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Before long, impressive, two-page ads stressing Cuba's charm and conviviality ("If Cuba could be said to have one predominant art it would have to be the art of living") were appearing in U.S. newspapers and magazines. But Harris began to doubt his own copy when Ernesto (Che) Guevara became Economics Minister of Cuba and early in 1960 cut off Harris' monthly checks. Harris flew to Havana, saw Castro, and "had to listen to 20 minutes of demagoguery." He tried again, waited 82 hours in Guevara's office. Guevara just laughed in Harris' face...
...spokesman was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. While Cuba's spinach-bearded economic commissar, Che Guevara, glowered in his chair, Dillon opened the conference with the most gen erous offer of help in U.S. history. In a flat, toneless voice that failed to hide the tre mendous promise of his words, Dillon vowed that the U.S. would take the lead in securing $20 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years to raise Latin America's living standards. "We welcome the revolution of rising expectations" he said, "and we intend to transform it into a revolution...
With the broad outline, the delegates found little to bicker about. The loudest bickering came from Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing...
...Some confusion in Castro's own ranks was created by the defection of the Cuban consuls general in Buenos Aires and Montevideo shortly before Che arrived. They resigned and asked for political asylum in Argentina...
...Che's presence at the meeting might well boost one U.S. goal-to convince Latin America's conservatives that the time has come for real social and eco nomic reform. Open opposition to the aims of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress is scarce, but wealthy landowners in many Latin countries assume that talk of reform must apply to someone else. In Guatemala, opposition by coffee growers and businessmen has managed to kill Conservative President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes' attempts to initiate a much-needed income tax. In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor...