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...handful of avowedly anti-Castro governments such as Guatemala and Nicaragua would welcome a successful invasion of Cuba and would not mind if the U.S. overtly supported it. A few other governments, including Venezuela and Colombia, might welcome an attempt to overthrow Castro so long as U.S. support was sufficiently well camouflaged to make official denials reasonably credible...
...stance was its reception for Adolf A. Berle, visiting chief of President Kennedy's Latin American task force. Berle, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, is respected in Latin America, got a warm welcome in Venezuela from his old friend President Romulo Betancourt, and another from Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo. But after Berle and Quadros talked for two hours, about everything including Castro, a U.S. official would only say, "Well, they didn't throw bricks at one another." Real Fright. Obviously, any step against Castro that required overt support from Latin America was in for trouble...
...moved south of the border-one led by George McGovern, 38, director of Kennedy's Food-for-Peace program, the other by Deputy Director James Symington, 33, guitar-playing, folksinger son of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's five-man team flew to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to offer grain, seed and other surplus foodstuffs as inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy's personal representative), visited food-exporting Argentina...
...Castro-Communist campaign in Argentina to raise "10,000 volunteers to fight to defend Cuba." Across the Rio Plata in Uruguay, beset by labor troubles and riots. President Benito Nardone pointed up the undercover organizing work of Castro's ambassador by calling openly for a break with Castro. Colombia and Bolivia have quietly sent home the ambassadors from Cuba, and though Mexico still pays its official respects to Castro, the government makes sure to keep its own brand of Castroite leftists in jail...
...Archbishop Luis Concha Córdoba, 69, of Bogotá, Colombia, was born to a powerful and cultured family (his father was President of Colombia from 1914 to 1918). A shy, modest man, Archbishop Concha Córdoba is recognized to be an able administrator with a forward-looking viewpoint that makes him trusted by the Liberals-Colombia's majority political party, which favors separation of church and state...