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...past conferences the U.S. had urged on its neighbors the need to confront Castro and Communism. Yet always before, the key nations of Latin America had ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly, he wheedled and compromised for endless days to win the necessary two-thirds majority (14 votes) for the blandest sort of condemnation of Castro's dictatorship. But this time...
Eventually, Rosenstein-Rodan went on, the U.S. accepted the nation of such an Alliance at Punta del Este--with the difference in basic thinking that change in social conditions is a precondition of development. The economist approved of this new requirement, but added that trying to promote equal distribution of income naturally costs far more and arouses more opposition than simply trying to make income grow...
This missing sense of perspective has led Latin America to make of Cuba a serious issue as well. The mad preoccupation with the Socialist island, evident at the second Punta del Este conference, has speeded the polarization of Latin American political opinion and increased its ideological content. Simultaneously, it has increased the appeal of demagoguery on the left and the inclinations toward military government to restore order on the right...
...opening we will extend our view and realize that what's at stake here is the freedom of a good many countries which are in very dire straits today . . . We are engaged in a tremendous operation with insufficient resources. And I think we are moving ahead since Punta del Este. But there's an awful lot of business left unfinished, and will be for some time. You cannot remake the face of Latin America overnight and provide better opportunity...
...Punta massacre was the latest bloody eruption of "la violencia," the backland killings-part political, part savagery-that have taken more than 300,000 lives in Colombia in the past 14 years. Last week President Guillermo Leon Valencia, just one month in office, called on his Cabinet to draft a bill giving him greater power to establish police stations in rural areas, provide stiffer penalties for violence, and funds to combat banditry...