PRO-CUBAN CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN RIO DE JANEIRO IN MARCH

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Pro-Cuban Continental Congress To Be Held
in Rio de Janeiro in March
Available Brazilian papers up to 6 March 1963 had not carried
the "Leite" and t"Juliaott list of sponsors of the Continental Congress
of Solidarity with Cuba as reported in The Washington Post on
11 March 1963. However, Rio de Janeiro Correio da Manha of 3 March 1963
said that the Brazilian National Security Council and the Secret Services
of the Armed Forces were carefully studying the four documents taken
from Communist leader Carlos Prestes as he left for Havana via Prague.
Despite their secret nature, Correio da Manha declared, its reporter
had exami
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n
d th
e documents
.
FDD has followed the build-up for this congress since the time
Peasant League leader Francisco Juliao read a manifesto calling for
the meeting, which was reported in the pro-Communist Rio paper
0 Semanario in late September 1962.
Information on the congress and its sponsors has appeared in
the following FDD reports:
FDD
Press Information Relating
Date of
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Summary No
to Insurgency and Counter-
FDD
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insurgency: South America
Report
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No
3953
08
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16 Oct 62
28
4
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4161
11
29 Nov 62
27
18
17
21 Dec 62
26
4
9
08
19
3 Jan 63
22-23
43
29
7 Feb 63
6-7
4400
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35
5 Mar 63
12
44
9
36
7 Mar 63
18-20
4425
37
12 Mar 63
8
4437
38
14 Mar 63
5-7
Report No 39, now in production, will contain further information.
On 6 March 1963 the Sao Paulo morning edition of Ultima Hora
mentioned that Dante Pellacani, Humberto Menezes, Osvaldo Pacheco and
Vinicius de Morais had signed the manifesto which convoked the congress.
The Havana Revolucion published an interview on 2 March 1963 with
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Carlos Prestes during which he gave the following list of persons
expected to attend the congress: Gen Lazaro Cardenas; Lombardo
Toledano; Salvador Allende; Argentine writer Varela; John Bernal,
president of the World Peace Movement; Pernambuco Governor Miguel
Arraes; Goias Governor Mauro Borges; Brazilian Labor Minister Almino
Afonso; Sergio Magalhaes, head of the National Parliamentary Front;
Senator Vasconcelos Torres, and several army generals including
Luis Gonzaga Leite, president of the preparations committee for
the congress.
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Venezuelan Comanunist Par y Document on
Continued Guerrilla Warfare
The 1JashingtonStar of 10 March 1963 reported that the
Venezuelan Government had published a document, which it
called the Communists' blueprint for seizing power in
Venezuela.
Venezuelan newspapers through 3 March 1963, the only ones
available to FDD at this time, indicate that such a document
was released to the public by Act,ng 1 nister of the Interior
Alejandro Oropeza Castillo on 25 ebruary 1963, according to a
report in the Caracas daily El iNacional of that date.
This document, and a related article, were published in FDD
Summary No 4425, Press Information ating to Insurgency and
Counterinsurgents: South America , dated 12 Parch 1963,
pp 21-24.
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