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provoke jealousy, crisis, conflicts by their misleading and difficult wayof relating?Depends on the level, and the group, and on many factors. We didwhat was possible, but not everything was possible, so we were alwaysin that scramble to debilitate the left and promote repression. That wasalmost daily, and sometimes certain things worked, sometimes not, butwe had to plan with good information. It can’t be done coldly: you mustbe informed and carefully plan what is going to be done and as I say,sometimes you success, sometimes you fail.Was the extreme sectarianism and dogmatism that existed in someEcuadorian leftist leaders exploited?Well, we knew it existed already, we didn’t have to promote it, becausethere were so many problems all around the world in that time, betweenthe Soviet line and the Chinese line, which resulted in the formationof these revolutionary left movements, the MIR, in several countries.So it was a natural process, wherein we did not have to push, perhaps wecould try to exacerbate a situation that already existed.Did you get advantage from the Soviet-Chinese conflict?Yes.Did you promote the presence of, for example, in the case of Ecuador,the Chinese faction to divide the Communist Party?Yes, we did several operations to split and provoke decisions in theparties. At that time there was a real problem between Soviets and Chinese,and that real problem among them got filtered around the worldinto two national parties, and that created a fertile ground for us for ourefforts to penetrate, divide and weaken those parties, and even in a senseyou can say it was successful. But that is very difficult to appraise, it’s very92