Do Americans know the history of the ultra-violent illegal alien gangs from volatile Central and South American nations afflicting this nation’s communities today? They are the result of a leftist revolutionary effort to undermine from within what had been the leading anti-communist bastion in the Western Hemisphere. A primer on MS-13 reveals the unconscionable degree to which some Democrats, in the name of woke social ideology, have joined hands with militantly hostile forces actively seeking to destroy the United States.
The Venezuelan terror gang making headlines for its alarming activities inside the United States today has been brought here with the determined assistance of the tyrannical socialist government that rules that poverty-stricken nation. “The FBI assesses that some Venezuelan government officials ‘likely facilitate’ the migration of members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua from Venezuela to the United States to advance the Maduro regime’s objective of undermining public safety in the US,” Fox News reported on April 23.
‘Socialism or Death’
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was the handpicked political heir of Hugo Chavez, the leftist strongman who considered himself an anti-imperialist revolutionary. Chavez ruled Venezuela from 1999 until he died in 2013. He promulgated a “socialism or death” mantra in the classic style of Marxist authoritarian rulers and explicitly stressed the need for that revolution to come to the United States.
“Nicolas Maduro is a Marxist dictator who hijacked a once-prosperous Venezuela and brought in nothing but total economic collapse and gang takeover,” a senior Trump administration official told Fox News. “He crumbled Caracas, now overrun with drugs and violence, and wants to do the same across the United States by sending his most violent and dangerous criminals into our communities.”
MS-13 Comes to America
Before Tren de Aragua, there was MS-13, the equally vicious gang of criminals that was imported into the United States from civil war-scarred El Salvador. That the country had experienced a hot war made matters far worse, for this meant the military-aged men crossing over the border were experienced soldiers. They were communist guerrillas shipped into the United States en masse.
Media-hyped sob stories of “unaccompanied minors” and a massive NGO-constructed infrastructure to move illegal aliens into the United States were all exploited to funnel MS-13 members into the American heartland.
“The Congressional Research Service reported as far back as 2009 that MS-13 was connected to unaccompanied alien children (UAC) arriving in the United States,” Just the News reported on April 14. “The report also raised concerns that MS-13 is exploiting the US Southwest border by bringing young gang members from Central America to the United States and recruits some of the vulnerable UAC to join the gang’s ranks once in the United States.”
There is no MS-13 without the communist movement to conquer El Salvador.
“The FMLN was founded in Havana in 1980 by [Cuban dictator Fidel] Castro to unite five Marxist factions that were fighting each other,” J. Michael Waller, a Latin America expert with the Center for Security Policy, told author Kenneth Timmerman, writing for Newsmax in 2009. “The FMLN has been fighting a war for 30 years to take over the country, and they have finally won – through elections.” This is the tyrannical Marxist regime that the current populist El Salvador President Nayib Bukele freed his people from in 2019.
Waller continued, “MS-13 began when demobilized FMLN guerrillas moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s. MS-13 provided the muscle for the FMLN election campaign [in El Salvador in 2009].”
The crucial point to understand is that the scourge of El Salvadoran and Venezuelan gangs inside the United States is rooted in the militant communist branch of the transformative leftist social ideology with which some Democrats sympathize. In their eagerness to show their support for the “rights” of illegal aliens to migrate to America, many Democrats have allowed themselves to become the dupes (or is it something worse?) of committed communist revolutionaries.
‘United States: A Possible Revolution’
As Liberty Nation News reported on April 19, illegal alien rights activist group Casa de Maryland, today known as CASA, has played the leading role in promoting the “Maryland Man” hoax that has spurred numerous Democrats to rally around suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to his native El Salvador by the Trump administration.
Since its earliest days, Casa de Maryland was riddled with ex-FMLN and other Marxist personnel.
Lindolfo Carballo, who currently serves as “Senior Director of Community Economic Development Department” for CASA, is an El Salvador native who has publicly declared that he once waged war against US military forces. That marks him as a former FMLN communist guerrilla.
“Gustavo Torres, who left his native Colombia in the 1980s to support the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, has served as CASA’s executive director since 1993,” watchdog website Discover the Networks details.
For decades, Torres has held shockingly undue political influence among Maryland Democrats. “[W]hen Gustavo Torres calls, I generally get in my car and go over and ask him what he wants,” Peter Franchot bluntly admitted in 2011 when serving as Maryland’s Comptroller. “Gustavo has created a sanctuary state,” Pat McDonough, then a Republican state delegate, told a prominent DC news outlet at that time. “The governor does his bidding.”
In 2007, the Chavez regime in Venezuela hosted an affair dedicated to promoting a world revolution. One item in particular stood out. “A five-day rolling panel discussion on ‘United States: A possible revolution’ was the central event at the third Venezuela International Book Fair, which took place here November 9-18,” radical website The Militant reported in 2007. One of the prominent guests at that gathering was CASA head Gustavo Torres.
“Both Torres and Antonio Gonzalez, [former] president of the Southwest Voter Education and Registration Project, said the road to ‘empowerment’ is organizing Latinos to vote,” The Militant wrote. “‘What does a revolutionary do in the US today?’ asked Gonzalez. ‘Take power wherever you can’ by electing Latinos to city, state, and federal offices.”
Torres’ revolutionary jargon even extended as far as the White House. In 2014, President Barack Obama considered nominating his Labor Secretary and ex-Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas E. Perez to be his next Attorney General. The Maryland-based Perez, son of Dominican Republic immigrants, had served as a board member for CASA from 1995 to 2002.
“He’s a visionary leader,” Torres gushed of the Perez bid for AG. “In every place he goes, he makes a revolution.”
Perez never became the attorney general, but his meteoric rise in Democratic politics continued. He was elected Democratic National Committee Chair in 2017, holding that powerful post until 2021. He went on to serve as a senior adviser to the president in the Biden administration.
All the circles intersect. Hugo Chavez was a heavy funder of Casa de Maryland via his state-run Citgo Petroleum Corp. In 2008, Citgo gave CASA a cool $1.5 million. This came at the same time he was hosting symposiums on social revolution in the United States, attended by CASA leader Gustavo Torres.
Runaway Venezuelan and El Salvadoran gang violence in America didn’t just happen by chance. It was a key facet of a carefully planned Marxist revolutionary plot, one that some leading Democrats in Maryland and national politics, wittingly or not, helped advance every step of the way.
