LATIN AMERICA REACTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130014-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 3, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

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Within individual countries there are the same dis
turbing developments. This particularly holds for those
0 semi-democracies, such as Argentina, whose civil gov-
ernments: exist largely at the sufferance of the military.
There has been great pressure on President Arturo Illia
-Santiago to send some of the hundreds of idle army units the
} The burnin'gs of U.S. flags and angry. street demon- country is saddled with to Santo Domingo. In other
strations ended in Chile by mid-May; the bold accusing countries, which are not democracies in even the loose,.,
headlines carried by the leftist dailies began to taper definition often used when speaking of anti-Communist
off by early June; the denunciations passed by every regimes (Paraguay and Bolivia come to mind), the.
group from the Association of Secondary School Stu- I 'heavy hand of the generals has been strengthened as a
dents to the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) were
result of the official U.S. position which sees a military
response as the only feasible one in the face of "subver-
sion" in Latin America.
. also completed within a month of the landing of the
U.S. Marines in Santo Domingo. Yet the nagging issues
of intervention and self-determination remain central The decade which began with the great hope of the
to Chileans and all literate Latin Americans. Alianza, the Peace Corps, and U.S. encouragement of
The long-range effects of the unilateral U.S. interven- internal reform has taken a nasty turn. It seems that,
lion in the internal affairs of the Dominican Republic those few countries which have attempted to promote'
are just beginning to, become apparent. Most unfor-'
tunately, right after the first steps have been taken to
'create a common market, Latin America finds itself
Venezuela-have consistently; attacked the U.S. action. Ministers toward the end of the year. The fact'
agricultural reform and strengthen representative gov=
ernment in line with the calls for change enunciated by
President Kennedy are the very ones which will be
seriously divided on the issue of the landing of the opposed to the establishment of a permanent MLF under
Marines. The democracies-Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and the OAS when it is proposed at the meeting of Foreign
and have strongly denied any need for an OAS multi-
lateral peace force '(MLF)'. The opposite camp is
headed by South America's giant, Brazil. In what reads
like a parody of President Johnson's lofty justification
-for the need, and right, to intervene against subversion
anywhere in Latin America, Brazil's Foreign Minister
. recently spoke excitedly of the "fact" that there are no
boundaries where ideology is', concerned.
that two notorious "gorila" states-El Salvador and Bra-
zil-are the colleagues of the U.S. in the negotiations
in the Dominican Republic and that the proposed team
of Latin American liberals, Jose Figueres, Romulo Betan? '
court, and Luis Munoz Marin was quietly dropped the
end of May has also caused anxiety in Chile and else-
where. As it is, every party in Chile except the Conser-
vative (7% of the vote last March) h
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as c
me out against
Brazil, which has more marshals than all the rest of the MLF idea
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.the world combined, has made it clear-in scurrilous pressure to ignore the opposition of almost all of; the
newspaper campaigns against. the "softness" of Chile political parties to participation in the MLF in' Santo
and Uruguay in the face of the Red Menace-that she Domingo. The recent U.S. sale of 50 Skyhawks to'the
intends to play the watchdog in South America. Her Argentine Air Force has p not served to strengthen Illia's'
offer in early June to help crush the rebellious tin miners hand.
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in Bolivia, the stationing of some 12,000 troops near Just as the
"peace keeping" operations in Santo Do-
the borders of democratic Uruguay, and the harrass-.: mingo have aided reactionary military juntas, so too
ment of Chile's charge d'affaires in the Dominican , have'they worked as a catalyst for the extreme left.
Republic by Brazilian OAS forces, are the first gestures which has long been studying "Che" Guevara's how-to-
of this 'gorile regime in currying favor with its more' do-it pamphlet on
suave counterparts in the Pentagon and-C.IYhiB out successful revolution. '
. 1 Paraguay Is (finally) seeing its first Castro-typo activ
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