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...from home or by becoming convinced in Costa Rica that failure to act would do irreparable damage to the inter-American system. At last only Venezuela's Arcaya was left leading the crumbling opposition to the firm resolutions submitted by Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico. The negotiators invited Roa to consult with them, but Roa highhandedly replied that he did not work at night. In the end the strong resolution went through, and Roa picked up his papers and walked...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa, speaking before the United Nations Security Council, labeled the U.S. a "butcher'' and asked for U.N. action to head off what he said was a theoretical Yankee invasion. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev chimed in to renew Premier Khrushchev's claim to be Cuba's protector...
...only thing that will be accomplished will be the achievement of animosity and profound dislike on the part of our people. We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us." Communist Sobolev got the point. Ecuador and Argentina sponsored a joint resolution to refer Roa's complaint to the regional Organization of American States. Instead of vetoing the proposal as he had threatened to do, the Russian abstained...
...exclude no neighbor from vilification, Castro's Foreign Minister Raúl Roa accused Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes of cooperating with the United Fruit Co. in planning a Guatemala-based, seaborne invasion of Cuba. Other Latin American leaders held their tempers. But Ydigoras issued his own May Day message to Cuba. He recalled his ambassador from Havana, and disgustedly severed diplomatic relations with Castro's government...
Said Herter: "The U.S. finds itself increasingly obliged to question the good faith of Your Excellency's government with respect to a desire for improved relations." Cuba's nonsensical answer, delivered by Foreign Minister Raúl Roa: The U.S. Secretary of State had personally insulted Diplomat Patterson. "We demand that whenever the United States Government addresses itself to representatives of the revolutionary government, it do so with absolute respect for their official status pursuant to accepted diplomatic standards...