Unending Struggle, The Part 3 of 3

The Unending Struggle Part 3 of 3 US official leaves village meeting & into car w/ logo of Inter-American Alliance for Progress - villagers wave him off. Slums on river at Guiyaquil - kids playing & collecting water - squalid conditions - VO “in the bitterness of discontent, such doctrines as Communism can take root and flourish” - graffiti on wall inc. hammer & sickle emblem & ‘Viva Cuba’. US Consul Robert E. White future US Ambassador to Paraguay & El Salvador talks to slum community leaders - asking for new school. Baby girl w/ mother through slum. 03:26:12 Reception at Quito home of Earl Lubenski, chief of US Embassy’s political section, for group of young Ecuadorian politicians - CU Lubenski in informal discussion w/ guests as wife serves drinks. Pan across Quito rooftops. Montage US diplomats shown in the film at work across Ecuador talking to the people - VO quoting Lyndon Johnson “this nation can never again retreat from world responsibility - we will be involved with the world for the rest of our history...the struggle is not merely long, the struggle is unending”. Anti-Communism. US Foreign Policy. Poverty. Third World Aid. South America. 1960s.