The Mexico-North Korea Connection

The Mexico-North Korea Connection

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”

Kim Il-sung

By: Erreh Svaia

It was my father who first told me about an international operation undercover happening in Mexico in the 70s, yes, it started as an student movement protesting against an authoritarian state imposed by the PRI (Mexico´s favorite villain) who was using violent repression against them, but it was quickly infiltrated and as I started to read and learn all about it, I ended up with information that resulted amazing and that brought me a whole new dimension to the theme, in the end, it was about violent revolution, it was about communism and although it was not 100% backed by the USSR, nor China, another communist nation was behind it, but not exactly the one I expected.

The Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow was an "ideal” school (current russian dissident Alexei Navalny studied there) conceived to offer free education for the development of students in third world countries, officially it was not about indoctrination, but in an underground way it was a place for world conspirators to meet and to look for economical backing thru the embassies in Moscow, it was a place to export communism, red revolution and Marxism Leninism to another parts of the world, especially third world countries like Mexico at the time.

In the end of the 60s, a bunch of Mexican students of the University decided to look for economic support and guerrilla training inspired by Fidel Castro's communist revolution in Cuba, the idea was to create a small group of trained men that could get into Mexico´s urban and rural spaces and start training a small army in order to overthrow the government, the students found no backing from the USSR, Cuba, China or Argelia, the only country willing to proportionate training and economic support was North Korea, ruled by the Kim dynasty founder Kim Il Sung, a communist government backed by the USSR, and who was eager to install a satellite communist nation closer to the U.S. than Cuba.

It would be fare not to call North Korea a full communist country, as other authoritarian states it deviated into something else, in the USSR, it was called "Stalinism", in China and Albany, it was called "Maoism", in NK it was simply called "Juche", the country's version of communism lead by a familiar dynasty, much like it is happening now in Cuba, as a matter of fact, like in other authoritarian state, even the people (intellectuals) that developed the Juche ideology left the country when they noticed that their ideology was just a cover up for an iron fist dictatorship.

NK's trained Mexican guerrilla as we all know simply didn't work, it was good because in a way we didn't ended like NK or Cuba, they were violently repelled and repressed, killed or jailed by  Mexican secret police in the so called “Guerra Sucia” or Dirty War, installing a communist nation next to the U.S. was simply an impossible task, before something like that could occur, it was obvious that the U.S. wouldn't let that happen and the situation could have turned into a potential Chilean like Coup D Etat, it was bad because it leave deep scars in the country as the protest were bloodily repressed in a real embarrassing chapter.

In the end, there are things that unite our country historically in an obscure way, it’s almost absurd given how things are now in NK, an isolated country punished either with terrible famines, gulags like concentration camps and denounces of human right violations.

The Kim dynasty continue ruling this almost surreal place, living a tense relation with its half-brother-neighbor republic South Korea, these days, tensions within the two are starting to rise, while in Mexico in truly absurdist fashion, leaders like Andres Manuel Lopez look for a left wing dynasty like rule thru his MORENA party, people like Alberto Anaya, leader of the now defunct Partido del Trabajo praised the Kim dynasty for its exemplar rule of the nation, and people like Ramón Jiménez López, ex member of the PRD, Mexico´s biggest left wing party, and now a member of MORENA, Mexico´s, radical left wing party leads the so called Mexican Committee of Kimulisunianos Studies, an organization that studies and praises “Juche”, yes baby, it’s a wild and crazy world, in the meantime, if this guys, closet Marxists Leninist love NK regime so much, they should have departed toward the “hermit kingdom” a long time ago.