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Whatever the extent of Soviet help, the Argentines seemed determined to get as much political mileage as possible out of their new overtures to the East. Last week Nicanor Costa Méndez became the first Argentine Foreign Minister to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. In a startling scene, Costa Méndez embraced the Communist leader, who had done his best to stir up trouble in Latin America. Addressing a conference of nations professing nonalignment with the major powers, Costa Méndez then roundly denounced the "aggression of Great Britain" and said...
Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez was sitting across from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig as the Organization of American States met in Washington last week for an emergency session to consider the Falklands crisis. Staring directly at Haig during a virulent, 45-minute speech, Costa Méndez charged that U.S. support for Britain was "illegal and repugnant" and that the U.S. had "turned its back" on Latin America. He warned: "The future of the inter-American relationship is under threat." As Haig sat in stony silence, most of the assembled delegates gave the Argentine diplomat...
...proposals through U.N. Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. To be sure, the hopes for a diplomatic settlement were fragile. The greatest gulf between the disputants was still caused by the central issue: the ultimate disposition of the Falklands. But Argentina's Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez optimistically declared: "We are closer to peace than we are to war." Said Sir Anthony Parsons, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N.: "I think we are making progress again." Declared Pérez de Cuéllar on Friday: "There is always a risk...
Haig's announcement may have been intended in part to move the Argentines into resuming negotiations. In any case, the U.S. actions had an immediate effect. Within minutes after the Secretary of State finished making his statement in Washington Friday morning, Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez appeared at the United Nations to declare that his country "is always willing" to comply with an April 3 U.N. Security Council resolution calling for cessation of hostilities between Britain and Argentina, for Argentine
...attention of even most trivia buffs--presents a dangerous threat to Argentina' influence in the Southern Hemisphere, a perfect opportunity for muscle flexing. Pretending to be victims of imperialism, the Argentine government ordered a reckless violation of international law, insulting Britain and all her allies. Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez managed somehow to keep a straight face when he carefully explained that his country's claims to the islands are rooted in 150-year-old territorial rights. The military junta professes to believe that Argentina's demand for be islands and the army's right to take them...