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In letter No. 719 to the Organization of American States last week, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai formally announced to Latin America that the Alliance for Progress was now in business. With assurance of a $600 million starter from Congress, the U.S. has called a meeting of the OAS Inter...
No Complaints. The reaction from the hemisphere spokesmen has been immediate, strong and favorable. For the first time since the Cuban invasion, the Mexican government let it be known that it was "100% in accord with Kennedy." Chile's conservative President Jorge Alessandri was openly enthusiastic about the promised...
No Posse. Worse yet was Brazil, now run by the mercurial Janio Quadros, who is four months older than Kennedy. Over the past fortnight. Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos has taken an increasingly hard line on Cuba, announced that Brazil would support in principle an OAS meeting and would be forced...
Recognizing that the Rio Pact and the OAS Charter, with their focus on "armed attack" and "aggression," could not cope with Communist subversion in Latin America, an American conference in Caracas in 1954, under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, voted to broaden the concept of...
There was less agreement on how far to go. Most Latin American governments still oppose direct military intervention by the U.S., and it is doubtful whether the U.S. would be satisfied with a simple OAS vote to condemn Castro by name (which it has not yet done). The U.S. last...