Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real problem that faces President Kennedy. He is surrounded by a great many opinions, all of which can be useful to him. But in the final analysis, he must choose one course and stick to it. All of the failures thus far can be laid to a compromise. Cuba is the shining example. In an effort to pacify both interventionists and non-interventionists, the President settled on a compromise with the disastrous results we have all seen...
...force practices parachute jumping, calls itself the nucleus of armed support for a Cuban liberal named Aureliano Sánchez Arango. Most significant, the U.S. was pointedly withholding promised support of Manuel Ray, the young reform-minded Cuban exile with the strongest claim to organizable underground strength inside Cuba...
...Latin America, Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson was the bearer of uneasy tidings. The leaders of Latin America's democratic governments were still in a state of "mental shock" over the Cuban disaster; U.S. prestige was in sharp decline. Though everyone recognized the danger of Castro's Communist Cuba, the bearded dictator loomed so large across the Caribbean that no one was willing to join in strong, concerted action against him. The one immediate hope, reported Stevenson, was a mild plan, advanced by Colombia, for a call to Castro to renounce his ties to Soviet Russia. If he refuses...
...Recife over the university's refusal to let Che Guevara's Argentine mother, Celia. deliver a Castroite harangue, Quadros sent in the Brazilian navy and marines. Fanning out into the inflamed northeast, they raided Peasant League strongholds to round up propaganda smuggled in from Castro's Cuba, and arms. In Brazil's labor movement, once heavily Communist-infiltrated. Quadros' men are working to cut the Reds "off at the knees." The unions used to be able to get handouts from the Kubitschek government. "Not any more." says Quadros' Labor Minister Francisco de Castro Neves...
...hemisphere, Brazil can be a better ally of the U.S. as a strong and independent democracy dealing on equal terms. "The Americans tend to be overpowering," says Quadros. "I intend to treat them like a lover-an apache lover." Adds a ranking Brazilian diplomat: "We cannot accept Communism in Cuba permanently. But if we take sides too soon, we lose all influence. We will no longer be able to act effectively to achieve our main objective, which is the same as yours: to restore Cuba to the American community...