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Delegates to the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este fell silent as bearded Che Guevara, the Kremlin's best friend in Cuba, stood up to deliver his final pitch. "Cuba's delegation has asked again and again and never has received an answer whether Cuba has the right to participate in the Alliance for Progress," said Che smoothly. "Cuba's socioeconomic system may be different from the rest of the nations of this continent, but Cuba nevertheless is part of the whole. The first mark of coexistence is the peaceful recognition of the system...
Misunderstood Cousin. For 13 days, Che had been wheeling, dealing, and stealing the scene at Punta del Este without provoking a U.S. reply. Only too well aware that support is being organized throughout the hemisphere to ostracize Castro's Communist dictatorship, Che set out to show that Cuba is still a member of the hemispheric family. He proved himself an able tactician, here offering a "helpful" resolution, there playing the misunderstood cousin, everywhere extending well-mannered coexistence. Nuzzling up to Brazilian Delegate Clemente Mariani, Che was well rewarded by a Mariani public statement gushing over "how encouraging...
When Che heard that Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Beltran was trying to put through a clause in the Declaration of Punta del Este that would clearly exclude the Cuban dictatorship from the alliance, Che dropped around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in, then withdrew looking hurt. In the end, at Brazil's insistence, Beltran's proposals were watered down to a mere stated preference for representative democracy. It was Che himself who then placed Cuba squarely outside the hemisphere alliance of the other 20 nations by refusing to sign...
Plans & Policies. Over the years, the U.S. has been an indifferently good neighbor to Latin America, misunderstanding and misunderstood, pledging much but producing little in the way of desperately needed capital investment. But there was a new tone to the U.S. commitments made at Punta del Este-and this tone reflected the convictions and attitudes of both Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Douglas Dillon. As custodian of the world's richest treasury. Dillon presides over the fiscal plans and policies of a nation with a record gross national product of $515 billion; as the fiscal housekeeper...
...anger and frustration over the Havana-bound skyjackers captured the headlines. But it was at Punta del Este, 65 miles from the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, that Latin American news for years to come was being shaped. With urgency and hope, 440 delegates from 21 American republics met last week in the most difficult task ever faced by an inter-American assembly: to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. If they succeeded, the conference would launch an immense cooperative pull to lift the face of Latin America. If they failed, chaos or Communists awaited several...