FIDEL FOE TO 'FIGHT' IN BRAZIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200410001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 15, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MIAMI HERALD
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Aponte to Speak
To Union Men
MAR 15 1964
, When the Communist dirocl-
? erl "First Congress of United
.1,a I in Ainerican Lvhor" \?'as
, called earlier this ye;ii in Bra-
zil, Aponte joined other I k'fl 0)-
I te labor forces on the wile'
in opposing thegathering. ? '
? When he lel 1 for Brazil he
ea rriell photographs and in-
. formation on the ('ii) an del-
egation and its leader, Lazaro
rena,.? head of the Cuban
: Confederation of Workers
? ' and instrimifirt at In organiz-
ing the congress. ?
Aponte also carried photo-
graphs of himself taken with
Castro to refute any criticism
that he was pro-Batista and to.
.assist in his claim that Castro
hail betrayed the revolution.
When he arrived, Aponte
immediately cent acted co m-
rnunications media to publicize
his purpose -and denounce the
congress.
He protested that it was 'fi-
nanced by Cuba,. Red China and
and noted the prepon-?
derance of representatives from,
Communist :bloc countries in
eastern Europe. :
By DON BOHNING
01 Our Latin America Stall
. Onetime Castro labor leader
;Pedro Aponte expects to return
? to Brazil soon. ?
? He'll tell workers in Brazil's
'northeast, where peasant leader
Francisco Juliao follows the
? ;
;
Pedro Aponte
. . . has a purpose
?
The 42-yea rtold Apont
fled .Cuba In November of
1960 when he saw that "Cas-
tro was a Communist."
?
Since, then as a ? member of
the Cuban Democratic Labor
Front (FORDC) Aponte has
'traveled throughout Latin.
'America to Speak with workers
and union leaders. ?
His purpose, like traveling
representatives of other exile.
?groups, is . to counteract the
Castro propaganda being ?dis-
seminated.
Castro doctrine, what Castro's
takeover has done to the labor
'movement and working condi-
tions in Cuba.
From the Latin count-rte.:,
said Aponte. there were "no ,
democra tic la bor p resen In-
lives, only professional aglIa-
tors."
. -1
Aponte spoke to labor groups]
.and labor leaders and told theml
what happens to unions and,
working conditions in .a Com-
munist controlled country.
The Brazilian press publi-
cized Aponte's activities along
with other opposition leaders,
?Local pressures forced the
congress to moire from Belo:
Horizonte to the inland capital-
of Brasilia. ?
Aponte went, too.
. :
?
?
He appeared for 30 min-
utes on a Brasilia television
station, showing photographs
of firing squad executions in
, Cuba and other effects of the
Castro regime.
I' He challenged Pena and. the.
:Cuban delegatibn to a public'
'discussion of the labor situation!
in Cuba.
,When the challenge Was re-
fused, Aponte -claimed it ws
,"because the cause of Red Cuba!
'is indefensible." ? '
Aponte and FORDC consider.,
his mission successful and cite.
the coverage the Brazilian
in m?ganizing a single Com- ,
munist controlled labor group ,?
for all of Latin America.
'
:press gave him.
They'feel it was the activ1:?_
ty of 'Aponte and other,
' groups a-nil individuals that.':
prompted the postponement
As a result of the campaign.
against it .by opposition forces,
a FORDC representative said,.
."all the people of Latin Amer-
ica know the congress failed.
"M a n y organizations -and
rmtny people worked for its,
defeat . . . all democratic or-f.
ganiations fought together and,
-Mr. Aponte, was a part of the;
fight.". ??. ?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/18: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200410001-0