LATIN AMERICA - CASTRO-SPONSORED NEWS AGENCY MEETING INCREASED HOSTILITY IN LAT

Created: 7/5/1960

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LATIN AMERICA

News Agonc y_ Meeting Increased Hostility

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Comment: Prensa Latlna never gained significant business In Ecuador, and has never had wide acceptance among Latin American editors and newscasters. Use of its servicesow following its signing last January of exchange agreements the official news agencies of the Soviet Union, Commu-China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other Soviet bloc and neutralist countries.