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The United States should not establish formal diplomatic relations with Cuba, nor realign its trade policy, nor support Cuba's re-entry into the OAS until Cuba shows its willingness to leave its neighbors alone and stop its admitted export of revolution. We cannot support tyranny either of the left...
LATIN AMERICA A Chance to Create The Organization of American States has long been a deeply troubled and largely ineffective body. At no time were its problems more visible than when the OAS's 22 member nations set out last November to pick a new secretary-general to replace...
The trouble began when U.S. Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz openly announced that the U.S. supported Plaza, confident that Plaza had the votes wrapped up in the OAS Council. Seeing a good issue, Panama's Ambassador Eduardo Ritter Aislan immediately lashed out at Yanqui pressure, rallied support for his own...
When he assumes his post in May, Plaza will face many other problems besides petty politics. Under Mora's amiably inefficient regime, the OAS's ponderous, bureaucracy has grown from 300 people to 1,400, corruption is spreading at lower levels and a general lassitude has settled over...
The son of a two-time President of Ecuador, Plaza himself served as his country's President from 1948 to 1952, becoming Ecuador's first chief of state in modern history to keep the army out of the palace. He also won a wide reputation as a shrewd...