LATIN AMERICA - 4. CUBA REPORTEDLY INTERVENING IN ECUADORAN AFFAIRS

Created: 3/21/1960

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LATIN AMERICA

Cub* Reportodly Intervening in Ecuadoran Affairs: Government, which is already cool toward theof Fidel Castro and opposed to his projectedof "underdeveloped nations" scheduled for Havana is likoly to becomo further estranged by reportsis intervening in Ecuador's Internal affairs. l|^fyS^[ftWy, the Ecuadoran ambassador InCa*fem>*<

nis government That Castro's secretary hadizable sum of money for use against Ecuador. He also warned the government to maintain close surveillance over all Cuban visitors to Ecuador.

Cuban Communists and tho Cuban Government arobo aiding various leftist groups In Ecuador whichthe campaign of the Communist NationalUnion (UDNA) for the June elections. and vlce-prosidontial candidates of theParra and Benjaminleftist,tho United States, and strong Castrowhoell-financed leftist revolutionaryvisited Havana recently and Is suspected oflarge

21 Mar 60

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