Latin American Trends
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LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS
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Argentina-Cuba: Castro support for
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Argentina-Cuba: Castro Support for Local Subversion?
Two leftist subversives in the hands of Argentine authorities have detailed what they claim is Cuban support for terrorism in Argentina.
Argentine security forces last month captured Patricio Biedma and Mario Espinosa, Chileans who for come time had been working for the terrorist causa in Argentina. Biedma says he was both the leader of Chile's Leftist Revolutionary Movement (MIR) in Argentina and that group's delegate to theCoordinating Juntaoose coalition of regional terrorist organizations. Espinosa claims also to haveIR member and mostombatant for the Argentine Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP).
Biedma states that he met frequently with anof the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires whoegular basis" provided funds for the JCR as well as
Espinosa echoes the assertion that Cuba's embassy provides funds to Argentine leftists and says that he himself was trained in Cuba and then introduced to the ERPuban contact in Argentina.
Argentine authorities began investigating links between the terrorists and the Cuban embassy almost immediately following the March coup. By mid-summer the Argentines were said to be nearly certain that the embassy wasafe haven for top ERP members and others ass^iated with that group.
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