DESPITE FRACAS OVER TUNA BOATS LATIN-U.S. ACCORD STILL SEEN VIABLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000500120001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 24, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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? ONCE AGAIN this pas6 week have preci~pif~ated a Civil vrar, and
stirred a ? new wave of extreme
the' United ,States Geer Hcuaclor anti :~ntericanism in the Xemis-
have been at odds over seizure of phere. At worst, the effort would
American tuna boats in Ecuador's have failed, leaving Chile still in
~' 200-mile-wide "territ.orial waters." the hands of a Marxist but with a
But the fuss merely tended to poison tooth fir the Unit,ect States
?obscure a deeper and more signifi- ~ as Cuba's Fidel Castro was left,
cant fact: that relations. bc~tseen in the wake of ineffectual attempts
Uncle Sam and most of hatin ? to overthrow his regime.
America are less strained today
than they have been in a very long ~. II1 kOIR'T OIL fact, the United
tune. ;States swallovred its chagrin anct
Apart from Ecuador, it would be quietly worked out a modus viven-
?hard to 'find a really serious razz- di with the new Chilean leaders.
;rzino? quarrel in the ~Testez?n IIem- Wasizingt.on volunteered to }:eep
nds strictly -off Chile's domestic
h
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isph~re :-= ahvays e:~cepting, of
course, lire normal state of coif- business. making clear that Aineri- , izt Ghilo (though copper mines, p1 e-
trolled tension betv:een tiVashina- can concern v as focused, as i;, viously taY.en over in part, may
tozi and Ilavaria. ? . .-.--`_ had a legitimate right. to be, on now be completely z?ationalizecl un-
der? i+erms the coirpanies find
-T)tcre arc long-stanclinr griar?- Chilean foreign policy. >l~arsh, and certain other, srn:~.Iier
aztces, recently intensificcl, over ar-` This clecisio.t l;orron?ed nntclt
tificial barrios iv rite sale of I~atiu froze the exl,erieuce ~t?ith Castro. , enterprises ~ have been listed for
gods on the iTnitcd t~?keover). . ,
American ~ ~ TVhen Lire Kennedy Adiztinistration ' ? -
5tates marfict. Ancl there are hart tv identify the really critical. ALLIs'R~~ IL45 given no sign of
groups -inside ancl.ou*.sicie i,~.tin soure~s of tinit~d States anxiety being, in these respects;anyzvh2re ,
govern?meets =whose favorite Po- over Cnba,.it settled on tt?,?o: Cuba's near as extreme as Gastra. 'By t,.is
pitiCal sport will always be wallop aligni>ent ~viih the Soviet Union, lig'nts, he is making a consid~arai~le
ing "Yan_:ee iiuperialist:l:?' T3ttt is- anti its effort to exhort rcvohtti?r- contributio.i ',to a unigttq?,e peri-
sues ti*~13ich could produce rn^jor ? in Latitt liz~crica., meet. irn co?xistence acro~;,;7;tleoleg-
exlzlosions have. liven very largely ; Had Castro been willing to ical lines. ~ `
cased. None of this is easy. The rriodus
break away from dependence on ?vivendi could break downrt any
? The United States and Mexico, ,yloscow, and stop, trying to tom- time.
long at odds, are on excellent munize the Hemisphere, an accom When Allezzde's application of
terms to