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...help its Latin American neighbors with a $1.1 billion, ten-year loan program, was underlined last week by the sudden resignation of Brazil's President Jánio Quadros in a crisis that began over Quadros' too enthusiastic welcome for Cuba's visiting emissary, Communist-lining Che Guevara (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Delegates to the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este fell silent as bearded Che Guevara, the Kremlin's best friend in Cuba, stood up to deliver his final pitch. "Cuba's delegation has asked again and again and never has received an answer whether Cuba has the right to participate in the Alliance for Progress," said Che smoothly. "Cuba's socioeconomic system may be different from the rest of the nations of this continent, but Cuba nevertheless is part of the whole. The first mark of coexistence is the peaceful recognition of the system...
Misunderstood Cousin. For 13 days, Che had been wheeling, dealing, and stealing the scene at Punta del Este without provoking a U.S. reply. Only too well aware that support is being organized throughout the hemisphere to ostracize Castro's Communist dictatorship, Che set out to show that Cuba is still a member of the hemispheric family. He proved himself an able tactician, here offering a "helpful" resolution, there playing the misunderstood cousin, everywhere extending well-mannered coexistence. Nuzzling up to Brazilian Delegate Clemente Mariani, Che was well rewarded by a Mariani public statement gushing over "how encouraging...
...When Che heard that Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Beltran was trying to put through a clause in the Declaration of Punta del Este that would clearly exclude the Cuban dictatorship from the alliance, Che dropped around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in, then withdrew looking hurt. In the end, at Brazil's insistence, Beltran's proposals were watered down to a mere stated preference for representative democracy. It was Che himself who then placed Cuba squarely outside the hemisphere alliance of the other 20 nations by refusing to sign...
...Dramatics. Che's adroit politicking provided the drama of the conference, but as the U.S. Treasury's Dillon clearly saw, the real business was not dramatics, and the real success was not yet to be measured. The present task was merely to get under way. The U.S. objective at Punta del Este was to offer Latin America, tormented by its hunger for food, learning, health and work, a working alternative to Castro's "socialism," and it hoped to encourage Latin Americans themselves to prove that democracy can provide swift enough economic and political progress...