Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame Castro in the least for the radical reforms his government has attempted," Boersner said. "We blame him for taking power from the people who made the revolution and reserving it to a bureaucratic clique that runs the country from above...
Boersner said that the United States should assume a pragmatic policy toward Havana "capable of adapting to changing circumstances. Castro should be closely watched for Titoist tendencies." If Cuba turned toward a neutralist position, the United States, Boersner felt, should reopen diplomatic relations with the island. But he cautioned that at present Castro was showing "Stalinist" rather than "Titoist" deviations...
...Boersner noted that until the end of 1960, Venezuela favored a policy "of going easy on Cuba." When the subversive activities of Fidelistas within Venezuela became obvious early in 1961, Venezuela began to take a much tougher line within the Organization of American States. Its good relations with the Castro government deteriorated rapidly, rupturing toward...
...still don't fully understand the Cuban phenomenon," Boersner said. "The Castro regime is the only revolutionary government in the world which has voluntarily submitted to the discipline of the Communist bloc...
...pointed out that Venezuela's President Betancourt had suggested at the time of Castro's massive expropriations of United States property that the other Latin American countries raise the funds to pay for the expropriated property...