Word: frondizi
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...longer, with interruptions for autographs-from him, not from me." Che surprisingly agreed. He told an interviewer that it was a "short, courteous and cold meeting, and was not important." But Che used the Goodwin talks as a wedge to wangle himself a secret appointment with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi. He then flew off to make the same coexistence offer in Buenos Aires...
...news of the private meeting. Argentina's anti-Castro armed forces went up like land mines. The three service secretaries threatened to resign. Frondizi lamely explained that if Kennedy's man Goodwin could talk to Guevara, then he, as President of Argentina, could see him, too, couldn't he? Over TV, he emphasized that his government was Christian, democratic, and committed to the West. Two nights later, he was on TV again saying that Castro "employs procedures which we Argentines reject categorically...
...Where President Arturo Frondizi in familiar style, last week summarily put down a vest-pocket revolt of 150 ultranationalists without firing a shot, thus surviving his 3Oth crisis in 39 months in office...
...sometimes concerted but action rarely is, a great desire to do something arose. In Caracas wellborn ladies, of the kind who usually do not venture out by themselves, were hailing passing cars with collection cans and bold demands to "stop to help a dying man." Argentine President Arturo Frondizi told a press conference: "I don't believe people can be traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil...
...been immediate, strong and favorable. For the first time since the Cuban invasion, the Mexican government let it be known that it was "100% in accord with Kennedy." Chile's conservative President Jorge Alessandri was openly enthusiastic about the promised "thoroughgoing social reform," and Argentina's Arturo Frondizi said that "there can be no social development without economic development." All these were promising signs for Latin America's long-term good, but if the U.S. expected any immediate dividends from its diplomatic attempts to retrieve the Cuban disaster, it got a sharp setback. For weeks Washington...