Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When sober, Arosemena pushed through a much-needed austerity program, reversed the drain on foreign exchange, and managed to increase Ecuador's low standard of living a bit. Under pressure from the military, he broke diplomatic relations with Castro's Cuba. His regime seemed to satisfy most people-except for the drinking. But as his drinking got worse, the Conservative opposition in Congress twice sought to have him impeached. Lacking the votes, it asked the military leaders to intervene. At first the army refused. Arosemena denounced his critics as "Creole Calvinists." He was a human being, he said...
...American students now touring Cuba at the expense of the Cuban government will, in all likelihood, be punished when they return. The Administration, if it prosecutes them, will both make itself look silly and perform a priceless propaganda service to the Castro regime...
...course) that merely lumped together these diametrically opposed opinions. Then last fall, the Red Chinese invasion of India only served to justify Khrushchev's view that Mao was a reckless fanatic, and Moscow ostentatiously failed to back Peking. As for Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, the maneuver confirmed Mao's worst fears about vacillating Kremlin leadership, leaning first to "adventurism," then to "capitulationism." Thundered Peking: "It is 100% appeasement. A Munich pure and simple. Imperialism is only a paper tiger." To which Khrushchev replied: "The paper tiger has nuclear teeth. Only a madman would...
During last October's missile crisis, every Latin American nation lined up solidly behind the U.S. in demanding the immediate removal of Russian rockets from Cuba. Now that the missiles are no longer in evidence and Castro is singing a coexistence tune, there is no solidarity in Latin America on what to do about his Communist regime. Last week the OAS was asked to approve a series of moves designed to minimize Castro's infiltration and subversion around the hemisphere. Among the recommendations was a formal ban on all travel to and from Cuba. Only 14 nations voted...
...face of so much opposition, the U.S. last week withdrew a second measure against Castro that it had planned to put before the OAS: a call for an OAS economic embargo on Cuba, restricting all trade and commercial relations. The trade is small in any event -only about $ 1 3 million last year between Castro and the rest of Latin America -and to press ahead now on a ban might cause more divisiveness within the OAS than trouble for Castro...