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To visitors at the White House last week, President Johnson quoted a new version of a Latin American slogan: "Constitutionalism, sí! Communism, no!" It was a slogan that exactly described the U.S. position in the Dominican Republic's civil war. Yet in a week of deepening frustration, every...
While the roots of the inter-American system go back to 1826, when Liberator Simón Bolivar called a meeting of eight nations in Panama to write a treaty for common defense and peaceful settlement of disputes among neighbors, the OAS dates its birth to the formation of the...
Today, 20 nations belong to the OAS. Through dozens of councils and committees, the OAS plays a major role in coordinating Alianza programs; it trains technicians, promotes public health, welfare and education. But its biggest job is political -acting as a peace-keeping mediator. In any dispute, at least one...
In 1955, the OAS headed off a war between Costa Rica and Nicaragua after Nicaragua tried to foment a revolution in its southern neighbor. That same year the OAS prevented a shooting match between Ecuador and Peru over a disputed strip of jungle. Not surprisingly, the Dominican Republic has been...
Where the OAS has often failed is in its attempts to deal with the more subtle, infinitely more dangerous Communist subversions of Fidel Castro. Until last year, the only decisive OAS action was its immediate, unanimous support of the U.S. during the 1962 missile crisis. Then, in November 1963, Venezuela...