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...three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members- notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia-were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the required two-thirds majority of the 23 voting members will agree to drop the sanctions...
Opinion within the OAS has been shifting in Castro's favor over the past several years (TIME, Sept. 2). The pivotal difference at the Quito conference is the attitude of the U.S., which will conspicuously decline to lobby in favor of continued sanctions. The American policy shift was foreshadowed in a recent report by the independent but influential Commission on U.S.-Latin American Relations, headed by Sol Linowitz, former Xerox board chairman and Ambassador to the OAS under Lyndon Johnson. The commission's study firmly recommends an end to Cuba's isolation. It acknowledges that the Soviet...
...foreign investment codes that would at once protect underdeveloped countries from exploitation and shield investors from arbitrary expropriation. In matters involving the OAS, the study recommends that "the U.S. should be guided primarily by Latin American initiatives," which is precisely the role that the U.S. will be playing in Quito...
...Allende. But interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...
...Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats and cabinets in front rooms of their houses will soon be replaced by mass-producing factories...