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Assembled in the clear, democratic air of San Jose, Costa Rica, the hemisphere foreign ministers last week quickly convicted Dominican Repnblic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of collusion in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt on June 24. The proof (TIME, July 18), gathered by an Organization of American States investigating committee, might have been vulnerable to questions from a tough defense lawyer, but after 30 years of Trujillo's tyranny, no one was in a mood to demand full evidence...
Remodeled Mandate. After convicting Trujillo, most of the delegates backed Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ignacio Luis...
...keeping constantly on the move, and Che ruthlessly goaded his men into motion. During the day he was the merciless martinet, intolerant of weakness and inspiringly confident. In the evening he taught tactics and the use of weapons, read to his men from Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Venezuelan novelist (and ex-President) Romulo Gallegos, or recited Pablo Neruda's Communist poetry from memory. As they proved themselves in battle, his men proudly christened themselves "Che's Suicide Squad...
...bargains. Che has increased Cuba's foreign exchange reserves from $50 million to $196 million, largely by the simple device of refusing to pay his U.S. bills. The Soviets are keeping Cuba supplied with oil at prices running $14 million a year less than the price of the Venezuelan crude it replaces, though the high cost of transport must in the end be paid by Cuba. Economic sanctions, so long as Castro's popularity lasts with his people, may even increase their fervor for a time...
Domination & Disaster. Concern about Communist penetration spread across the Americas. The Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.. Antonio Carrillo Flores, explained that his nation's recently expressed sympathy for the ideals of the Cuban revolution does not mean approval of "the procedure or methods she is employing." Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt said that Latin American democracies must take charge of telling the Soviet Union to "keep hands off America"' -though to him the first order of hemisphere business was to cope with the Caribbean threat posed by the Dominican Republic Dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, whose agents last month...