As if the goals of said movements would had been democracy and not communism, not having provoked tens of thousands of deaths, with a "cruel, bloody and irresponsible participation" in the civil wars of those countries, as coached to the dictator Castro former president of El Salvador, Francisco Flores, during the closure ceremony of the Iberic American Summit in Panama, in 2000, before the television cameras of the whole world.
En un recuento histórico sobre las luchas revolucionarias en el continente, García llegó a elogiar movimientos guerrilleros marxistas de América Central, diciendo que había que "sacarse el sombrero" ante los casos de Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua, países en los que actualmente existiría la democracia como "resultado de grandes luchas, inclusive armadas", en esos países.