POLITICAL PARTIES IN GUAYAQUIL AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004700090007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT ^r% 67/1
COUNTRY Ecuador
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SUBJECT Political Parties in Guayaquil Area
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lm Luis Maldonado Tamayo, former Ecuadoran Ambassador to Mexico who returned to
Quito a few months ago to head the reorganization of the administration
partyq Movimiento Civic. Democratico Nacional (MCDN), has stated that he soon
will resign if he does not receive stronger support from the administration.
He made this statement after his return from a trip to Guayaquil on 8 March
to confer with VCDN leaders in that city about increasing MCDN voting in the coastal area, He found administration support there scattered ander
poorly organized, having dwindled since 1948 to about 120 men under Luis
Rios and about 80 under Alfredo Gomez,,
2. A major setback to the PCDN was the withdrawal of Guayaquil Mayor Rafael
Guerrero Vaienzuela from the NCDN in the June congressional elections. Guerrero
has indicated that in the future his support 1,1111 probably no to the Alianza
Democratica Ecuatoriana (IDE), the leftist political grow in Guayaquil which
has the support of the Partido Comunista del Ecuador (PCE),. His decision is
believed to be a result of the influence of his Political adviser, Pedro
Jorge Vera a staunch ADE supporter? Most of the rest of the MCDNQs former
supporters have joined Carlos Guevara !4oreno9s Concentra,cion do Fuerzas
Populnres (CFP)0
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3. It is estimated that the TTCDN, counting on active supporters and federal
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out one fifth of the voting strength in the Guayas
province and that an ADE-Guerrero coalition and the CFP could also control
a,hout one fifth each. The remaining two "fifths are at present supporters
of no particular group, but it is believed that many of them will be drawn
to the CFP before the congressional elections in June. Conservative and
Liberal strength in Guayaquil is negligible.
The PCE estimates that the voting strength of the.,' .DE in the Guayas province
is fairly evenly dividMA bet-ft-n- 44.., n-.-.----, -.
Communists considerably stronger in theFGua,0t*s ana we socialists with the
smaller outlying cantons, Party leaders es mate t~totheutwo weaker in the
count on approximately 7,500 votes and that the followers of Franoiscocould
Arizaga Luque, head of the ADE, would increase that total by about 800. It
is further believed that in the event of an ADE-..Guerrero coalition, the ADS
would have the support of Guerrerovs municipal employees and supporters, who
number about 3,500,
CONFIDEN 3 IA.L in accordance with the
letter of '6 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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