in which 22 people were killed, responded with water canons, rubber bullets and tear gas to the unarmed protesters. At least twenty people were wounded this time, dozens were arrested and most of them have already been released. The Santa Maria police chief stated that this was not a ''protest'' but a ''criminal riot'' as it had no legal approval and because it turned violent from the start. The police chief further justified the harsh police response by saying that the protesters threatened to seriously disturb the public order in the city and that they harmed the tourist industries of Santa Maria with their violent attacks on ''anything within their reach''.

Tensions have been growing in the poorer neighbourhoods of Santa Maria since the PSLN government increased the food prices. Since 318 AR, the Montarian revolutionary government introduced fixed food prices to make food more available to the poor, the unemployed and lower income families. The government had food programs for the extremely poor and it determined the maximum food price for basic products. Shops, stores and supermarkets were forced to sell food below its value, and the government would compensate for it with subsidies. The state also operates its own state-owned supermarkets and food-processing companies that sell food against highly discounted prices for the poor. This was all possible in a time when the collectivization of farmland greatly stimulated the agrarian production which more than doubled. But the agrarian production has been declining, food companies are trying to evade the production of the foods they are required to sell with discounts and the domestic level of demand has gone through the roof over the past years. Shortages have been amounting over the past years. On top of that, the government increased the price ceilings in order to lower its own food costs as part of its program for financial budget discipline.

Comandanta Eillen and deputy premier Camilo Canseco announced the increase of food prices shortly after the PSLN won the elections of 324 AR along with other painful measures to stabilize Montaria's economy and state expenses. Comandanta Eillen responded on television that she understands that these are difficult times for the Montarian people, and that the revolutionary government is doing everything it can to alleviate the pressure on the people. She also harshly condemned the protesters, whom she accused of being ''Rightist agents attempting to disrupt the government's operations to strengthen Montaria's Market-Socialist economy and Revolution.'' Comandanta Eillen supported the response of the Santa Maria Police, saying that ''the police effectively smothered this Rightist attempt to de-stabilize the country.''

Opposition leader Jorge Balmaceda stated that the police decision to intervene was just, but that its use of violence is of great concern to him. He also said that police violence in Montaria is a major threat to the democratic order in the country and he accused Comandanta Eillen of encouraging it.
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Eleven Years of Revolution
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By Pedro Armesto
It has been eleven years since the Dictatorship of Vicente Loyola, who ruled 40 years, was overthrown by a coalition of revolutionary forces led by Comandanta Eillen and the MELN. The outer world, that is the world of big corporations, international organizations and powerful governments - all controlled by lawyers and economists in expensive suits, thinks that our Montarian Revolution entered a new stage of consolidation and institutionalization. What they expected to happen was for Comandanta Eillen and her Companheras and Companheros to dress in the same expensive suits, become learned in the rhetoric of career-politicians and business men alike and start governing Montaria along their lines and definitions of ''democracy'' and ''liberty'' - which in the Montarian dictionary are actually called ''Corporate power'' and ''tyranny of money''.

No, with the defeat of the last Loyola pawn, an even greater war began. The previous war was a local peasant guerilla, fought in the mountains of Montaria at a time when few of those international players cared about this island. This is the eleventh year of the bigger war that followed the events of 316 AR. This is the eleventh year in the war against the past, against the forces of the past, against old habits and against forgetting. We are far from peace. Today, eleven years later, there are still many injustices that need to be corrected. That is why the people of Montaria remain rebels, why they remain patient with the government and why to continue to support Comandanta Eillen. With all the mistakes that were made on this revolutionary path, Comandanta Eillen and her companheras and companheros never bowed to the international powers, they never betrayed their ideals and they never sold out the nation to the big international corporations for a big bank account. For eleven years, Comandanta Eillen has continued our national resistance to the agents that advocate various forms of death; social death, economic death, political death and cultural death.

Comandanta Eillen continues to have the support of the Montarian people, even after eleven years, because she is not a cunning career politician who fakes and falsifies everything. When she descended from the mountains with her death-defying campaign, risking her own life and that of her companheras, determined to fight to the death for liberty and justice for everyone - all Montarians realized that this woman, and those around her, posessed something that the oppressors, the big corporate multinationals and the professional classes of politicians, economists and lawyers will not have in a million years: dignity.

Comandanta Eillen and the troops from the MELN and the ELN were not raised in upper class families, with all kinds of degrees, trained and prepared for a career in politics - without ever having experienced the life at the bottom of our society - that is the majority of the Montarians. They were not trained mercenaries, who were somehow inserted in Montaria with their guns to fight for one of the two sides. They were boys and girls, men and women, brothers and sisters who originated from the Montarian villages and towns. They spoke the language of those who were silenced, their eyes looked at those who lived hidden, their ears listened to the ones who were not heard. Comandanta Eillen's indignation about the systematic violence against women, as part of a system that promoted and encouraged crime and impunity, was of great importance to our nation; A crime so pervasive, yet so burried and hidden during those 40 years that Loyola ruled over this island - a crime that was ignored so that it did not exist and didn't even have to be denied - was the first to be addressed by the revolutionary forces. The most hidden past of those 40 years was the first to be uncovered, thereby making the revelation of all other injustices inevitable in the years to come.

Under Loyola, rape was systematically employed by the supporters and troops of the regime against the women of Montaria. Through rape, the police officers, prison guards, soldiers, death squads and mercenaries - all in the service of Loyola - felt powerful. They felt powerful because they could rape, steal, kill, drink and do everything God forbids without consequences or punishment. It was a way to humiliate and degrade the fathers, the husbands and brothers of those women and take away their self-respect. The purpose was to degrade these people to absolutely nothing: they had no rights, their posessions were taken from them, their homes were destroyed and their women were molested and abused. What remained were individuals of flesh and blood and nothing more. Their lives, and everything they cared about in life, had been taken from them. The Loyola Dictatorship was a war conducted by several social, economic and political groups and classes against the Montarian population and in that war women were part of the spoils that were plundered and distributed by the insatiable belligerents. The regime's troops stripped its victims of what little property they had, wives and daughters were included, farm animals and even the most basic posessions such as clothes. Even bystanders would join in the looting and what was ultimately the hunger for power and domination.

By confronting this past, which was kept hidden, the Montarian Revolution and its Feminist cause touches upon the most fundamental and therefore most sensitive expression of the system that the Revolution dismantled. It addresses the true nature of what happened during the Loyola Era, and therefore opens up the possibility to reveal all crimes of the past, bring justice to this country for everyone and recognition for all who have suffered. Only than can this war with the past, which is in its eleventh year, be won so that the Montarian people will have a future of Democracy, Liberty and Justice!
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''I have lived magnificent days''
Comandanta Eillen's Farewell

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By Pedro Armesto
Comandanta Eillen, or Emilia Cabrera, has suddenly announced her retirement from Montarian politics in a farewell letter addressed to the people. Not only will she retire from politics, her letter even suggested that she is leaving the country for good. This unexpected announcement has come as a shock to the nation. The Mother of the Revolution is leaving us.

Comandanta Eillen, who I personally first got to know when I had an interview with her during the war against Loyola now more than 13 years ago, has announced her resignation as prime minister of Montaria just one day before the start of the parliamentary election campaigns. She has also resigned as leader of the PSLN and commander of the MELN and at present, little is known about her whereabouts. Although a storm of rumors and speculation has been unleashed about her sudden retirement, Eillen herself explains in her farewell letter that she believes that the Revolution does not need her anymore and that it needs to mature without her. But she doesn't give us much more than that.

Some people have speculated that she resigned under pressure of all her enemies who threatened with a coup or civil war, other ''Eillen watchers'' are convinced that she has found the love of her life and that the couple is planning to export the revolution. This would explain partly why Eillen decided to even give up her Montarian citizenship. She was frequently seen in the past year with the rather mysterious Comandante Camilo (centre in the picture), who fought on her side during the war and eventually became part of a southern Montarian peasant commune. The two are allegedly soulmates and in love, and would have plans help set up and train overseas insurgents and rebel forces.
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Brothers and Sisters, Companheros y Companheras, fathers and mothers, workers, peasants, students, teachers, men, women, indigenous, homosexuals, heterosexuals; people of Montaria,

I write to you this letter because an important moment has come. At this moment I remember many things: How my father tought me to fire a rifle in the Sierra Montana, how I joined the ELN and how I eventually organized and prepared my own unit together with Comandanta Ramona, Comandanta Clara, Comandanta Celia (may she rest in peace), Comandanta Vilma and Comandanta Tania. How we encountered difficulties these days and how we at times became so paranoid in the mountains that we even fired at our own shadows. We all knew that in a revolution one wins or dies (if it is a real one). Many comrades fell along the way to victory.

Today everything has a less dramatic tone, because we are more mature, but the event repeats itself. I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Montarian revolution in its territory, and I say farewell to you, to the comrades, to the people, who now are my brothers and sisters. I formally resign my positions in the leadership of the party, my post as prime minister, my rank of commander, and my Montarian citizenship. Nothing legal binds me to Montaria. The only ties are of another nature - those that cannot be broken as can appointments to posts. Reviewing my past life, I believe I have worked with sufficient integrity and dedication to consolidate the revolutionary triumph. My only serious failing was not having had more confidence in you from the first moments in the Montarian mountains, and not having understood quickly enough your own revolutionary qualities.

I have lived magnificent days, and at your side I felt the pride of belonging to our people in the brilliant days of the Montarian Revolution. I am leaving and you should know that I do so with a mixture of joy and sorrow. I leave here the purest of my hopes as a builder and the dearest of those I hold dear. And I leave a people who received me as a daughter. That wounds a part of my spirit. I carry to new battlefronts the faith that you taught me, the revolutionary spirit of my people, the feeling of fulfilling the most sacred of duties: to fight against imperialism and injustice wherever it may be. This is a source of strength, and more than heals the deepest of wounds.

If my final hour finds me under other skies, my last thought will be of this people. I would have many things to say to my comrades and to our people, but I feel they are unnecessary. Words cannot express what I would like them to, and there is no point in scribbling pages.

Vale. Salud.

Comandanta ''Eillen'' Emilia Cabrera


Comandanta Eillen has been our prime minister for 12 years, 3 terms in total. But she was much more than that. She was the founder of our democratic system, the liberator of our country, the commander of our revolution, the voice of our people and the heart of our nation. With her farewell we say goodbye to a Montarian icon, the woman who taught us to be dignified, brave and strong. Comandanta Eillen will probably not tell us where she is going to or what she will be doing. After she has left our country, it could very well be the last time we see her. Wherever she goes in the world, she will always remain our Comandanta. The Mother of the Montarian Revolution.
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Parliamentary Speaker Succeeds Comandanta Eillen
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By Pedro ArmestoIn an official press communique, the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSLN) has announced that the party leadership has decided to nominate Eva Villa de Santiago as its number one on the list for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The nomination of Villa de Santiago, who currently serves as speaker of the National Assembly, did not come as a surprise. There were many rumors that Comandanta Eillen advised the PSLN to nominate Villa as its new political face now that Comandanta Eillen has announced her retirement from politics.

Eva Villa de Santiago is the daughter of Juan Villa de Santiago, who was one of the key figures in the Montarian resistance and guerilla insurgency against the Loyola regime. He was a comrade of Ernesto Cabrera, the father of Comandanta Eillen who would later lead the insurgents to victory and liberate the entire island. His daughter fought with Eillen's MELN as well and played a critical role in setting up the PSLN in the post-war years. Eva Villa, a passionate post-modern Feminist and Socialist revolutionary was rewarded for her efforts with a seat in parliament. As an MP, she devoted most of her time to LGBT issues and the fight against discrimination, racism, sexism and animal rights. Besides being an MP, Eva Villa was also an activist. She gave lectures at universities on revolutionary action and organization and gender studies, volunteered for development and education projects to make education accessible to the poor and she rolled up her sleeves to participate in food-distribution programs for the homeless of Santa Maria.

Thirteen years ago, I was the first journalist to have an exclusive interview with Comandanta Eillen who was rather unknown at that time. Now I had the honor of interviewing ''Subcomandanta Eva'', maybe not as the first journalist ever, but certainly as the first who interviewed her as the leader of the Montarian Revolution.

Like Comandanta Eillen, Eva Villa has that warm, charming smile and an enigmatic look in her eyes. Unlike Eillen, she does not wear military clothes and does not smoke - she seems at lot less militant than Eillen. But that's not entirely true. ''Some media suggested there was a power struggle going on between Comandanta Ramona - considered a radical, and me who would be the moderate face of the Revolution. This is pure nonsense. There was no power struggle and I cringe at the word 'moderate'. This is a Revolution, and a moderate revolution cannot exist. We must all be radicals. Only radicals can push for the changes that are required to make a revolution'', said Eva Villa to me as I brought up the subject.

Although the PSLN is at the height of its popularity, having won the elections of 324AR with 59% of the votes and millions of people pledging loyalty to the Revolution and Eillen by voting for the PSLN again, the opponents of the PSLN are uniting and getting stronger. How does Eva Villa see the future of the PSLN and does she expect to win the elections?

''In 12 years the PSLN has not lost a single election. Despite the claims of Ignacio Veron, Jorge Balmaceda and Fulgencio Fabre & Co, the people support our government. The neo-liberal Partido Moderado, the neo-fascist PUN and the reactionary elements within our society have indeed been cooperating on a more regular basis in a pathetic attempt to keep the PSLN out of power. This is undemocratic. If all political parties work together to keep the winner of the elections out of the government, they are cynically ignoring the will of the people. Yet Balmaceda accuses us of creeping Stalinism. He is a closeted Fascist himself! The PSLN will win the parliamentary elections for a fourth time, because we are a movement of the people. But we are also realists. We might not get the 59% like four years ago. Comandanta Eillen was a powerful symbol, who attracted a lot of votes. The people trust her. I am less well known.''

As Eva Villa is so certain of her election victory, I wondered what her plans are if she becomes our next prime minister?
''I will of course continue the mission of Comandanta Eillen; fighting for women rights and justice both at home and abroad, fighting against the destruction of the environment and the abuse of animals. I want the Montarian Revolution to mature as well, which means strengthening the democratic institutions of our country, stamping out corruption and bringing long-term, structural improvements to our education system, healthcare and the economy to develop a long-lasting Montarian future of democracy, liberty and justice. Viva la Revolucion!''

I was quite surprised by the sudden militancy of Eva Villa, but the message was very clear. If it was up to Eva Villa, the Montarian Revolution would continue to develop in the current direction. Villa's biggest challenge shall be the growing polarization within our society, the constant danger of political violence, the deterioration and breakdown of our national unity and the increasing fanaticism among both supporters and opponents of the government and the PSLN. Can she prevent another civil war in Montaria? Before I could ask her this, the interview was cut off and Eva Villa had to go to a meeting.
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Montarian Embassy in Carpathia Closed
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By Pedro Armesto
Acting prime minister Eva Villa de Santiago, who is running for office as successor of Comandanta Eillen, has announced today that she has closed the Montarian embassy in Carpathia and that all Montarian diplomatic personnel has been withdrawn from Carpathia within 48 hours. The Montarian embassy was closed for two reasons, out of protest and out of security reasons.

''The Carpathian government has been systematically showing its cynical lack of respect for the most basic rules of international politics'', complained the prime minister, referring to the Carpathian mass invasion of a country in the name of socialism, its announcement to use nuclear weapons of mass destruction and now its use of its military against a foreign embassy.

''This is the limit!'' she exclaimed. ''The Carpathian government is systematically using violence beyond all reason against countries they happen to have disagreements with. Carpathia has become a dangerous and very temperamental state. Montaria has so far remained silent, because we believe in the good intentions of our TA ally. But the military encirclement of a foreign embassy is a violation of the most fundamental code on which all international relations is founded. With this move, they have taken away the immunity of diplomats and their embassies - thus making diplomacy impossible for diplomats can only do their job if they can do it without risking their own safety. By this move, the Carpathian government has set a very dangerous precedent. If you shoot or even threaten to shoot the messenger, the messenger can no longer do his work - thereby diplomacy can no longer happen.''

The move of the Montarian government is both a protest and security measure. ''We seek to make a statement here that we do not allow the intimidation of diplomats - no matter what country they represent. We do not shoot at the messenger. Even during wartime, this would be unacceptable since you eliminate every possibility to negotiate a peace or surrender with your enemies if you threaten, kidnap, imprison or kill their diplomats. We think it is a matter of international justice to make a protest against the Carpathian move. And frankly, we are also afraid that our differences with the Carpathian government may lead to them attacking our embassy or personnel as well. We have therefore withdrawn them, for their own security. It is truly a shame.''

The Montarian embassy has not been closed permanently, but no date has been scheduled as to when it will re-open again. The Montarian foreign affairs ministry has issued a warning to Montarians in Carpathia to be careful and to avoid being in Carpathia unless absolutely necessary. The Montarian government calls upon the other TA countries to do the same.
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