ROBERTO MORENA'S ACTIVITIES IN GUAYAQUIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004000360003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 4, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,. Roberto Morena, Brazilian Communist leader and CTAL official? was in Guaya-
quil, Ecuador, from 28 to 29 November 1949 during which time he conferred with
top leaders of the Partido Corsunista del Ecuador (PC ),
2? One of the principal purposes of Morenavavisit was to study the background of
the apparent potential disintegration and recent loss of prestige of the PCE
which resulted from ineffective Party leadership and the Saad renas sohismz
following the municipal elections of 6 November. He reprimanded the Ecuadoran
Communists and stated that it was absurd that the iICE should be losing ground
in a country which favors the Party with constitutional recognition While
the social, econo.mict, and geographical conditions lend themselves very well
to the spread of Communism.
3o Morena is expected to send a complete report on his findings to Mexico where
It d.ll be assessed and forwarded with recommendations to Moscow. Until.
further instructions are received from international headquarters, Pedro
Sand, who is actually the number two man according to Party hierarchy, will
act as nominal head of the Party, according to b".orena'r orders. As a temporary
measure, Morena ordered that the Alianza Popular, the Communist political
machine of Guayaquil, be under the leadership of Alfredo Vera and Carlos
Foraud Blum. Morena strongly condemned Manuel Arenas Coello, former Presi-
dent of the Alianza, for selling out to the opposition after the ma--oralty
eleotions in Guayaquil. Y
4. Among the persons with whom Morena conferred were the following;
Pedro Saad Franklin Perez Castro
Ana Moreno Carlos Feraud Blum
Elias Munoz Dr. Alfonso Gui jano
Enrique Gil Gilbert
- 5- Morena informed the Ecuadorans that the Communist Parties in Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, and Chile must lend its support to govermmnts, factions, or
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that further and more specific orders will be forthcoxing in th~~' ar future;,
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Eb Pedro sad composed a series of five memoranda on the ordei?s r ceived. during
the official and informal disco ssions held with Morena? Attached to this
report is a direct tmislation 5f' the first memos idzza.,
r''a. Morena offered Ana :?oren.o a trip to Czechoslovakia, but she declined tenporarily
on the roirids that it would be difficult to leave her sr . I child at thf s time.
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