MEXICO FEELS 'BACKLASH' ON CASTRO ISSUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200600001-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 16, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SEP 1 6 1964
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By VIRGINIA PREWETT.
Mexicans identified with theiri
countrY's holdoUt Policy against}
the New World's anti-C as tr 01
I. sanctions are lieginning to reap'
. the consequences.
, Mexico's Ambassador to the L
.,,.,
strong drive to take a whopping
'Organization' ?of A m e r i c a n .t',- bite Out . of the foreign -cane-1 '?,
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!?. States, the? personable and do.' growers U. S. market was beat.i. -
? quent,. if -resoutely pro-Castro, en.lyvek ;in Congress this yeat:.
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. . ? . But ? it will surge up 'again In .1
Mexican sugar exporters have
been jolted to learn that strong
sentiment in the U. S. Congress
favors substantially reducing
Mexico's U. S. sugar quota be-
cause' Mexico? is defying the
OAS sanctions against Castro.
The U. S. beet sugar, industry's
Dr. Francisco Sanchez GavitO
may catch the blame for MOCI.
next yco_r_'S Congress ? and
.;
if.
? any foreign country loses lin- '
co's mounting embarrassment.
'..Insiders in Mexico 'City now say ports, it will be Mexico.
Mexico yent out on the pro.
Meanwhile, anti-Castro Cubans-
Cuban'limb because 'Dr. San-
?
. are going for the jugular vein-
. t! of Mexico's tourist trade and
chez Gavito assured President
Adolfo Lopez Mateos the pro.'
1,? Castro causes had much strong-
.,
er Latin American backing than'
It proved to have.
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CANDIDATE?
1:;. But President Lopez Mateos,'
who leaves office. on Nov. 1,
? . may feel .a "backlash," too. The
reporf,has circulated widely thru, ,
the U.: S. and 'Latin American
press that he nailed down
week the committee intends to
Mexico's. -position defying the
start picketing the Mexican tour-
i.st office. and the Mexican Air-
, ways in Washington.
overseas film distribution.
PICKETING
Exiles in' New York and San
Juan, Puerto Rico, are picket-
ing Mexico's tourist bureaus. On
Labor Day, the Cuba Workers'
Committee distributed one hun-
dred thousand 'handbills at the
New York World's Fair that
said: "DO NOT visit Mexi-
co, the country which supports ?
the Hyena, Fidel Castro." Next
? i hemisphere mandate to ?break
! relations With Castro because lie
wants communist bloc influence
? to help him become the next
Secretary General of the United
Nations,' This report has aroused
opposition among' the all-impor-
? tant Latin_ American caucus at
. the UN to his potential
dacy for the office.
i" Nor are Mexicans who are
`.pro-Castro for pocketbook mo-
fives entirely happy. Sugar ex-
porters to the U. S., the ailing
; but still important Mexican film
industry and even Mexic o's
Y. thriving tourist industry are 'all'
? feeling a chill brought on by. the
.;; pro-Castr? policy? . ???
: .
?
Their picketing of Miami's
two Spanish-language movie
houses has been 100 per ,cent
successful no more Mexican
films are being show there.
Next 'week they will start pick-
eting nine Spanish-I anduage^
movies-in New York and one in
Union City, N. J. They expect
'to spread the movement over
the U. S. ? ?
The Cuban Workers' Commit...1
? .
tee in New York has a fat file.
of clippings from newspapers all,:
over the hemisphere editorially'.
applauding their move to boy.i
cott Mexican films and tourist
. travel., ?
A' ...Li, ?
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