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Popular support of Castro has been manifesting itself all over Latin America in the last few months. In El Salvador, large groups of students gathered before the U.S. embassy shouting, "Cuba si, Yanqui no." Last August 29, thousands of Venezuelans, demonstrating against the OAS decision, forced their government to give complete support to the Cuban revolution and Castro. In the capital of Ecuador, rioting workers and peasants, protesting against the slow and inefficient land reform program in their country, marched through the streets shouting, "Viva Cuba." In Argentines, even the "Congress of Christian Democratic Organizations" gave its support...
...made just a shade more miserable by outcries of opposition in the streets. After a special Mass at Havana cathedral for "those persecuted under Communist regimes." members of the congregation surged into the street shouting, "Cuba, yes! Russia, no!", a variation on the Castro cry of "Cuba, yes! Yanqui, no!'' For 30 minutes the churchgoers battled pro-Castro hecklers. Next day another street fight erupted after a Mass in suburban Miramar to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Castro wearily hauled himself before the TV cameras to blame "fascist and Falangist" priests...
...even in yanqui-conscious Latin America was the new outspokenness regarded as unwarranted interference in internal affairs. For months the U.S. had suffered in relative silence while Fidel Castro's Cuban government made a mockery of personal legal rights, suppressed newspapers, confiscated property and howled at the U.S. such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked...
These were the same Latinos whose envy of their prosperous northern cousins has festered for a century, who bitterly recall the bygone days of Yanqui imperialism, and who just as bitterly accuse the U.S. of neglecting them and leaving them to their own destiny. As he moved through South America last week, President Eisenhower heard some pointed talk about Latin American aspirations and the need for U.S. aid, and he countered with some pointed observations of his own-about the peril of tyranny by subversion and the necessity of helping one's self. All the frank talk, the cheers...
...China, which has been actively promoting the Latin American tourist trade for only three years, stresses common interests, arguing that the Latin American republics and the "People's Democracy" share colored skin, a yen for industrialization, a mutual distaste for the yanqui. Result: Peking is fast replacing Moscow as the mecca of the Latin left...