SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE LATIN AMERICAN LEFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 23, 1965
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
STILLXOBNCI
cr
1,965
A
tI
riald
# h
AwIW a =mbew of
c it
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
LLASSISD
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
23 Decor 1965
t the Latin Ameri Left
spectruza in
in the United Staten, is akwed
consider political orientation in Latin America
local standard, but instead project our
tens of that is right* center or left. When
terming abou
0 W*
Lversitt and le
are, of course?
about something that I
2. ale si of the Latin left is a
the area's social and eco?c inequities: the relatively
sman nir, of the very veal
largest part of the
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
cape
nUghtened practices historically of most private
ists, the slow and inefficient course of governmental
programs. One element of the arning in Latin America
,.< and an element so per
vasive as to constitute a major factor itself has been
ptence of one or another version of the historical in-
terpretatio of Karl Marx.
For very large numbers,, particularly
) rx's general approach and his treatment of the
process of economic change make sense because they seem to be
in accord with things that have happened and are happening in
ins is ephasized by professors
lee= so much so that some of it tends to rub
graduates of conservative persuasion as well as on those
of the various hues of the left. Some use of Marxist jargo
and slogans;, moreover,, is made by almost aU parties of the left;
not merely by the Cam nuniat and socialist ones.
* is phenomenon can produce interee
cations. For Instance p a branch of
on l) Ohal of
snt in Brazil calls itself, ce olfc you for Strt
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
provide
guide as to w bat t ey stand fbr or
party I s nee
ob biy causer-
,y,
3t or near center a Mn"-
e # but not necessarily to
pmetically
sib of the Socisliet Parties of Chile
d ea aboute *a a jpod thins, the
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
Paz In
6. The road of
has to opera
Sold= a e ipt that
got mueb co
t of wdi
e and phi
requires
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
reason uby a leader
70
:tea, e.g. y tb* Small AW(UP of fiSU
in Arm 1
of a * 1e te= of
- sc C
biggest Of thM
-.have I
}}~y or
violeme o
m
of u`G,to
been pnr d-
;ei t
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
MMASSVM
of the HeinAuticnary Let ( R), but a motion In the
of other
or couaw1., violet bode.
one seem not to the C - et
w
azure the turbulence they we ww producing
r by WaMWO Of f i r - potential
aereuta.
ee crZanizations
v*, but,, at Imwt for
9. Wo have aIr"'%r . ut r
lutie
are, at
d paeu
ut the bbvewnt of the BOVO.
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2
 Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904A001200020003-2
A the '
the its had had mw
Ablics, the bwge t and most emcee;
left h h melt r of the t C et
nm-
sties, but the 14th of Jum Motet nth *=tvdns .
commista =me
cOU*$ OPP=
Jum Lem'. tiowl 7? rt r t l,
eat than a
ct if the MAOT
mt
natlemust
D NATIMAT, i
it re=d of
Approved For Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP79R00904AO01200020003-2