“February 1966.1 Delegations of Christian Democrats from Venezuela, Peru, ) Chile, Colombia, and Germany will attend the congress.2 2. The MDC is preparing to hold elections for positions on the :1 - executive committee. Field Comments; 1. The Eighth National Congress of th”
“CHECK ONEI MARRED FRY INDERING NO INMING REQUIRED INDERING CAN BE JUDGED BY QUALIFIED HO DESE ONLY > 1. Attached for the information of Headquarters is the "political bible" of the MDC, a recently announced organization which has hopes of blossoming into a political party. Also a”
“ntral Dolores Lic) Valentin, ARENAS Amalio FIALLم RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce The HIDC is not highly organized. A basic organization exists in all provinces with Camaguey the best organized having a membership of 600-1,000... The Santiago de Cuba organizati”
“bdieite: SECRET/NO FOREIGI DISSEM -2- 1 -311/12432-66 Institute of Fine Arts, and member of the Muvimiento Social Democrats Cristiano (MSDC), has undertaken to collect funds for Rico from among their mutual friends. Sra. de Rico hoo told Zorrilla that she and her husband”
“not discourage the belief that it is the chosen labor instrument of the Christian Democratic movement, although this label has never been formally bestowed. 11. Closer Ties Between CLASC and CD Movement Appear Likely. It appears likely that a more organic participation of CLA”
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“14-00000 SECRET Ho. Foreign Dissent the CD movement, a closer and and controls that will impinge more' formal relationship appears on their freedom of action. to be in the offing. Last April, officials of. CLASC who are also In general, ODCA takes a officers of the Chris”
“parties further left. The fact, remains, nevertheless, that Christian democracy is the most unified non-Communist movement in Latin America. It cannot be labeled democratic or anti-Communist because of the behavioral aberrations of several national partics. 24. Treed for Ecl”
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“been held with representatives of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE, Students*. Revolutionary Directorate), and there is an "agreement in principle" to coordinate future actions, There is no political commitment. 9. In July JorgeMas Canosa, chief of press and pr”
“14-00000 L ANON CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECR ET 300K DISPATCH 5961 courses) have been discouraging. In most instances the teachers share identical biases with the students with the result that misconceptionsare reinforced and no new horizons are opened up. Frei and Cal”
“14-000001 CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH’ SECRET BOOK DISPATCH 5961 23. Growth Potential Exists, Put Much Less Th.in Originally Anticipated-. The CD movement has made only modest progress the / past two years. Indications are that the development of the movement will be much sl”
“14-00000 ELATION CCR. UATICN OF. DISPATCH SECRET iDOOS DISPATCH 5961 represent key factors in the development of the Christian Democratic movement in Latin America. Our major purpose is to determine, some two years after the Frei victory, whether the generally enthusiasti”
“CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH S EC RET 5961 to request ODCA approval of the creation of this Coordinating Committee and ODCA recognition of CLASC as its chosen hemispheric labor instrument. The eventual approval of the ODCA leadership appears likely; indeed, it is doubtful that ”
“CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDC), TOLD OTHER PDC LEADERS THAT HE CONSIDERED IT WISEST FOR HIM TO LEAVE CHILE IN THE NEAR FUTURE AND FOR HIM TO REMAIN ABROAD UNTIL THE Directions OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT BECOME CLEARER AND THE SECURITY SECRET”
“to the left. In Panama, the massive training program to pro dominant wing of the CD youth has duce a moderating trend. assumed positions at least as radical as the Communists. And The Labor Arm in the Dominican Republic the Social Christian group in the Na A major influenc”
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“personalistic or tied to financial interests. If the . Panama CD succeeds in expanding its middle-class base and attracts militants from the predominantly negro and mestizo population, it could become a force of some importance. c. While the Brazilian PDC polled a mere 4 perc”
“September 1964 Chilean Presidential election led many to hope that Christian Democracy might develop significantly throughout Latin America _competing with Communism on ideological grounds and offering an alternative, democratic route to social and economic progress. Christia”
“14-00000 SECRET Je Foreign Dissam CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA The decisive victory of Eduardo Frei in. the Sep tember -1964 Chilean presidential election led many to hope that Christian Democracy would develop signifi-. cantly throughout Latin America, competin”
“The former PDC has made from student organizations in the no attempt to reconstitute itself, local universities. In most but its former members "will prob countries of the hemisphere, CD ably join with like-minded con voting strength on the campus is gressmen to pursue poli”
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“movement is generally agreed to challenged by the left, wing of be of current political signifi his own party, which may capture cance in only four Latin American control in the next two or three countries—Chile, Peru, Venezuela, years. and El Salvador. In. only one of thes”
“Guatemalan PDC was only recently recognized as - a legally constituted party. This nascent group has good strength in the youth and student movement and growth potential in the important campesino sector. Current direction of the party leaves much to be desired; PDC leader Re”
“support to youth and student formation, political training institutes and CLASC training institutes. (See Attachment A for a detailed flow chart.) CONCLUSIONS 19. CD’s Challenge Communist Domination of the University. It was noted in Para. 5 above that almost without except”
“Christian Democracy simplybecause it has emotional or inspirational appeal. 21. CD Failure to Transform Affinity of Lower Classes into Votes. The inadequately educated and the lower social classes in Latin America are inevitably motivated by the pragmatism of the possible; t”
“CONTINUATION OF . DISPATCH SECRET PATCH 5961 continue to tolerate and thus abet the irrespon lity of the Latin CO parties because there are no standards all. ODCA leader Caldera appears to recognize the need for at least some basic ideological common ground among ODCA-membe”
“14-00000 SECRET No Foreign Dissem 1962, but the party had signifi The remaining nine Chris cant strength in three important tian Democratic parties--in Ar south-central states (Parana, gentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Sao Paulo, and Guanabara). Like Rica, Ecuador, Mex”
“the Central American parties appear close and cordial) but rather a desire to establish a smaller and more cohesive unit that can better address itself to the problems co.con to the area and, to a lesser extent, to the individual CD parties. UDCCA is comprised of five parties”
“regional ..political movement may have an group, the Christian Democratic adverse effect on CD youth' Union of Central America, was or wings, which--being further left ganized last July. It now has than their parent parties — have five member parties, in Guatemala, identifi”
“insignificant measure on the posture assumed and progress achieved by CLASC. More often than not, the judgement of a mass movement is based on the worst element comprising it — and in this regard CLASC is challenged only by the party youth and student wings. As an organized ”
“that Henry Molina( Sec.Gen. of Confederation Autonoma de Sindicates Cristianos CASC-D. R. ) even if highly critical of US intervention in D.R. is an outspoken communist and ho recommends him as a material for recruitment. recrui tment. 6 4, Hollna spoke very favorably of Con”
“TIN CONTINUATION Of DISPATCH S E CRET BOOK DISPATCH 5961 3. Parties of Moderate Potential, Applying even the most . generous criteria to the judgement of. potential, there are not .more than four CD parties — in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Brazil and Guatemala -- that ”
“the judgment in return for a share of the as of potential, there are not more sembly seats in the next election. than four other CD parties—in A long-range goal would be to the Dominican Republic, Panama, acquire support within Arias' Brazil, and Guatemala—that might party a”
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“the university ranks. right of the Venezuelan political spectrum and opening new sources The Panamanian PDC was reg of support. istered some five years ago and polled only 3.1 percent of the In El Salvador, the PDC votes in 1964. Although it con garnered 31.2 percent of t”
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“14-00000 / a-1032 ,Pag 2 .26 of July Movement Youth . ■ ------ - . - Certain working yutha - -3. The letter lists the following agreements arrived at at this meeting: ‘. 1) Publish a manifesto rooudiatinig partial elections and calling / , - ." . , ... • for 10 action ”
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“agreement among its' Latin American CDs; consequently members on doctrine or principles. the Americans were moving to the Moreover, the individual parties political left as the Europeans have made very clear that they were moving to the right. will fight any effort—whether i”
“doctrine or basic agree- ment on just what they want. 14. Efforts to Fira Do the ODCA Role. We have asked contacts in European CD circles to prod ODCA to set criteria for membership and behavior and that the Europeans weigh petitions for support * from the Latin American par”
“University, however, polled 40.2 percent of the vote in 1966. These comparitive figures suggest some conclusions which are presented in Paras. 19 and 20 below. .6. Radicalization of Youth Wings. Several CD leaders, most notably Frei and Caldera, have expressed considerable c”
“Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama God, to serve his Land, to serve his countrymen by gining ore working —both locally and collectively - on plans to establish them an opportunity to live in a free and just land. His life an Union of Central American University Students. Althou”
“14-00000 SECRE r No Foreign Dissen Venezuela’s Christian Demo led by Coanabo Javier, has aban crats (COPEI) have strong hopes doned, at least for the time being, of duplicating the victory of the the irresponsible policies it Chilean party in 1968 and appear adopted aft”
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“/' SCA 3 D February 7,1966 PICO’S TRIP TO MEDELLIW After reading Pice's report and talking to him twice I reached following conclusions 1 I ACHIEYEMENR3 el Pico —1. Achieved with the cooperation of Edgar Maduro to soften the anti-US line in the Declaration of Princip”
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“thus should not be included ina , Listing of significant CD parties. Some weight is added to this argument by the very recent split off of a dissident faction of the PDC into a separate party. However, the inclusion of the Peruvian party here is based primarily on the fact t”
“0 Secret No Foreign Dissem ELLIGe. Fab: CD d s te . file ENTRAZ JN30 DN . 1 6 N DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY Special Report Christian Democracy in Latin America Secret N2 1100 3 March 1967 No. 0279/67A:”