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...prisoners, and the militia fired into the crowd, wounding two. After the initial wave of 30 executions in the invasion's first 48 hours, the regime stopped issuing bulletins-but did not stop killing. The reports are that it still goes on, and travelers from Pinar del Rio province say that for a time after the invasion, executions were quietly carried out there almost every night...
...generations, the world looked on the Monroe Doctrine as bedrock U.S. foreign policy. But the U.S. itself saw a need for supplementing the unilateral Monroe Doctrine with a system of hemispheric collective security. The result was the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, better known as the Rio Pact, which provides that "an armed attack by any State against any American State shall be considered an attack against all the American States." The principle of inter-American collective security against aggression was reaffirmed in the charter of the Organization of American States, drawn up at Bogota...
Recognizing that the Rio Pact and the OAS Charter, with their focus on "armed attack" and "aggression," could not cope with Communist subversion in Latin America, an American conference in Caracas in 1954, under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, voted to broaden the concept of collective security. At Dulles' urging, the conference adopted a resolution declaring that "domination or control of the political institutions of any American State by the international Communist movement . . . would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and political independence of the American States, endangering the peace of America, and would...
...built a ten-story glass-walled office building that survived two decaded of Stalinist criticism as anti-esthetic to become, now, much admired. Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), to advise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look of clean...
...remarkable sympathy and understanding. The London Daily Express, often anti-American, cheered: "British people give their support to Kennedy." In Canada, the Calgary Herald wrote: "The United States has shown the utmost forbearance toward that unfortunate country ever since it fell into the hands of the Castro gang." Said Rio de Janeiro's O Jornal: "This invasion is the beginning of the movement to restore to democracy the Cuban revolution, betrayed by Fidel Castro and his Communist gang." Remarked a high-ranking Venezuelan official: "Kennedy is not crazy or stupid. Every country has the right to give its sympathy...