Word: oases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To find out what is going wrong with the Alliance for Progress, the OAS last November commissioned two distinguished Latin Americans-Juscelino Kubitschek, former President of Brazil, and Alberto Lleras Camargo, who had just finished his term as President of Colombia. Their separate reports last week made disheartening reading.
What Coexistence. Castro's talk of coexistence was nothing new. He has been hinting at it ever since Khrushchev left him high and dry during the October missile crisis. Yet while he talks peace, and while the joint Russian-Cuban communique in Moscow flatly regarded "any export of revolution...
Bit by bit, the story of what goes on behind the walls of Fidel Castro's political prisons has been carried out of Cuba by refugees. Sometimes the fragments have been recorded publicly; more often they have not. Two and a half years ago, the Organization of American States...
All told, the OAS commission studied 1,350 case histories. It is estimated that there are some 75,000 political prisoners (one out of every 94 Cubans) behind bars. The commission found that they have no human rights, that they are treated in a "humiliating, oppressive and despotic manner," and...
In the course of its investigation, the OAS commission sent nearly 50 messages to Castro's government requesting information, asking permission to travel to Cuba, and recommending "progressive measures in favor of human rights." It got twelve answers, charging that the testimony was malicious propaganda, and demanding that the...