PARAGUAYAN COMMUNIST PARTY MEETINGS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400410011-2
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Paraguay
SUBJECT Paraguayan communist Party meetings
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1. The assembly of Cozniet party leaders* hold in Parana, Paraguay during the
latter part of January 1949 was attended by Paraguayan Communist PartCPP)
leaders, Rodolfo Ghioldi of the Argentine Co nunist Party, Enrique Rodriguez
of the Uruguayan Coamnnnls t Party, and E. Costadoni of the Chilean Communist
Party.
2. The foreign delegates were welcomed by the Paraguayan Communists, Obdulio Barthe,
who emphasized the sufferings and struggle of the CPP, stating that the Party
must seek aid from every source. He called for international cooperation and
cited the necessity of forming a counter-espionage network in South America to
combat the work of the "Yankee de etives".
3. The opening speech was made by the Paraguayan Communist, Antonio Bonsi, ** in
the name of Oscar Creydt, prominent leader of the CF?, Augueto Canete and other
Paraguayan Communist leaders who were not present.
k. The principal speech of the assembly vas delivered by Rodolfo Ghioldi who spolm
of the sufferings of Comnunist prisoners in Paraguay and praised the fight being
carried on by the CPP. He said the Argeptine Communist Party was well organized
and pledged its aid to the CPP. The main point of Ghioldi(s speech was his call
for a Continental Union of Commmniot Parties against anti-democratic forces. The
speech was replete with expletives against the United States, and Ghioldi stated
that the work of continental union must be carried out by leaders only, in a
manner no secret that the "Yankee gestapo" would not learn their plans. ***
5._ Ghioldi reportedly stated that if the contents of this speech were to become
known to the Peron government the Argentine Communist Party would probably be
persecuted as strongly as is the CPP.
6. E. C utadoni., representing the Co ist Organizations of Chile, pledged fun
aid of the Chilean Communist Party and the Chilean people to the CPP.
7. A message was brought by Enrique, Rodriguez on behalf of the `}peeial Uruguayan
Emergency Commission (La Comision Aispooial do Emergencia Uruguaya). Rodriguez
added that the Communist Party of Uruguay pledged full support of Paraguayan
Communists as well as continental solidarity, 'through its secretary General
Eugenic Gomez and Uruguayan Comnvn is Julia Arevalo de Roche and Isabel Pinto
do Vidal,
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August Cane
Jose Bandure
Arsenio Ihave z
Ranulfo Srit4?s
Victorian Baas
Domir go Aguiier
'Tito Dias
Donifacio Sall;ano
Lucas Ramirez
Ernesto Eepindo
Antonio R ben c s
lnibsl Delm a
Antonio Azau,rra
Carlos Bogacio
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Asuncion Torres
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Jose A. Flores
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Ltigoberto Pereira
Antonio Nunes
wilfri.do Acosta
Anarielo Castillo
Antonio G marry
Caliito Bogado
Marcos Zeida
Alfonzo Guerra
Timoteo Ojeda
Alfredo Alcorta
Francisca Martinesi
Elva Armoa
Onofre Ruiz Diaz
J. Vicente B. Cuellar
Fulgenaio Merino
Josefina Torres
Barth spoke in the name of Pa rd< yn Cum ist leaders in jail in Asuncion
and listed the followi nammtn, adding that there were five hundred more vb
he had not time to menttio is
Encarnacion Get
Estela Vera M'artines+
Furitioacion Gomesz
Lucid Oregano Roa
Efrain Ibsriez
Anibal Francisco Codas
Maria L 1ena -tines
Blanca Seifar
Chirglita Ramirez
Paqul.ta Doria
Irma l3ritez
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10. At a mail meeting in Asun:oion on 15 JaWar7 1949, Antonio Sanehes, Secretary
of Agitation and Propaganda of the CPP, delivered an address in which he stated
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that there will never be pace in Paraguay as long as the "falae Colorados" were
in power. Under the category of "false Colorados" he included the Guion Rojo,
followers of em-President Higini.o Tforinigo, Felipe Molas Lopez, Liberato Rodrigues
and Lt. Colonel Adalberto Cane''', all of 'whom were beaked by "the Yankee
imperialists" who wanted to impede the pacification of Paraguay. Sanchez called
for Communist cooperation with the better elmente of the Colorado Party to oust
these "false Colorados" He t*u 'her stated that the people should not be misled
by a United States or Argentine .loan, for these foreigners merely wanted to with-
draw more of the riches of Paraguay,
gMMI.. Bonzi had been in jail in Asuncion but was released in
December 1948 through sornai inexplicable error on the part of the Asuncion police.
He went to Buenos Aires as Paraguayan delegate to a meeting in that city on
4 January 1949 and is now living irk exile in Formosa, Argentina.
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