1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America
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The First Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America was in Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
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, June 1-12 1929. 38 delegates, representing Argentina, Brazil
Brazil
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, Bolivia
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, El Salvador
El Salvador
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, Guatemala
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, Cuba
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, Colombia
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, Ecuador
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, Mexico
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, Panama
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, Paraguay
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, Peru
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, Uruguay
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 and Venezuela
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, took part in the meeting. The only established communist party in the region that did not participate was the Communist Party of Chile
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, which at time suffered a period of harsh repression under the Ibáñez
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
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 government.

The conferenced agreed on an analysis of the Latin American political development, considering that the revolution in Latin America ought to be anti-imperialist
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, agrarian and democratic. The conference also committed itself to an accord of solidarity with the Soviet Union
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