Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That this incompatibility excludes the present government of Cuba from participation in the inter-American system...
...vote of 14* to 1 (Cuba) with six abstentions, the resolution won the necessary two-thirds majority, and Fidel Castro's Cuba was declared an outlaw in the hemisphere. After ten days of negotiation, the Foreign Ministers Conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay, had come full circle. The 14 who originally voted to discuss the Cuban problem were the same 14 that agreed to exclude Cuba. The six who abstained were the same six who all along urged the OAS to go slow. They included the "big three"-Brazil, Argentina and Mexico-who between them hold two-thirds...
Nobody changed sides. But the U.S. could take considerable comfort in the fact that every one of Cuba's 20 neighbors saw-and in their speeches condemned-the dangerous presence of a Communist dictatorship on their door steps. Of the six abstentions in the formal vote on expulsion, Mexico balked by declaring that under inter-American treaties, only "moral" condemnation was legal. Brazil, torn by economic and political chaos since Jánio Quadros' renunciation of the presidency last August, was clearly afraid that a yes vote would further divide its people. Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile...
...talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with the U.S. and the smaller countries...
...Springboard. The result was no clear-cut victory for the U.S.; but it was certainly a defeat for Cuba. If only 14 nations voted to exclude Cuba from the inter-American system, there were 20 votes in favor of Cuba's immediate exclusion from the Inter-American Defense Board, and 16 votes not only to suspend arms trade with Cuba but to instruct the OAS Council to "study the feasibility and desirability of extending the suspension" to other items. At week's end, using the resolution as a springboard, the U.S. let it be known that...