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    "ocrText": "INFORMA TION\n- 7 -\nGaitan in Colombia, Betancourt in Venazuela, Haya de la Torre in Peru, Galo\nPlaza in Ecuadors, Ibañez in Chile, Peron in Argentina, Vargas in Brazil and\nGrau in Cuba, all achieved varying degrees of political power by promising\nchange. And even where some of these personalities, such as Betancourts have\ndisappeared from the political scene, they have left with the masses a recollec=\ntion of success which poses a serious and continuing threat to their more\nconservative successors in office.\n19. One of the consequences of these internal adjustments is political\ninstability which is itself enfeebling. Another is a weakening of respect\nfor property rights; agrarian and similar \"reform\" laws designed to break the\npower of the \"oligarchs\" are applied without distinction to national and\nforeign owners and with inadequate regard for compensating those whose property\nis taken. Another consequence is that revolutionary movements, which are the\nproduct of unrest, are often controlled by immature and impractical idealists,\neither real or professed, who are not only unprepared to conduct government\nbusiness efficiently but lack the disposition to combat extremists within\ntheir rmks, including communists, since they consider themselves revolutionarieso\nThe pressure on governments to produce results which are both immediate and\ntangible, not only imposes upon governments an intense preoccupation with\ndomestic problems at the expense of their international responsibilities, but\na tendency to court popular favor by sensational, irresponsible acts.\n20. At the same time that these changes of an internal character are\ntaking place, the people of Latin America are becoming increasingly aware that\n90 percent of the wealth is produced by one of the American\nUnited States-leaving 10 percent for division among the remaining 20 American\nstates with a total population greater than ours. The average per capita\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 3(D) or e\nincome\nD p. of State letter, A 532\nBy NLT. NC MARS Date 5:22:77 SEORET DECURITY INFORMATION"
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