POLITICAL ACTIVITIES - CUBA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02061649
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2023
• Case Number: F-2021-02240
• Publication Date: December 18, 1950

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CENTRALCINTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
RINFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY Cuba �
SUBJECT Political Activities - Cuba
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The Partido Accion'Revolucionario (PAR) has set up a complete organiza-
tion, headed by its Rational Committee., and with provincial and local
committees all over the island. In Habana as well as in other important
cities, the committees are organized down to the "barrio" (ward) level.
In spite of the excellent organizational work that has been accomplished,
it is not expected that the PAR will be successful in obtaining sufficient
popular support to establish itself as a legal political party.
Dr. Miguel Suarez Fernandez is continuing to back the PAR, but this
backing is now mostly moral and no longer financial. Fernandez continues
to hope that the PAR and other revolutionary groups will give him their
support as a presidential candidate.
Due to his resignation of some weeks ago as president of the Senate,
Suarez Fernandez has lost an income of approximately t20,000 a month.
He has, therefore, withdrawn his support of the PAR daily newspaper,
ha_yea, whose editor is Jesus Gonzalez Cartes. It is expected that
La Voz will cease publication soon.
Within the PAR/ARG (PAR/Accion Revolucionaria Gulteras)0 there now exist.
three distinct groups with the chiefs of each group in considerable
discord among themselves. These three chiefs are Eufemio Fernandez y
Ortega, Jesus Gonzalez Cartes, and Marco Antonio Hirigoyen. Gonzalez
Cartes continues to follow a very personal and opportunistic policy. He
is afraid of losing his prestige within the new party to Eufemio Fernandez
and Marco Hirigoyen. As the president in name, Eufemio Fernandez wishes
to act as president, but he has no real authority. Hirigoyen is trying
to promote himself to become Secretary. General of the Confederacion de
Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) at the VII National Congress in April 1951.
He continues to enjoy the support of most of the militants of the PAR/ARG�
and is trying, with little success, to bring anti-communist syndicates
into the PAR/ARG fold,
The only recent development in any way favorable to the PAR/AEG has been
a campaign carried on. in the province of Las Villas by Conrad� Rodriguez,
a sugar leader of considerable prestige, and a fanatic militant of ARG.
Rodriguez is Secretary General of the Federacion Regional Azucarera de
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Segue La Grande (Las Villas) which belongs to the Federacion Nacional
de Trabajadores Azucareros (FNTA). He has organized almost all of the
PAR local and ward committees In the province of Las Villas and is the
true chief of the PAR in that province.
The murder of Narciso Rodriguez (known as ,Thichd) on a street corner
in Habana on 14 October 1950 is commonly believed to have been committed
by members of the ARG who, according to newspaper reports, were arrested
after they had left the house of Marco Hirigoyen. The men accused of
the killing are being held in jail pending trial. "Chichoo Rodriguez
.was a member of the AUtOtiOOr Party, active in labor matters, who at one
time had worked closely with Eusebio Mujal. However, for several months
prior to the killing, Rodriguez and Mujal had seen little of one another
although remaining on friendly terms. It is said in many quarters that
Mujal,s recent efforts to obtain the support of Hirigoyen and the ARG
are meeting with some SUCC0000
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