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

Jesús Menéndez Attaché Héctor Silva Second Secretary Alexis Pérez Alvarez Attaché Julio Hernández Socanes Attaché Osvaldo Hernández NioJla Attaché Daniel Herrera Pérez Third Secretary Carlos Benet Attaché Angel Brugues Pérez Second Secretary But the Castro-communist penetration into my country was not only carried out through Cubans entering the country by whateyer mean,s. Chileans travelled to Cuba, moreover, to receive military and guerrilla instruction. We shall submit that copious list to the American governments together with the corresponding information. Among those Chileans who received training, some very outstanding names may be found: Fernando Alfredo Cádiz Zamora, member of the MIR Regional Committee for Valpa– raíso. He remained in Cuba for 45 days, during which he received milítary instruction in shooting, use of short and long weapons, and in the manufacture and operation of explosi– ves and incendiary bombs; Lucy del Fierro Vergara, member of tne Socialist Party. Responsible for illegally obtaining passports for people travelling to and from Cuba; Patricio Rivas Herrera, responsible for the military activities of the Santiago 'Regional Division of the MIR. He travelled to Cuba together with 15 other men in the beginning of 1973 to atfend a two-month course on tank destruction. Among those who trayelled wíth him were many merl)bers of doctor Allende's personal guard; Sergio Santos Señoret, MIR head of logistics, travelled to Cuba together with a groupof Chileans to attend a 45-day course on shooting, arming and disarming of explosives, blasting, topography, and small unít command, and Ricardo Ruz Zañartu, member of the MIR Central CommittEíe, travelled twice to Cuba during the summer of 1972, remaining on the island for a total ofthree months. He received basic instructior;¡ in arms and explosives. . But this is not all yet, Messrs, Representatives. To the mísfortune of my country, Castroite intervention went much further in Chile during the chaotic years w'e endured under Marxist protection. The system of ínfiltration and preparation for the gory clash that was to finally destroy my cou[ltry's republican system, basically set a foothold in the flights of Compañía Cubana de Aviación. ihe figures speak for themselves. Between January 1971 and September 1973, Cubana de Aviación regu lar fl i9hts -and Iunderl ine this- carried on Iy 10,793 kilos of mail from Chile toCuba, but 71,630.44 kilos from Havana to Santiago. Does this mean that tor every Chilean writing to Havana, 7 Cubars would answer his !etters? No. 98