Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venezuela, for example, land-reform is being successfully carried on by President Betancourt on a different basis than the one used by Castro. In this manner, Betancourt is showing Latin America that there is an effective alternative to communist revolution...
...question of U.S. intervention, which Fidel Castro has of course seized upon, is not really very significant. The fact is that the legal government of the Dominican Republic requested a U.S. show of support, and to have refused, particularly after our declaration opposing the re-establishment of the Trujillo dynasty, would have opened the door to even more violence and bloodshed than was in evidence in the Dominicans' joyful, if tumultuous, farewell to the Trujillos...
...what to do about him? The U.S. has long ceased to talk about overthrowing him. Notions of staging another invasion by Cuban exiles have been shelved" supplies promised the shattered anti-Castro underground inside Cuba have been deliberately withheld, and exiled Underground Leader Manuel Ray has taken an economic development job in Puerto Rico. The U.S. now pins its hopes on a Colombian plan to ostracize and quarantine Castro through joint action of the 21 nation Organization of American States. Under the Colombian plan, an OAS convened conference of hemisphere foreign ministers would be held to "consider threats...
...plan is running into opposition. For a variety of reasons-old Latin fears of Yankee Big Stick intervention, concern over pro-Castro elements at home, an obvious but unconfessed desire to use the example of Cuba as a lever to pry more aid out of Washington-the big ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil and Chile), as well as Ecuador and Mexico, oppose any OAS moves against Castro...
...while, Kennedy is trying to convince Latin Americans that his Alliance for Progress is a workable alternative to Castro's Communist dictatorship. Last week he disclosed that he may make his first visit to Latin America soon, probably a journey to two reform-prone nations, Colombia and Venezuela...