Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutting the Line. Kennedy expected to praise his presidential peers for such efforts and make a few suggestions for further progress. But by far the most serious talks would revolve around ways to check the subversive activities of Communist Cuba. The specific U.S. aim-to be pushed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin and Alliance for Progress Coordinator Teodoro Moscoso-is to cut the travel line to Cuba. At present, almost any Latin American can travel to Mexico on a regular passport, pick up special papers there to fly to Havana, then...
...problem of Cuba-spawned subversion is. of course, one for all of Latin America. Although Mexico seems unconcerned, responsible leaders in many 6f the other nations realize that the Soviet presence in Cuba is a bigger threat to them than to the U.S. Their growing willingness to do something about it is. from the U.S. viewpoint, one of many encouraging signs in Latin America. The trend is such that one overenthusiastic State Department official last week crowed: "I defy anyone to find any year in the last 150 when so much progress has taken place in Latin America...
Every hope for continued progress, however, runs smack into the hard fact of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev's thrust into that island turned Fidel Castro from a hero to a puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...
...Brazil will uphold its inter-American and Western alliances," promised Foreign Minister Dantas. But at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from the OAS. His performance so outraged conservatives at home that they blocked Goulart's attempt to make Dantas his Prime Minister. Goulart waited until last January, then made him Finance Minister...
Think of the Loss. As the flight wore on, the conversation got around to Cuba. "One shouldn't trust Castro too far," remarked one passenger. "At some point he might double-cross us. After all we've done, what do we get? In his last speech, when he referred to countries that aided Cuba, he mentioned the Soviet Union last, with China way ahead. How do you like that...