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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...
Until the last hour, the U.S. had hoped to win Argentina and Brazil to its side against Castro, but Latin America's two biggest nations would not come around at Punta del Este. Last week in their home bailiwicks, Brazil's and Argentina's leaders had some explaining to do. In Brazil, Foreign Minister San Thiago Dantas went before an angry Parliament to explain his stand. Skillfully dividing and goading the Deputies into ineffectual quarreling, he escaped uncensured. In Argentina, President
...outburst of public support, he did not get it. When the military men backed up their ultimatum by boycotting a presidential state dinner for Belgium's visiting ex-King Leopold, Frondizi bowed to the inevitable. The announcement made no bones about the reason: "Considering the resolutions voted [at Punta del Este], especially the sixth,* which obtained a two-thirds vote and is causing repercussions in inter-American policies, diplomatic relations with the government of Cuba are today broken...
Cutting the Ties. And at the U.N., two of Castro's Communist friends, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, offered a resolution appealing for an end to U.S. "interference in the internal affairs" of Cuba. "Uncle Sam,'' cried the Cuban delegate, "took his trip to Punta del Este carrying a bag of gold in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other." Apparently, the Reds hoped to draw anti-U.S. support from the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Afro-Asians seemed to regard it all as an inter-American quarrel. Brazil, speaking as a member...