Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty. He roared that "by the sovereign will of the Cuban people, this treaty is annulled." Then, while the mob bawled its approval, he tore it up. For good measure he ripped in two a copy of the week-old Costa Rican declaration. From Russia came support. Said Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The Soviet people are enthusiastic about the courageous struggle the Cuban peopie are waging...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller offered up his first-born son to seal his new-found enthusiasm for Dick Nixon; Spanish-speaking Rodman, 28, will head a drive to turn out New York's Puerto Rican and Negro votes for the G.O.P. ticket...
Herter huddled with the U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Whiting Willauer, who recalled an old suggestion by Costa Rican ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres for a U.N. "mandate" over the Dominican Republic. Herter seized on the idea, hurriedly turned it into his proposal for an OAS democratizing committee, and presented it to the conference. In effect, he improvised an unprecedented recognition of the authority and power of two-thirds of the hemisphere nations to supervise the affairs of a single member nation if it strays from democratic standards. The move was aimed at Trujillo, but if OAS-supervised elections became...
...little Comintern of the Western Hemisphere, Havana has also become a sort of branch office where Communists and their collaborators check in. Recent visitors to Havana range from Mexican Artist-Communist David Alfaro Siqueiros (see Mexico) to a couple of Costa Rican banana-union bosses who stopped in en route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed...
...Venezuela, Costa Rica and Honduras have begun to rid themselves of radical Castro supporters. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin, a stubborn early friend of the Cuban revolution, last week got fed up and demanded recall of the acting Cuban consul, charging that she was encouraging Puerto Rican separatist plotters to visit Havana. Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose Figueres, both left of center, are no longer on speaking terms with Castro...