Letter from Uruguay

The international Union of Young Christian Democrats, founded in Caracas, Venezuela in 1962, held its Third World Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay in May 1969, leaving many doubts as to whether there would ever be a fourth Congress.

Europeans were cast as scapegoats with the Germans getting the first blast. They had hardly handed over their considerable financial contribution when the attacks on them began: slaves of the Yankees, lackeys of the imperialists, etc. Peruvian delegate Rafael Roncagliolo, president of JUDCA (Juventud Demócrata Cristiana de America Latina) , was the first to make it clear that only the very innocent still believed in unity, and he asked whether it wouldn’t be better to break with the Europeans once and for all. Only the Venezuelans tried, unsucessfully, to keep the Congress on a middle course.

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The international Union of Young Christian Democrats, founded in Caracas, Venezuela in 1962, held its Third World Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay in May 1969, leaving many doubts as to whether there would ever be a fourth Congress.

Europeans were cast as scapegoats with the Germans getting the first blast. They had hardly handed over their considerable financial contribution when the attacks on them began: slaves of the Yankees, lackeys of the imperialists, etc. Peruvian delegate Rafael Roncagliolo, president of JUDCA (Juventud Demócrata Cristiana de America Latina) , was the first to make it clear that only the very innocent still believed in unity, and he asked whether it wouldn’t be better to break with the Europeans once and for all. Only the Venezuelans tried, unsucessfully, to keep the Congress on a middle course.