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While Fidel Castro continues to claim that he is not exporting Communist revolution to the rest of Latin America-and some people who should know better seem to believe him—the incident in Puerto Maldonado pointed up the dangerous truth. Wrote the editor of Lima's La Prensa, former Premier Pedro Beltran: "Peru, and every American country including the U.S., will remain subject to grave danger as long as Cuba is permitted to operate as a center of ideological, military and economic subversion for Communism."