Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basic U.S. policy in the Dominican Republic is simple. It is to prevent a Castro-style takeover in the Caribbean. Its ultimate aim is to set up a representative, constitutional government excluding extremists, from Trujilloists on the right to Reds on the left...
...PIGS. This fiasco of the new Kennedy Administration in April 1961 is blamed in retrospect by State Department officials on a storm of "angry world opinion" that scared off the U.S. Government from carrying through the overthrow of Castro it had secretly planned. Yet some of the U.S.'s staunchest allies were (unofficially) more appalled by the U.S.'s display of faint heart...
...brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro regime-not primarily because of world opinion but because of his calculation of the risks...
...President Johnson has taken the deliberate risk of touching Latin American feelings on their most sensitive spot by recalling the days when Theodore Roosevelt policed the Caribbean with marines, it is presumably because American feelings too have been touched on their most sensitive spot - the prospect of another Castro-like regime being established in an other Caribbean island...
Where the OAS has often failed is in its attempts to deal with the more subtle, infinitely more dangerous Communist subversions of Fidel Castro. Until last year, the only decisive OAS action was its immediate, unanimous support of the U.S. during the 1962 missile crisis. Then, in November 1963, Venezuela discovered a Castro arms cache on its northern coast, and the OAS finally voted for a break with Castro. At that it took eight months to agree-and Mexico still ignores the ruling...