Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hearings recently conducted by the Senate Internal Security Committee provide the principal evidence on which Wieland's accusers base their views. During these hearings Ambassadors Pawley to Brazil, Earl E. T. Smith to Cuba and Robert C. Hill to Mexico called Wieland "gullible" and "most unreliable" in his approach to Cuba. These vague character judgments would have been more convincing, had the three ambassadors been less enthusiastic supporters of Latin American dictators...
Aside from Cuba's predictable rage, the angriest reaction to the decisions taken at Punta del Este last week came not from the left but from the right. Returning home from the 21-nation conference at the Uruguayan seaside resort, the foreign ministers of the nations that had been willing to talk but not vote against Castro heard from some bitterly disappointed elements of their press and public...
...private meeting. Now the three service chiefs, Army Secretary Brigadier General Rosendo M. Fraga, the navy's Rear Admiral Gaston C. Clement and the air force's Brigadier General Jorge Rojas Silveyra, accused Frondizi of "reneging" on his promise to take a firm stand against Cuba. They demanded that he fire his Foreign Minister and break diplomatic relations with Cuba forthwith...
Frondizi has survived 34 full-scale crises in his 3½ years in office, and seems to have an instinctive sense of how much ballast to throw overboard in order to stay afloat. He conspicuously ordered home his Ambassador to Cuba, and apparently that was enough. But as a large section of Buenos Aires' press continued to deplore Argentina's performance at Punta del Este ("Lamentable," "Deplorable," "We are ashamed"), the military chiefs stood firm. Eventually, Frondizi gave in, or seemed to. In a communiqué he insisted that Argentina was not "breaking solidarity," that it fully agreed...
...That the present government of Cuba, which has officially identified itself as Marxist-Leninist, is incompatible with the principles and objectives of the inter-American system...