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...Marxist-Leninists,' it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the lowlands." But among the other nations of the hemisphere, Castro's third anniversary was a reminder of a decision to be made at the Jan. 22 meeting at Punta del Este, Uruguay, on the problem of what to do about Communist-dominated Cuba...
Castro's own braggadocio has somewhat brightened the chances of a joint stand against him at Punta del Este. Before he made his boast, such pivotal Latin American leaders as Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi were dead set against anything-even mere disapproval-that could be construed as intervention. Last week, at Palm Beach on his way home from a world tour, Frondizi wound up 1½ hours of talk with President Kennedy with an agreement that some action should come out of the Uruguay conference...
...isolated by sanctions-Frondizi did not say. Yet even this very mild and tentative stand was apparently worrisome to Castro. He sent his Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Olivares Sánchez flying through Latin America in an attempt to forestall any action at all at Punta del Este...
Though a few hypersensitive Latin Americans may not be pleased to deal with a man from a small-sometimes belittled-U.S. territory, there is an undeniable logic to Kennedy's decision. For all the noble sentiments expressed at the Punta del Este conference in Uruguay-last August, the Alliance will work only if U.S. aid ($20 billion promised over the next ten years) is matched by thoroughgoing reform throughout Latin America. In Puerto Rico, Moscoso was the business end of just such a partnership. While liberal Governor Luis Muñoz Marin cleared slums, built hospitals and educated...
...Punta del Este conference three months ago, every Latin American nation (except Cuba) agreed to get busy on the necessary reforms. But a fortnight ago, back from a trip through Latin America, one of the Kennedy advisers who helped shape the Alliance said sadly: "I've got to report that the Alliance is not working yet. We've got to light a gigantic bonfire under the Latino ruling classes, and we've got to do it immediately. We had expected the Latins to respond, and they promised they would, but with few exceptions [Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador...