CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A021800020002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 29, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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29 April 1972
State Department review completed
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MEXICO: President Echeverria expresses concern
over trends in Latin America. (Page 5)
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MEXICO: President Echeverria, viewing the po-
litical and social ferment in Latin America as a
serious threat to his own country, is urging a new
US commitment to economic development for the coun-
tries of the hemisphere.
As a start, Echeverria, in a conversation with
the US ambassador, asked that the US endorse the
principles he set forth in his recent. speech at the
UNCTAD meeting in Chile. While he regards his com-
pendium of economic rights and duties as only a pre-
liminary charter for the developing nations, he
feels that it, offers a possible rallying point.
Echeverria believes that some action must be taken
to reverse the present drift toward violent up-
heaval and that it is essential for the US to re-
main intimately involved with the affairs of the
hemisphere.
Echeverria clearly was confused and concerned
by what he saw in Chile and alarmed by everything
he heard and was told about conditions in other
countries, especially Argentina, during his trip
to Santiago. These: observations seem to sharpen
his concern over the weakening of Mexico's own po-
litical system and his new-found sense of urgency
about the population explosion in Mexico. Believ-
ing that problems at home and in neighboring coun-
tries can no longer be ignored, he is groping for
some method by which Mexico, working together with
the United States, can alleviate -them.
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