HAVE WE FAILED LATIN AMERICA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090064-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: October 22, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By FULTON LEWIS, JR,
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WA-S1-31N?Clif0'.1\T, 0 c t . 2 1 ?.
Such information as this seldom
sifts up through t h e bureauc- ;
..racy of. Mr. Allen Dulles! CIA
(Central Intellisli2ce Agency) to':
any policy making?levels where.
it would be -useful, but there
were ominous rumblings-.among
Latin American bigwigs ata re-
cent ten-day. get-together down
Caribbean Way.
.The occasion was the 450th
anniversary .of the accession of
nthmn
),,taxmtrA
? te.
*1'' ? .bs.
?ANASTASIO SOMOZA
while death-.
VT'
the idolized Charles V as Ring
' of Spain and Holy Roman Em-
peror, coupled with the 475th
anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columbus, all of
, which Adds up to a tremendous
spectacular in Latin Arnerican,
.standards.
? The place was Ciudad Trujillo,-
in the Dominican Republic, and
the top intellectual and religious
leaders of Central and South
America hob-nobbed with-plenty
of leisure..
The key topic was United
States policy regarding the
philosophic complexion of Latin
American governments, and no ?
answer was ever arrived at. ?
Alke.24.
? JOSE REMON
wes waiting, ?
State Department lip service
to the established Latin Ameri-
can governments to the con-
trary, United States perform-
ance, it seems, is taking quite
,the opposite tack.
? In Puerto Rico, for example,
we are permitting the opera-
tions of the prime anathema to ?
all current southerly neighbors,
-Romulo Betancourt, f ormer .
Venezuelan dictator, who is ban- ?
neatr651 virtually every country
south of the border,
. ? ?
?'? THE PUERTO RICAN gov-
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ernment accords him free range;
and the information -at 'Ciudad
Triijillo' was that he. olaerates, ?.
priVate radio transmitter, by
.? which he- keeps in constant;
. :touch with incendiary Operatives
? in. Cuba, Haiti, and a dozen'
other republics on the Central. :
and South American continents.'
. The stories' have it that ?Betari?
?I
court. even sport st''an
? official-
governmental license ..plate'- oni
his private-automobile. ? .
True, Puerto .RicoAs. a self-I
governing- coliimonwen ti an d! -
Washington does :not, run the.? .??
show, but this: is not an ade-i
quate an to the friendly. ?
governments in whose hair .hel
is a- constant cockle-burr. ?
Meanwhile, even more import-] ?
ant, some of, the . do - gooderi ?
American foundations are con-;
ducting an .increasing series -.of, ?
projects.
?? *. t - ?
? /T IS REPORTED that o n
Foundation either, has made a
large grant or will do so in the.
near future, for .a. "study proj-
ect" in -Puerto Rico, the political' ?.
-.and material benefits of whichl
\ will accrueln large measure to
? could get away with almost any-
thing.
?
. ,
All this time,. the promoters
and financiers of the anti-Batista
movement in Cuba are beingi
permitted to. enjoy complet
sanctuary in southern Floridan
and are even floating Cuban'
-revolution bond issues, fOri?sale,1.
to anyone who will buy: .
? ..
'? Ea tista haS ?ins dictatorial-
- W4 W&
Betancourt. ?
- Puerto RicO is a remote areal
from the continental U,n i t e di
States, a n d everything consid-J
ered, a foundation - supported;
project with a high-flown name;
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SENORA An.3s1.asioSomoza' is 'comforted by Dona,. Cecilia ' -..,4
Remori. at :Pfesident...Somoza's funeral. . Both women were -
widowed 4 assassins' .bullets.' Latin-Americans ask. 'Who will
be next?".
.....facets, .to be sure. But. he sub- - Ing Carlos Castillo. ArmaS to
? . scribes to free elections when ? overthrow tliat government, the 7... ,
--.- while_ permitting . revolutionary? .
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' the political situation is stable instigators to operate on Amer- -LI
? enough to permit it, :and there I ? ican soil. . ? is. a. clear taint of Communism ' . Three, deeply loyal American "
f,. that attaches at least to one ele- -
friends, at the head of Latin -1 ?
ment among the opposition.. ? ?
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? .. . ..A American governments; have al-
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ready fallen under the bullets of ...`?
? the assassins spawned by these !.
i. THE 64j THOUSAND dollar elements: Castillo ' Armas of' . ?
' question at Ciudad Trujillo waS Guatemala, Anastasio 'Somoza, .
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why does the United States in- of Nicaragua, and Jose- Remon
I: dulge , in such official hand- of Panama. ?
,. wringing as it did !a b o u t the ? ?
. I Communist ?governMerit The q u es t i o n 'on Columbus
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I.. cobo Arbenz Guzman in Guate-.? ,Day was, "who's next?"
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