Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficially, Washington was "pleased and happy'' at the break; there was hopeful-overhopeful-talk of similar break-offs by the six remaining Latin nations that still have embassies in Havana. Castro had already made his reaction clear enough on the subject by assembling 1,000,000 (by Cuban count) people in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución. Cried Castro: "The OAS was unmasked for what it is-Yankee Ministry of Colonies and a military bloc against the peoples of Latin America...
Cutting the Ties. And at the U.N., two of Castro's Communist friends, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, offered a resolution appealing for an end to U.S. "interference in the internal affairs" of Cuba. "Uncle Sam,'' cried the Cuban delegate, "took his trip to Punta del Este carrying a bag of gold in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other." Apparently, the Reds hoped to draw anti-U.S. support from the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Afro-Asians seemed to regard it all as an inter-American quarrel. Brazil, speaking as a member...
...heart of the Brazilian argument for condemning but not expelling Castro was legalistic but not uninteresting. The OAS is intrinsically a league of governments committed to representative democracy, said the Brazilian delegate, and "any American state voluntarily departing from such a system breaks its ties of solidarity with the other American states." In other words, having volunteered out, Cuba did not have to be kicked...
...Which declared Castro outside the Organization of American States...
...Review argued that Welch, far from repenting such absurdities as his 1958 attack on Eisenhower as a Com-symp, is as loose a talker as ever. To Welch, for instance, the Bay of Pigs was a theatrical performance jointly sponsored by Castro and "his friends in the U.S. Government" in order to strengthen the Communist hold on Cuba. Not only the U.S. State Department but also the Central Intelligence Agency is Communist-riddled...