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# Latin Youth Group in Chile## Organized by a Cuban RedBy DON BOHNING'Of Our Lalin America StallA small, but significant Communist-d ominated, Cuban-inspired Latin youth group convenes Monday in Santiago, Chile.About 400 representatives of Latin American youth organizations, for the most part Communist oriented, are expected to attend the second Latin American Youth Con- gress.It has an interesting anatomy. And whether by design or accident, both its timing and locale have polit ical significanceChile is one of five Latin countries which still maintains diplomatic rela... tions with Cuba. It also is considered the one most like- ly to vote itself Communist.Presidential elections will be held in September, a lead Ing contender is Salvador Allende, candidate of the Communist controlled Popu- lar Action Front (FRAP). Allende lost by 35,000 votes, In 1958 to outgoing president Jorge Alessandri.A provincial election to name a national deputy will be held next week, a day after the Youth Congress closes. Outcome of the elec- tion may provide an indica- tion of which way the coun- try will go in September.Principal organizer of the Youth Congress is a 35-10-40 year old Cuban Communist named Joaquin Mas Martinez. A U.S. official de- scribes him as "one of the braintest" of the Castro followers.Mas stepped in last fall, when the Congress, originally scheduled for July of 1963, faltered Cuban exile groups claim he gets his Instructions for the Congress directly from Moscow.Mas, a former president of the School of Social Science at the University of Havana 'and now vice president of the University Student Federa- tion, arrived in Chile in September.No quickly organised the International Preparation Conunittes for the Congress National preparation groups began to sprout up in other Latin countries at the same time.Chilean authorities ordered him expelled several times as a "Toreign agent" Each Umo Communist and Socialist party officials intervened in his behalf.Mas left Chile Nov. 20 for Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela where he conferred with other Communist leaders, then went on to Prague and Moscow.Ho returned to Santingo Dec. 26. He was met at theNews AnalysisA January, 1963, preparatory meeting for the Second Congress nearly fiz zled when the Cuban delega- tion was detained in Mexico on its way to Santiago. The Panamanian representative flew froin Santiago to Mexico to confer with the Cubans, then returned to Chile and the meeting resumed. The July date was set, an agenda agreed on and the theme "Fight of the Young for Peace" was adopted.In March, however, another "International": preparation meeting was held in Cuba, attended only by Cuban youth representatives. Theme for the Congress was changed to read "For the Liberation of Latin America" and it took on a more "anti- imperialist" tone.Nothing more was heard until mid-summer with little Interest apparently being generated among Latin youth groups. The Congress was re- scheduled for August and again didn't take placo..country. This time Chilean Interior minister Dr. Sotero del Rio Intervened and Mas come back."But for Mas, the Congress may not have come off.It is an outgrowth of the first Lation American Youth Congress held in Cuba In 1960. It was there the "Cuba SI, Yankee no" theme was'To salvage lost prestige, It was announced in late August the Congress would be held inSantiago "iz consideration of numerous zetitions."Since its inception, Cuban exile organizations in Miami have waged a heated propaganda campaign against the Congress.A letter from a top Soviet youth official to Aldo Alvarez, leader of the Cuban, National Preparation tion Committee for the Congress, was reproduced and circulat- ed by the exiles. In it, specific instructions for or- ganizing the Congress are outlined.Exile groups have promised to send representatives to Santiago when the Congress convenes to "denounce the Communist effort to brainwash the youth of Latin America."MIAMI HERALD6 March 1964![illegible scribbles]