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...Pact, which provides that "an armed attack by any State against any American State shall be considered an attack against all the American States." The principle of inter-American collective security against aggression was reaffirmed in the charter of the Organization of American States, drawn up at Bogota...
...plainly opposed to a Communist-supplied base 90 miles from U.S. shores, was obviously going to come in for a storm of leftist agitation and a good deal of Latin American criticism, if its part in the exiles' activities became too obvious. The U.S. is heavily pledged (Bogota, 1948) not to help overthrow any hemisphere regime. Furthermore, even Cubans despairing of Castro's Communist ties might be patriotically moved to side with Castro if the invaders seemed mere U.S. mercenaries. The U.S. position is that of coach and well-wisher cheering from the sidelines but forbidden...
...Castro Cubans, who knew the accuracy of the indictment, paid it the tribute of calling it "trash cunningly dreamed up by eggheads"; but unfortunately, it seemed to miss the rest of the hemisphere almost completely. The text went unpublished in Bogota and Caracas, drew not a single editorial in Lima, Rio or Buenos Aires...
...Emphasizing that distribution of the money would depend on "the readiness of each government to make the institutional improvements-which promise lasting social progress," Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate the $500 million it authorized at President Eisenhower's request last year, when the hemisphere foreign ministers met at Bogota to discuss social progress. The Inter-American Development Bank, in which the U.S. has 40% of the voting power, would get $394 million for soft loans, said Kennedy; $100 million would go to the U.S.'s International Cooperation Administration; the final $6,000,000 would be turned over...
...average agricultural wage is 60? a day, and 20,000 are unemployed in the capital alone. As much as any other country in the hemisphere, El Salvador is in need of the social reforms proposed by the U.S. to the inter-American development conference in Bogota a fortnight...