CARDENAS, STILL ENIGMATIC BACKS MEXICO CITY PARLEY

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CIA-RDP64B00346R000200170026-8

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December 15, 2016

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February 13, 2004

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Approved For Release 20 4/0 1 :CIA-RDP64B00346R000200170026-8 ~I~e ~'ew dark ~i ADoL u S. Oaf Publiaher,UM64 35 PUELISHL'D EVLZT DAT Dr ?US YE" $Y THE NEW YQlfGTuMOmMA I* ARTSQR HAYS ,ULZSZRQER J%Wishor- Chairman of the Board ORVIL E. DRYPOOS. Q ~" RAlLnINo F_ flA jcio,T President FMORY H. $EADPOjt% 7b1.lAraN , The Mexican Confers cow` The sensationally heralded "Latin -American disappointed his friends and admirers by lendin Conference for. National Sovereignty, Economic his impressive name and prestige to a conference Ethanclpation and Peace" has come and in that did not represent Wigs for which he has fiane stood. Mexico City withou His own address to the' meeting was be. t making a sensation. It can moderate and was not ant!?Yaifet. c,nsidered a f4ilure. The advance notices threatened a meetin that , Despite widespread bellet$ In; the' United g Stales. L[zaro Cardenas Is not anti-American would rally Latin-American opinion to Fldeliarno and her certainly never was, andia not' a Com- and against the United States. As it turned out, monist. His position in history is t4*t,of, .tkc ,there was more communismo than Fidellumo. 'Mexican patriot and champion of the The final resolutions were mainly it the same ? completed the program of the MexIc n pro t- ola Communist line--against "American, so()- tion in his Presidential term frc 04M, t 1040. nomic imperialism" and the Monroe Doctrine, for ' He has spent his life in behalf of the Mexican an independent Puerto Rico and a free PAnanta peasants, and be belongs in the line of the Canal Zone. There was- a section and mAny ".humanistic, 11beral traditions -of Latin America, speeches in favor of the Cuban revolution, but Ldsaro Cardenas was a the emphasis as elsewhere. great revolationdry, but like Fidel Castro he does not seem to have The conference, in short, was anothe f that Fidelisriol ie being weakened in the hemi. tiailyyccounter-revvollutiona e. I and esser. sphere by its alliance with comet a ~' forte. -Ame ttt.` ,No ican ideals and aspirations lose attraction when `Important Latin-American liberals t*k ,part in' presented in Communist pd' 14 'the meeting with the exception of former Presi- meeting, that just ended in Mexico. City isb ne dent faro Cardenas. whn Approved For Release 2004/03/11 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200170026-8