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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAexample the first Agrarian Reform in May 1959. Everybody knew that a lotof injustices in Latin America were originated by land distribution, and I,as I was in favor of all these programs and reforms that Kennedy started,became disappointed while I noticed that they were not going to performeffectively. The fact is that I started working in CIA and travelled to Quitoas a successful student but with no political education. That didn’t use tohappen in the 50’s, so I received a political education once I was in LatinAmerica, first in Ecuador, then in Uruguay and the in Mexico and it was ashift of ideas process which led to my renounce from the CIA, but that wasabout eight years after I went to Quito.When you arrived, you met with Velasco Ibarra. How politically definedwas Velasco Ibarra for you?Frankly I didn’t understand Velasco Ibarra, he talked about a lot ofthings and I only remember the people called him “the Madman”, atthat time. He changed his political colors several times during that long,long career, so I don’t have an impression of Velasco Ibarra, only that hedidn’t want to break with Cuba and that he was a little unstable.And in the case of Arosemena, how do you politically situate CarlosJulio Arosemena?About him, everybody knew about his alcohol issues and we receivedseveral rumors, stories about his weird behavior. The immediate cause ofhis downfall, is known, was that dinner with president Resh Bank, so wedidn’t appreciate Arosemena as much, we didn’t respected him much.But then, did the CIA helped to displace Arosemena? Why did thecoup against Arosemena occurred with the military who wielded themain control position then?Well, what happened is that we had a constant and continuous cam-85