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A total of 57 scholars, including Nobel laureates Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor; Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics; Simon S. Kuznets, retired Baker Professor of Economics; and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, addressed their message to the Organization of American States' (OAS) Human Rights Commission.
Diktat Diplomacy. To many Latin Americans, the slap at Venezuela and Ecuador smacked of old-style U.S. diplomacy by diktat-no consultation, no negotiation. Twenty of the 24 members of the Organization of American States blasted the trade act as "discriminatory and coercive." Last week Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes...
In diplomacy, as in horse racing, sure things sometimes end up as also-rans. Before the start of last week's meeting in Quito of foreign ministers representing the Organization of American States, several Latin American diplomats were confidently passing the word that the OAS would vote to end...
The vote may have hurt the U.S. and the OAS more than Cuba. Earlier, there had been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa...
Brazil, which is ideologically sympathetic to the Chilean and Uruguayan military-backed governments, nevertheless sees that there is no point in trying to block Cuba without U.S. help. Moreover, two of Castro's outspoken advocates in the OAS are looking more and more formidable. They are Mexico, with newly...