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Domination & Disaster. Concern about Communist penetration spread across the Americas. The Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.. Antonio Carrillo Flores, explained that his nation's recently expressed sympathy for the ideals of the Cuban revolution does not mean approval of "the procedure or methods she is employing." Venezuelan President...
In punishing Fidel Castro by canceling the rest of Cuba's 1960 U.S. sugar quota, the U.S. at first seemed in the embarrassing position of giving a windfall to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Under the law, Cuba's canceled quota was to be split among other...
Attempted Murder. U.S. policy was to aim for eventual collective action by the 21-member Organization of American States. Castro had plainly violated the Caracas Declaration of 1954 barring Communist domination of any hemisphere nation. But Latin American politicos tacitly made two demands in return for their support. One was...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has done many harsh acts and some stupid ones in his 30 years in power. But perhaps none has ever matched the deed he was accused of last week. The Organization of American States listened to detailed evidence that Trujillo personally plotted last month'...
Who had tried to kill Betancourt? Venezuelan intelligence agents had earlier warned the President that cronies of ousted Dictator Pérez Jiménez had hired four ex-Nazi military engineers in Spain to do the job. Last week, after the blast, Betancourt also implicated an old enemy: Dominican...