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Significant Intelligence; (Pastor)
Ecuador: Embassy Quito's
assessment indicate that plotting to eliminate* Roldos -as a
potential candidate continues. The Embassy indicates that
their soundings have confirmed the existence of a plot to
establish sufficient fraud in the first round voting tortry
to convince Poveda to cancel the,follow-up elections. At
the same time, however, they have encountered enough doubt
and dissent to possibly undermine tfhe scheme. The decisive
moment may be reached during the week of September 4 when
the Guayas province results are scheduled for review. (S XGDS-2)

Mexico: Scretary Schlesinger briefed Ambassador Margain on
progress of US natural gas legislation and our desire to
resume negoitations with the Mexicans. Schlesinger emphasized
that we understand the importance of the price to Mexico and
that there are various ways to meet Mexican political interests
without disrupting our own. Margain was impressed and
promised to raise the issue with Lopez Portillo during his
consultations in Mexico. (C)

Haiti: The Haitian Foreign Ministry informed our Embassy that
they will not seek the return of Lucien Rigaud and had been
looking for a way to get rid of the problem posed by his
presence in the Mexican Embassy. (C)

OAS; A special OAS session called to deal with human rights
commission issues was diverted to a discussion of commodity
problems and concern over US protectionism. Sugar and
copper were the concerns with-Peru, Chile-/- and-Jamaica ■ ■ ■■
speaking out forecefully. Jamaica^characterized consultations
with the US in all forums, including the OAS, as an "exercise
in futility." (U)

Ecuador: Press reports indicate that Natural Resources
Minister Semblantes announced that GOE favors an oil price
hike of no more than 5%. The Embassy comments that while
Ecuador usually follows Venezuela's lead, it will diverge
in its own interest and usually follows suit-;-when ari- OPEC
consensus develops. (LOU)

Mexico and Nicaragua: Our charge^briefed Foreign Minister
Roel on the Nicaraguan situation. Roel indicated that the
only long term solution was the removal of Somoza'and held
forth on the need for the US to stop supporting Somoza.
Roel expressed interest in receiving further information
on the Nicaraguan situation. (S XGDS 1)

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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/28 : NLC-10-14-5-13-6