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ee ee ee ee - +, ‘DRARE “AGE RAL. ANSUERS LBdo ott Pesta ten Veet tam ‘Tide | I sent "the following to 10 mfbcate boards” . .. S:lective Service . i fi Local Board No. 62 © - i 1654 The Alameda ‘ San Jose, Califorata Gemlemen - - My last letter to you was writ- ten on the eve (June 9, 1964) of | my departure for Cuba. Before ‘ . thar time, as well zs after, } signed public declarations of my This sometesrhtory has spawned Barry Goléwa:er and Lyndoa q Johnson, who are representitives + of the white porulativn that squatted .on the land and usurped it acre by acre, with the full support : eheir government, In addition to the land, the na- * sive population of Mexicans and . Indians passed inte Yankee hands. Saved from actual slavery by one , of the provisions of the Treaty of , Guadalupe Hidalgo, these “‘na- ives’’ nonetheless became facile victims of the American Way of Life. 4 refusal to fight in Vietnam and" The Mexicans, or rather the the Dominican Republic, If the “*Mexican-Americans™. were new FBI, which has kept up a constant,” vite affairs, has not informed you ' of, my political sentiments, then* let this letter — once and for all —clarify my position, Ir should be enough to say that’ I afm of Mexican descent. Assuming | however, that you are as ignorant ' of the plight of my people as most! gringos, here Is a Little American history. On july 26, 1964 Fidel Castro- spoke at Santiago de Cuba. It was my rare privilege and honor to witness that address, in which he said: . “Mexico is the country robbed! | lega! exploitation, Utilizing these peons as 4 per- fect source of cheap **stcop labor,” the Yankee farmers became agri- cultural industrialists and Insd- ruted the monoplics that exist to- day throughout the Southwest. The Mexican was thus left tohls own fate, without a government, without representation, without hope. SQUALOR, POVERTY, STARVATION, AGYSMAL Il LITERACY, DISCRIMINATION, & _MIGRANT LABOR are his wages ‘in America, The Mexican in the United States of half of its territory by telly ee ee ry Urited States: Mexico is the , coun! rt that bas suffered in its flesh’ Gas been, and continues to be, n nS less a victim of American im- perialism than his impoverished and in its blood from the claws of [brothers _ in Latin America, 2. 7 imperialism." . Between 1838 and 1853, to be more exact, the North Americans stole 949,808 square miles of unimaginably rich in agricu i of] and mineral resources; ar gavr the Mexican governmen| whi 3h bad no choice in ihe mate rer, a mere 25 million dollars. ° . , . oo | by the states of Texas, Nevada,‘ This territory is now occupied Utah, California, New= Mexico, | Arizona and Colorado, e T ‘ ' ' eta teens “ gitizens of the United States and - criminal survelliance on my pri~ thus immediately accessible for - ee oe oa ee eee eT