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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICA(3) The Second Independence Movement made its own translationfrom English to Spanish of Agee’s book, in 1976, the part related to hiswork in Ecuador (over 200 pages)(4) Refers to General Aurelio Naranjo, who a year before the coup of1963, played an important role under the command of the United States.He was then Leader of the 3rd Military Zone, with HQ in Cuenca. All theway there went the direct flight from Panama of the Leader of the Commandoof the South Pacific, General Theodore Bogart, who met withNaranjo and other military men. The next day Naranjo gave an ultimatum:either President Arosamena broke up the raltionship with Cuba orhe would be overthrown. The break up happened shortly after but thePresident was still overthrown.(5) It was the era of hard ideological confrontation between the CommunistParty of China and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Virtuallyall Communist Parties of America, including that of Ecuador, werefanatically pro-Soviet, while China fostered within them forming groupsto identify themselves with their policy. This rupture occurred everywhere,turning derogatory name “Chinese” and “big heads” with one another inEcuador. Roura, Echeverría and other leaders formed the Marxist LeninistCommunist Party (MLCP), which derived its electoral arm, the MPD.(6) The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was theresult of the October Revolution of 1917. It collapsed and disappearedin 1989/1990, disintegrating the Union and separating itself from Belarus,Ukraine, Georgia, etc. Russia was left standing or the FederativeRepublic of Russia, as it is also known.(7) “The bloody years of the anti communist campaign” refers mainlyto the period from 1960/63, where the rightwing, financed, armed and47