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I was about to say that we continuously conducted studies about thepossibility of an outbreak of violence, that is to say that US Army SpecialForces, based in Panama, would make regular visits to Ecuador, Peru andBolivia etc., studying the problem as well, in other words, the level ofthreat posed by the left, both through elections, and by armed struggle.After your intervention, after what you did, do you think that youattained to weaken the Ecuadorian left?I think to some extent yes, at that time, as a lot of repression befellafter the Military Broad entered in command. That was approximatelyJuly 1963 and many of the leaders were exiled, so they had to go toforeign countries, and I believe that repression debilitated in some measurethe left. But the left would never disappear, because the objectiveconditions in Ecuador were so extreme that by themselves promoted thegrowth of the left. In this regard I mean distribution of wealth, distributionof income, analphabetism, and the Indigenous Communities conditionsin Ecuador. Today we can appreciate what has happened yearsafter, in countries like Venezuela, Bolivia or Uruguay.Almost similar conditions…Well, for me that is the evidence that, in despite of everything we didand others have been doing through all these years and keep doing todayfrom Quito’s embassy, from Guayaquil Consulship, those are realitiesthat don’t vanish, because they have to keep that struggle, to preserveAmerican interests.Does this division against left, with prepared, fragmenting, operationskeeps being an aim of the CIA?Well, a tactic was to divide and penetrate the leftist movement.And to establish parallel parties?78