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Next day, the mood changed. A grim, unsmiling Castro stood on a platform, joined by Raúl, President Osvaldo Dorticós and Minister of Industries Che Guevara. Castro gave the enthusiastic crowd of 100,000 a brief wave, unstrapped his ever-present .45 automatic, and stood through the...
Last week, the OAS issued precisely that warning. By a vote of 15 to 4 (Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia voting against), the foreign ministers approved mandatory diplomatic and economic sanctions against Communist Cuba and passed a crucial resolution defining any future Castro subversion as outright "aggression." Henceforth, under the...
Of them all, Mexico was the most adamant in its stand against sanctions and the most determined to vote against -even when 5,000 Cuban exiles staged a march down Washington's Constitution Avenue, shouting, chanting and waving placards ("OAS! Alert! Alert!"
"Even on the Moon." When to sever relations, and how to police the trade embargo, were left up to each individual nation. It may be months before the four get around to giving Castro's diplomats their walking papers. Chile certainly will do nothing before the September elections; the...
The bearded revolutionary obviously recognizes that fact, and all through the OAS meetings he did his best to soften the blow. For weeks a felicitous Fidel has been humming a sweet reconciliation tune to the U.S. Last week his violent little brother Raúl, boss of Cuba's...