ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF ECUADOR

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBECT Act5vities of the Communist Party of -7,cuador
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1. Pedro Saad, Acting Secretary General of the Communist - Party of 3cuador,
arrived in Quito on 29 March 1949 and immediately entered into closed
conferences with local Party leaders. The ?GE Central Committee had decided
that Saad should abide by the Party statutes and change his residence from
Guayaquil to Nito since the top Party leaders take a very serious view of the
international situation and believe that Saad should be available in case of
emergency. Cesar''..;ndara, a member of the Central Committee in charge of
political affairs, stated that Saad hal refused to accept the decision of the
Central Committee because he did not foresee any 'mediate necessity for
moving to nano permanently. Sand added that he would eove to 2uito in June
1949 to attend the PCE IV National Congress,* and that he did not believe that
anytIling of importance would happen before that.
2. Sand's reason for holding this opinion was a letter from a contact in Paris
who had written that while the danger of wer exists, indications are that it
will not come this spring. The contact ad.led. that it is known that the
Inited.States is planeing to start another war be usirig. a surprise attack of
enormous proportions, but that the USSR has already set up a means of counter?
acting it.
3. The Central Committee has decided to use all available funds to publish
El 12ualaka again on a bi?weekly basis. Mario Luis Gomez de la Torre, PCE
Secretary of Propaganda, is in charge of publishing the newspaper and worked
on a.fourepage edition which wad to be published on 4 April and a special Pan
American edition to be published on 15 April. Mout 1500 copies of each
edition were planeed, to be distributed in luito and Guayaquil. The principal
distributors of El Fuel* in quito are Gustavo 3ecerra, Luis Antonio Cofre?
Manuel Rivas, and Salomon Mendoza.
4.. The Central Committee has purchased a motion picture projector and has made
areal-elements to obtain a number of USSR propaganda films from abroad. The
filns are expected to arrive in 3cuador in 'ay and .will be used for propaganda
purposes in stall coastal comnunities. ?
5. Comnunist leaders in Guayaquil have been building up and creating new low?
level units within the PCE during March. On 18 March the inaugural meeting of the
the Huancavila cell was held and the following cell officers were presents
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'1111The PCE Central Committee met in a plenary session in
,enuar.nse the date for the IV National Party Congress on 6 June 1949.
For two years attempts have been male to set the date for the Congress, but
each time that a date had been decided it had to be postponed. The PCE
.ds to hold a Congress to revise its statutes, to legalize numerous changes
in its admipistration, and to elect new officers.
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