FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO THE HAVANA ECLA CONFERENCE

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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fight on the subject of the conference as such, in integrated into
the major themef "Yankee
imperialism" and its scheme to Iiw Latin America under its heel.
A br oadbast by commentator Sergeeva, who jointly at lacks the, MA conference in Havana and the
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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BF OADCASTS
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Y. ObU'mox: Caomment frown monitored European pourcee on ECLA conference at Ravana
which began on 2 May and ended on 11 Jime, is non-e ent,1hile Latin American media offer
only a few advan a references of, limited local interest, mostly announcing that lhie or that
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officia
tact beep appointed to, or has departed for, the conference.
develont of okward territories nine solely at In?laving the colonial countries and
enawrizi the he+gemotp of the American monopolies." (in French, 14 June 1949)
Later, the2e is a TASS report--repeated by an ana ymo i ooolaeentator over Moscow's "Latin
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American Listening Poet"-that the ECLA conference' closed down without hating acecaspliahed an,
practical men es towards alleviating the increasing econoiic diffioul.tiee in the majority of
the Latin Amer; an ootntriee.'' (?ASS, in English Mcrae to Europe, 16 June; Mo?oaw Overseas
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that "the U.S. plan for the
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TT. a. QS: On the ' e: 'face, says commentator Sergeeva, t
Cana conference had' the "hljbly respectable" task of tsplememting the Truman plan for aldlmg~
ckward areas, but in realism', the ads of the American-plta is to ?provide the American
lies with Buitable condittoas for penetrating colcaial a9wtrios." And speaking in the
',breath of 310'a Montevideo conference, she adds that this conference "wee held offie3a 27
the purpose of examdainig the problem of the industrialisation of South America, but
at to transform ILO into an instrument for the eooncsda e=paaeicm of the United States
uth America."
"One may ask "t new the United States has of Internatiional bodies such ar the
U.N. and ILO to penetrate into South America, where. they are already at home, as it
were. The explanation is that the enormous appetites of the monopolies enoountsr
considerable difficulties' in these countries: American capital stifles the mRtional
Industries; American nomopolies get hold of raw materials, exploit the people, and
beuaper the industrialds?loynint of the countries of South America. In these alrcuaetaaoee, apposition to B.S. isperialiem repretseats a re danger, and per-
fidious plane must be made to chain the backward countries." (in French, 14 Jae
1949)
he above-mentiowd 20 J ne broadcast (in Spanish to Latin America) seems to combine the TAMS
Jun ,
tatemont o off 16 6 J'ime that the conference adjourned without nay practical results with large
egments of the Sergeon ca meentary quoted above. "In appearance," it -nays, "the plan discussed
n Ban= in praisewortby.'...'But in reality, its trueipurposa in very different, an has been
evealed not by !CLAbut, by the press controlled by thelAnerioan monopolies." i'.
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