Chile: the balanced view : a recopilation of articles about the Allende years and after

Back in Argentina, Santucho and his followers have reinitiated violence. Their new sign of attack is the public street murder of Admiral Hermes Quijada, who had played an important role in controlling subversion. But this has not been enough. The wave of crime and violence has continued, and it is well known to the Representatives, since they are . everyday occurrences. One of the latest actions is the mass murder at the small Tucumán town of Santa Lucía, on which The Washington Post gave a full-page report in one of this month's Sunday editions. At the end of July last year. Mr. Chairman. Messrs. Representatives. my country was submerged in the most serious crisis of its history. Teamsters, copper miners. professio– nals, women. workmen. and students had paralyzed the country as a sign of repudiation of the regime oppressing them. . In an attempt to find a solution to the crisis. the government entered into dialogue with the largest opposition party. the Christian Democrats. During those days. the Naval Aide to the President ofthe Republic. Commander Araya. was shot dead under mysterious circumstances. Investigations carried out to solve this police event led to the presence in Chile offour Cubans. That same night. these individuals left the country surreptitiously. Precisely during that period, when the situation in my country was really difficult and we Chileanswere seeking our own solution out of the crossroads in which we found ourselves, two Castro emissaries arrived in Chile: Carlos Rafael Rodríguez and Manuel Piñeiro. They carried a letter to Allende from Castro, whose contents have already been read to the General Assembly of the United Nations in October 1973 and to the General Assembly of the Organization, held in Atlanta in April of this year, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile. It shall, therefore, not be necessary at this stálJe for me to read this document, which is unique for its crudeness and impudent interference in my cOuntry's contingent politics. However, I submit to the Chair a photostatic copy of the original handwritten text, so that it may be filed in the archivesofthis Organizatíon as a furthertoken of a historical era in which aggressiveness, violence, and criminal interference in the internal affairs of my country reached the most unbelievable extremes. Castro's interference in my country has not ceased. The Havana regime continues to carry out acts intended to antagonize the Government of Chile. To this effect, it has used all existing means. Merely as an example, I shall point out two that justify my statement. I have here -and I submit to the Chair- a photostatic copy of the newspaper Granma, dated July 7, 1j374, containing a large heádline announcement of the press conference by one 0f the leaders of armed action, together with the rest of the leaders of the subversive movement. Without departing from the truth. can it be sustained that the Government of Cuba does not wish to interfere in the aftairs of the other states of the Organization, when its territory, its press, and its money are used as means to insult a Latín American government? What would the Representatives say if the government of my country would,pl.lblish in the Diario Oficial a call for the destruction of the government of a member stafe? But this campaign is not only published by the newspaper Granma. With Cuban money, it is also distributed to the rest of the countries in the world. I have here -and I also submit to the Chair- an English version copy of the indicated press conference. which was circulated in London. I must also report that Carlos Altamirano. leader of the former Marxist Socialist Party. travels throughout the world not only with Cuban money, but under the protection of Cuban diplomatic immunity. In fac!. according to information supplied by the French police, Altamirano arrived in Paris with a Cuban diplomatic passport, issued by the Consulate of Cuba in Eastern Germany. We as diplomats, Messrs. Representatives, know how careful the countries are before issuing documents of that kind; how delicate internallegíslation is in regulating the particular case of each one of these situations. If this procedure, seemin– gly accepted by some member states, continues, in the near tuture we shall face the 100