Texas Ranger H. Joaquin Jackson on Murder and Mayhem in the West Texas - Mexican Border:

late 1980s ...

"[S]ome part of all this mayhem gets carried out under the flag of some bogus popular - resistance movement ..."

Snippet from One Ranger Returns, by H. Joaquin Jackson, page 166.

"Inevitably, some part of this mayhem gets carried out under the flag of of some popular resistance movement.

"In western Chihuahua there is an organization, the Comité de Defensa Popular (Popular Defense Committee),that goes under the acronym CDP, whose member pose as resistance fighters to give some justification for the presence of Cuban and Salvadoran advisers.*

"They are generous to local peasants, who are in turn loyal to them, but the bulk of their financing comes from drug smuggling.

"At one time there was an isolated camp of them in a bowl - shaped canyon about twenty - fives south of Lajitias and about two miles distant from a two - acre field of marijuana...."

*One San Antonio paper even mentioned the presence of East German "advisers," too! :)