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During last October's missile crisis, every Latin American nation lined up solidly behind the U.S. in demanding the immediate removal of Russian rockets from Cuba. Now that the missiles are no longer in evidence and Castro is singing a coexistence tune, there is no solidarity in Latin America...
As an expression of Latin American sentiment, the vote was a bitter disappointment to the U.S. While Latins are well aware of Castro's troublemaking (Mexico, for example, takes mug shots of every Cubana Airlines passenger), many nations are still reluctant to go on record in favor of anything...
To find out what is going wrong with the Alliance for Progress, the OAS last November commissioned two distinguished Latin Americans-Juscelino Kubitschek, former President of Brazil, and Alberto Lleras Camargo, who had just finished his term as President of Colombia. Their separate reports last week made disheartening reading.
What Coexistence. Castro's talk of coexistence was nothing new. He has been hinting at it ever since Khrushchev left him high and dry during the October missile crisis. Yet while he talks peace, and while the joint Russian-Cuban communique in Moscow flatly regarded "any export of revolution...
In the course of its investigation, the OAS commission sent nearly 50 messages to Castro's government requesting information, asking permission to travel to Cuba, and recommending "progressive measures in favor of human rights." It got twelve answers, charging that the testimony was malicious propaganda, and demanding that the...