Word: oases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In letter No. 719 to the Organization of American States last week, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai formally announced to Latin America that the Alliance for Progress was now in business. With assurance of a $600 million starter from Congress, the U.S. has called a meeting of the OAS Inter...
Recognizing that the Rio Pact and the OAS Charter, with their focus on "armed attack" and "aggression," could not cope with Communist subversion in Latin America, an American conference in Caracas in 1954, under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, voted to broaden the concept of...
One by one, the ambassadors were called in to discuss the possibility of joint action by the Organization of American States. Said one Latin American ambassador: "Some sort of joint intervention appears to be inevitable. It's a very serious thing." Ambassadors are not governments; yet even Brazil'...
There was less agreement on how far to go. Most Latin American governments still oppose direct military intervention by the U.S., and it is doubtful whether the U.S. would be satisfied with a simple OAS vote to condemn Castro by name (which it has not yet done). The U.S. last...
Popular support of Castro has been manifesting itself all over Latin America in the last few months. In El Salvador, large groups of students gathered before the U.S. embassy shouting, "Cuba si, Yanqui no." Last August 29, thousands of Venezuelans, demonstrating against the OAS decision, forced their government to give...