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No, no. No, the problem was the left in Ecuador was growing in importanceand influence during those two governments, and when thecoup against Arosemena occurred, a Military Board with four officers,I think, resulted and we were very satisfied with that, because the leftbegan to get repressed immediately.Was repressing the left the target?Yes, and forcing them into exile also.But then, there the point is: were the presidents the ones who ledyou to conspire against them or were their environments?It wasn’t exactly like that. We conducted continuous studies about whatthe left’s threats were, and this, of course, included the Communist Party,and in that time included other leftist political parties as the RevolutionaryYouth Union (Unión Revolucionaria de la Juventud –URJE–); and alsoincluded the governments penetration through the left, namely, Arosemena’sgovernment was quite penetrated by extreme leftist people, as Iwrote in my book (The Company Inside), and we saw that with much fear.In your opinion, were the student movements, the indians, the labormovements, or the Ecuadorian students dangerous?Generally, we postulate our candidates for FEUE elections, and wealso financed Liberal Party and Conservative Party candidates, mainly,and also from the Social Christian movement. So, as is clearly stated inthe book, we had highly penetrated the political life of the country.Was the objective just the left, or was it the country against the left?The objective was to achieve our goals in each Latin American country,and in the case of Ecuador, as I said, that was: First, to isolate the CubanRevolution, this means that we were working to achieve the severingof diplomatic and commercial relations with Cuba by all Latin American76