Word: punta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Bowles shakeup, the Latin American section of the State Department emerged no happier than before; some seven men who cannot be counted on to listen to each other now control hemispheric economic policy. The result is that Dean Rusk travels to Punta del Este to damage the Alliance by splitting Right and Left further apart in Argentina; the President himself has to defend aid to Brazil for lack of other support; and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American affairs, as a former member of the White House staff, is apparently not responsible to his chief...
...State Department members of the Young Democratic of Harvard and Radcliffe received a briefing on American policy on and Latin America. An official them that the Alliance for Progress "necessarily an instrument of U.S. policy," which justified "table pleas" for a tough line against at the recent Punta. del Este . The alliance is not "just a giving away of money," he noted. The official repeated the formal United position that President Kennedy responsibility for any American in the April invasion of . However, he referred the group Theodore Draper's article in the New and Encounter for accurate...
intention to keep outside powers out of the Western Hemisphere is now a responsibility shared with the Organization of American States.* The OAS at Punta del Este declared Cuba's Communism incompatible with its membership, and last week in Washington the Cuban delegation walked out of the OAS before it could be asked to leave...
...recent foreign ministers' meeting at Punta del Este, Cuban delegates hinted that their country will soon be run by a "politbuiro." Besides the original triumvirate of Fidel Castro, Brother Raúl and Che Guevara, these Reds are favorite candidates for the "collective leadership...
...good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words were Rodríguez...