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...centuries-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru. At issue was a triangle of steaming upper Amazon jungle almost as big (77,000 sq. mi.) as Ecuador itself. For 400 years the tract had been claimed by both nations. Then, in 1942, the U.S. -along with Brazil, Argentina and Chile - promoted a settlement, the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro, based on Peru's de facto control. Under the protocol, the four nations were also to serve as guarantors of the peace...
Menocal added an anecdote illustrating Cubu's role as a "Communist tool." Castro told him to send 12,000 tons of sugar to Chile after the earthquake there, he said, but he found that "for every bag of sugar the ships were being loaded with a bag of Russian propaganda...
...have not yet come to power, or hold it only shakily, and are not under direct and complete Moscow discipline. The most wholehearted approval of Liu's blast reportedly came from the leaders of none-too-sizeable Communist parties in four Latin American countries-Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay and Chile-as well as from Albania, Indonesia and North Korea. Some delegations apparently split-e.g., Argentina's intellectual Communist wing leaned to Liu, while its old-line trade unionists backed Moscow. At least one delegation played it down the middle: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht professed devotion...
...Chile. Still stable, but undergoing a barrage of Castro and Communist propaganda (one-third of the "relief" Cuba sent after the earthquakes last May turned out to be revolutionary pamphlets). The leader of Chile's main labor confederation, orating over the coffins of two men killed in labor violence three weeks ago, threatened that Santiago would become "the Sierra Maestra" of Chile...
Moises Leyton of Chile declared that it would take longer than three years for people to learn to work effectively in his country...