Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of 14* to 1 (Cuba) with six abstentions, the resolution won the necessary two-thirds majority, and Fidel Castro's Cuba was declared an outlaw in the hemisphere. After ten days of negotiation, the Foreign Ministers Conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay, had come full circle. The 14 who originally voted to discuss the Cuban problem were the same 14 that agreed to exclude Cuba. The six who abstained were the same six who all along urged the OAS to go slow. They included the "big three"-Brazil, Argentina and Mexico-who between them hold two-thirds...
Trying to persuade the hard-line anti-Castro nations to tone down their demands in the interests of unanimity, Rusk worked for hours in his suite at the San Rafael Hotel, in a Cantegril Country Club bungalow, over chilled coffee at the Bife de Oro restaurant-patiently listening, explaining, mediating...
...importance of Canada's trade with Fidel Castro's Cuba is not so much the money as the principle of the thing-and Canada and the U.S. incline to differ sharply on the principles at stake. When the U.S. first embargoed trade with Cuba in 1960, in retaliation for Castro's seizure of U.S. property, Canada decided that Washington's quarrel was none of its own. Canada has steadfastly declined even to join the Organization of American States. Going it alone, Canada's exports to Castro rose from $13 million to $24.5 million last year...
...House of Commons, Diefenbaker was asked for his reaction to Secretary of State Dean Rusk's hope that other countries would join the OAS in its quarantine of Castro. Enunciating the principle on which Canada not only trades with Cuba but last year concluded a whopping $425.6 million grain deal with Red China, Diefenbaker replied coldly: "The decision as to the course Canada shall take should be made by Canada on the basis of policies which she believes are appropriate to Canada...
Presumably, the Prime Minister was irked by a Rusk comment last week on Canadian-Cuban trade. Asked if the U.S. felt that Castro is using dollars earned from Canada to promote subversion in Latin America, and whether the U.S. plans to ask Canada to cut them off, Rusk replied: "That is something we will take up." Diefenbaker's view is that there is nothing to take up. Noting that Canada's 1961 exports to Cuba (mostly farm products) were five times greater than its imports, Diefenbaker tartly observed that rather than provide Castro with dollars, Canada...