La-CIA-contra-America-Latina-Capitulo-especial-Ecuador

THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAUS terrorism against Cuba, more than two thousand have become disabledfor the rest of their lives, due to US terrorism. So there were notonly the political actions that we made for Uganda. etc., when I was inUruguay, but also that the CIA was active in promoting armed and terroristactions against a country like Cuba. So they got into everything. Butin the 70’s, regarding Cuba, a new thought emerged and they decided inthe early 80’s, to start promoting democracy, and they still do.Doesn’t the damage you historically caused us hurt?When I was there yes, in a certain way, but those were other times. Myown thoughts were different, so all that was justified then. When I wrotethe book, of course, I relieved once again a lot of that, and it stimulatedmy writing, that is to say, not letting me divert, I had huge conflicts whenI was writing that book, the first one.Internal conflicts, external, governmental, persecutions, etc?Well, yes, I was chased in the streets of Paris, in London, I didn’t havemoney, I almost could not eat, and I had to struggle very hard to have thebook. But I also had the support of several crucial persons, which solvedfor me certain problems, including financial problems.When you left the CIA and decided to speak, I am more than surethat you did think about it: Why would we trust a former CIA agentwho comes and tells us these things? To what extent can the data youentered for history be valid, especially coming from someone who desertedfrom the CIA?I didn’t desert, I renounced. My idea was to start a new life and forgetabout all that. I was in Mexico City, at the embassy in Mexico, and went thereto work with regard to the Olympics in 1968. I called myself “Olympic Added”and arrived there a year and a half before the Olympics to cultivate rela-99