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Stone ridiculed Secretary of State Rusk for referring to Latin American objections to U.S. policy at Punta del Este as "legalistic" and presented a strong appeal for "the law of the hemisphere...
Aside from Cuba's predictable rage, the angriest reaction to the decisions taken at Punta del Este last week came not from the left but from the right. Returning home from the 21-nation conference at the Uruguayan seaside resort, the foreign ministers of the nations that had been willing to talk but not vote against Castro heard from some bitterly disappointed elements of their press and public...
...seems to have an instinctive sense of how much ballast to throw overboard in order to stay afloat. He conspicuously ordered home his Ambassador to Cuba, and apparently that was enough. But as a large section of Buenos Aires' press continued to deplore Argentina's performance at Punta del Este ("Lamentable," "Deplorable," "We are ashamed"), the military chiefs stood firm. Eventually, Frondizi gave in, or seemed to. In a communiqué he insisted that Argentina was not "breaking solidarity," that it fully agreed about "the absolute incompatibility of the Marxist-Leninist regime with the Inter-American system...
...this careful weighing of domestic politics in two of Latin America's greatest states that finally shaped the dialogue of the diplomats at Punta del Este...
...vote of 14* to 1 (Cuba) with six abstentions, the resolution won the necessary two-thirds majority, and Fidel Castro's Cuba was declared an outlaw in the hemisphere. After ten days of negotiation, the Foreign Ministers Conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay, had come full circle. The 14 who originally voted to discuss the Cuban problem were the same 14 that agreed to exclude Cuba. The six who abstained were the same six who all along urged the OAS to go slow. They included the "big three"-Brazil, Argentina and Mexico-who between them hold two-thirds...