MOSCOW REACHES ACCORD WITH BOGOTA
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia were restored January 19 after several months of very peculiar secret negotiations.
The preliminaries were kept so confidential that even the subject of the press conference announcing the move was not disclosed in advance. While diplomatic relations are not wrong, the secret diplomacy involved raises doubts about what the Soviet bureaucrats may have agreed to in possible under-the-table clauses.
Only last summer the Latin American
Solidarity Organization objected to "so-
cialist" countries giving aid to oligar-
chic regimes that are fighting guerrillas.
This resolution was mainly provoked by the
visit of a Soviet mission to Colombia to
discuss technical aid to that oligarchy.
Colombian President Lleras Restrepo
recently stated that the “only obstacle"
to establishing relations with "socialist"
countries would be "their support of sub-
versive movements that seek to change our
institutions."
NEW WAVE OF REPRESSION IN PERU
(The following is a translation of a letter sent from Lima by the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights.]
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A new wave of