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Berlin was the worst problem confronting the President of the U.S.; it was by no means the only one. Following Johnson into the White House came Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, back in the U.S. from the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este. The crucial importance of that conference...
When Che heard that Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Beltran was trying to put through a clause in the Declaration of Punta del Este that would clearly exclude the Cuban dictatorship from the alliance, Che dropped around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in...
No Dramatics. Che's adroit politicking provided the drama of the conference, but as the U.S. Treasury's Dillon clearly saw, the real business was not dramatics, and the real success was not yet to be measured. The present task was merely to get under way. The U.S...
The words of the Declaration of Punta del Este were certainly a start. Taking it as axiomatic that "this alliance is founded on the principle that free men working through the institutions of representative democracy can best satisfy man's desires.'' the declaration listed as its goal...
At the end of the conference, one observer compared the illiterate, hungry people of Latin America to fish caught beneath the ice, and the Punta del Este delegates to skaters above. To the fish, the skaters and their complicated figures mean nothing; the only thing that counts to them is...