DISSENSION IN THE PARTIDO DE LA REVOLUCION GUATEMALTECA (PRG)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Guatemala
SUBJECT Dissension in the Partido de la
Revolucion Guatemalteca (PRG)
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defence of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title :18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
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DATE DISTR. 5 tovember 1953
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DATE OF INFO. EQUIREMENT NO. RD
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1. In discussing the dissension created in the Partido dot la Revolucion Guatemalteca
(PRG), following the decision of the Political Commission of that party to with-
draw representation by the PRG Deputies from the Frente Democratico and to handle
party representation to that body itself, Alfonso SOLORZANO, Communist manager
of the Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social (IGSS) made the following
statement: The entire problem is based on the centralist political position of
Carlos GARCIA Bauer, Abundio MALDONADO, and other Congressional Deputies in the
party. Their position is in marked contrast to the attitude of Augusto CHARNAUD
MacDonald, secretary-general of the PRG, who is nyw following basically the political
lines indicated by him, (SOLORZANO), Abel CUENCA, Roberto ALVARADO Fuentes,
and other members of the PRG who belong to the leftist faction of the party.
2. SOLOEZANO said that the Deputies now in disagreement will probably ultimately
respect the orders of the party, but, if they should not, the PRG will not yield,
since it feels that some of its Deputies are betraying the party line.3
3. Questioned as to whether the Deputies in disagreement were having an influence
on the obvious rapprochement now existing between the PRG and the Partido
Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT Guatemalan Communist Pa:rty), SOLORZANO replied in the
affirmative, stating that it is basically a question of the centralist position which
those Deputies are maintaining and which they wish to carry to the h~ghest councils
of the party and to the Frente Democratico. It is this position, SOLORZANO declared,
which he and his followers have pr rsuaded CHARNAUD to discard, having first
eliminated the influence of those persons surrounding CHARNAUD who came from the
Partido Socialists, which he founded immediately following his separation from the
Partido Accion Revolucionaria (PAR).
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T. A el CUENCA is a well-known Salvadoran Communist who is a member of the Political
Commission of the PRG.
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2. Roberto ALVARADO Fuentes, a pro-Communist was recently named Guatemalan
Ambaessdor to Mexico. Until his diplomatic appointment he was co-
secretary-general of ;the PEG with CHARNAUD MacDonald.
3. On 14 October 1953 the following PEG Deputies to the Guatemalan National
Congress announced their "irrevocable" withdrawal from the PRG: Carlos GARCIA
Bauer,,.Emilio ZEA Gonzalez, Abundio MALDONADO, Amor VELASCO, Alfonso ESTRADA
Ricci, and Ernesto FLORES Giron.
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