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eached, because Diaz Ordaz, the president of Mexico, worked intimately withthe CIA as well López Mateos before him, and later, Echeverría, all of them.Then, there was a secret agreement according to which the Mexican embassyin La Habana would remain opened, as a listening and observation station,and Mexican diplomatic who worked with us were sent there, to Mexican Embassyin La Habana. So, the fact that Mexico didn’t break relations with Cuba,while all others did, was merely because a secret agreement was reached tomaintain a listening position here in La Habana, through the Embassy.Mr. Agee, how did President Kennedy consider Ecuador? (Becausethat was the time when Agee operated in our country) What has hisvision regarding our country?To be honest I don’t know what he thought about Ecuador, but what Ido know is that when he became president, and shortly after, I think it wasin March 1961, Kennedy met with Latin American ambassadors in Washingtonand announced what was named the Alliance for Progress. Nowthis was for a series of reforms in order to eliminate the worst existinginjustices, beginning with land issues. At that time it was a slightly progressiveprogram, I was very supportive because I studied Ecuador before going.I became familiar with the latifundium and smallholding problems andmany other things, including the distribution of income and wealth; I knewthat there were huge injustices and one did not have to do anything butto move along the city of Quito or go to Latacunga and observe all that.All that began with a personal political transition in me, that is to say,that while the months and years went by, I didn’t watched the reforms materialized,that is to say, that the US had a dilemma in Latin America, evenEcuador, because if they encouraged these reforms the doorway could beopen for leftist governments and Cubans were setting the example, for84