LATIN AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-469-11-1-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: REPORT

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LATIN AMERICA
1. NOVEMBER 1973 TALKS
Chinese Position in November 1973
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-- Although Soviet ambition is great, their capacities are meager.
Take for instance Cuba. The US intimidated them and they left.
(Mao)
-- China is very suspicious of this country [Cuba] that wants to have
some relations with us. Delegations sent by Castro tried to make
peace with us on behalf of the Soviet Union. They tried to persuade
us not to continue the struggle in the ideological field. (Mao)
-- China signed the Latin American Nuclear Free Zone treaty in order
to satisfy the demands of countries like Mexico, but made a separate
statement. The US signed it, but hasn't withdrawn its military bases
from Cuba. China hopes the Soviet Union will sign it.
-- Che Guevara told Chou he didn't want to stay on in Cuba. So he went
to Bolivia. It was very difficult for him there. He asked for Chinese
help to build the biggest broadcasting station. Was he mad to think of
having such a large broadcasting station to go along with such a small
guerrilla force?
-- The coup in Chile was terrible slaughter. Could the US influence it?
-- The Allende Government itself was much too complicated. Allende
himself admitted it, but his subordinates made great publicity. The
pro-Moscow Communists there wanted the Soviet Union to supply them
with weapons. And the Che Guevarists, divorced from the masses,
tried activities quite similar to their Cuban guerrilla forces. A
putschist group, they thought if they had weapons in hand, they could
kill some people and burn down some houses.
-- The Soviet Union was making use of Che Guevara, and also making use
of Trotskyites. In Chile you can find both Guevarists and Trotskyites.
-- Massacres in Chile will give rise to revolution on the part of the people.
It is also inevitable that it will be so, though no one knows how long it
[the regime] will last. It has also enabled the Soviet Union to gain
publicity about it -- as when Gromyko demanded that they not execute
a trade union official.
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(Chinese Position in November 1973)
-- Chou wrote to Allende asking him not to do too many things in a hurry,
and to make preparations for nationalization, and he didn't. So as a
result, their production went down and they made too many promises
to the people which could not be honored.
-- China gives only limited support to Latin American revolutions. China
is still learning. The US needn't fear. It takes time to have the people
rise up. Latin America is a complicated area and is very different
from Asia.
US Position in November 1973
-- We drove the Soviets out of Cuba a second time, though we didn't
announce it. They moved several submarines; we moved several ships,
and they left. (to Mao)
-- The US has exercised considerable influence to prevent slaughter in
Chile. We believe executions have stopped, but we will look into it
again and let China know. We will use our influence in that direction.
-- We wish the CIA were as competent as the Premier believes. The CIA
did not have.a hand in the coup in Chile, and it could not control the
situation. It was the incompetence of the Allende Government. We
would not give assistance, would not make their task easier, but we
did not have anything to do with the actual coup.
-- Che Guevara was an adventurist; Chairman Mao is a student of the
Rerolution. Che had no objective or political hope in either place,
either the Congo or Bolivia.
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