Word: oases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro himself served notice in advance that nonintervention did not apply to him. The conference was a "farce," he charged on TV, called at the urging of Trujillo. Ignoring him, the delegates hammered out their proposal for ending such threats: a revival of the OAS's Inter-American Peace...
In another era, intervention to protect national interests was accepted international practice, and the U.S. (having in the Monroe Doctrine forbidden Europe from intervening in the Western Hemisphere) used the doctrine at San Juan Hill, on the Isthmus of Panama, and in several other Caribbean countries where U.S. property and...
Most of the OAS members were swayed not by treaty but by Trujillo's long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba...
Backed by Brazil, Chile and Peru, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS John Dreier proposed a conference of the 21 foreign ministers to examine the "grave situation" in the Caribbean "on a broad front." Dreier recalled that in three months the OAS had met twice before to study threats to peace...
A vote was postponed until this week, but most of the OAS ambassadors spoke out in favor of the meeting. It will probably convene in Washington within two weeks. At least, by virtue of publicity and prestige, the conference can make Caribbean warfare less respectable. At most, it can get...