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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAcountries. When I arrived there, Velasco Ibarra had been reelected, bythe fourth time or something like that, and he didn’t wanted to breakwith Cuba, neither his most important ministers, neither Arosemenawhen he replaced Velasco, so we had to fight continuously, by trying tocause provocations that would lead to a rupture, through propaganda,and specially by political action through these political parties. Finallywe got it, I don’t remember exactly when, maybe in March 1962 or thereabouts,when Arosemena’s government…Came into power!No, he had been the authority for several months already, but a revoltin Cuenca occurred, I think, by the military men in that sector, andCuenca was very important at that moment in regard to military services.Now, did you get to divide, to weaken, and almost to disappear theCommunist Party? Did you get to fragment it, to de point of almostnullifying it?I don’t think that happened during the time I was there. Throughout Ecuador,there are divisions among the mountain range and the coast, and theParty was divided somehow like this: in those years, the Provincial Committeeof Pichincha was almost like a Central Committee of the mountain rangeand in the coast was the Directorate, headed by Pedro Saad.Then, did you get to penetrate more into the mountain range’s one,the Pichincha’s, the Rafael Echeverría Flores one?I don’t remember very well now, it’s been many years since I look overthis, but the Party in both places, that is to say, both in the coast and inthe mountain range, was penetrated. We had agents that were militatingin the Party and we also had technical operations: listening, photographing,etc. So we knew quite well what was happening inside the Party, but77