EL MUNDO EDITORIAL ON DOMINICAN AGGRESSION

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• Publication Date: January 28, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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EL MUNDO EDITORIAL ON DOMINICAN AGGRESSION
Havana Domestic Service in Spanish 1230 GMT 28 January 1965--F
(Text) The statements by Gutierrez Menoyo and the enemy agen I !M 11?11
prove beyond all doubt the participation of the Dominican. Government, the docile
instrument of U.S. imperialism, in the training and infiltration into Cuba of
this band of counterrevolutionary CIA agents which was to be followed by new
infiltrations into eastern areas of the country. Men and weapons from the
Dominican Republic were landed in Cuba to perform activities against our government
and people, to provoke the destruction of industries and work centers, and to
bring death, as has happened on many other occasions, to women and children and
to the simple and innocent people of our country.
The training of those men was performed with the knowledge and (participation?)
of agents of the Dominican Government. That constitutes an act of aggression
condemned by the U.N. Charter, the OAS Charter, and international law. Cuba
publicly denounces this fact although it does not expect the United States' 'Puppet
governments, which hastily tried our country in the OAS or, the'unsubstantiated
charges of the government of.Romulo Detancourt, to act in a responsible manner
and try the Dominican Republic in its turn. The reason is obvious: there is a
government of the people and for the people in Cuba that is guided exclusively
by national. interests, and there is a dictatorship in Santo Domingo that is
supported by bayonets in the service of the United States.
Nevertheless, we should expect the responsible governments of. Latin America to
take note of what is happening and to realize the guilt they incur if they
surrender without a struggle the basic principles of international law that
protect the sovereignty and independence of the states.
As for the governments of the rest of the world that did not react as they
should have against previous aggressions, we expect them to open their eye's and
declare that now, as previously, Cuba is not the aggressor, but rather the victim
of aggression.
Havana in Spanish to the Americas 0130 GMT 28 January 1965--E
(Excerpt) Imperialist propaganda played up the trecherous figure of
Gutierrez Menoyo. A. legend of heroism and courage was woven around him. He
was converted into one of the pillars in the struggles against the Batista
dictatorship. Later he was presented as a modern Napoleon, the creator of the
mysterious Omega plan, militarily invincible. The 'aperialists gave some
similar treatment to the two ringleaders Artime and;Ray. The upshot of it
all will be the same.
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Pan-Americanism, as practiced by these rulers, is now translated into a hostile
attitude towards the Cuban revolution. I suggested in these articles that if
Chile desires to maintain its prestige, it should simply--instead of Joining the
sine--try to serve as a mediator to thrash out the differences. l: said that there.,
was no reason for us to be anyone's servant. Cuba is a'c?ountry where Spanish is
spoken.. Every Cuban's peaksspanish. There is no reason for us to divorce
ourselves from Cuba. If Cuba established a socialist government, well and good.
The Cubans concluded that they could solve their problems through'a aooialist
system,.and-there is no reason for us to discuss this matter., If, in my country,
a party or a system is able to establish another type of experience and that
experience grows and (aspires?) to'the achievements of the Cuban revolution, that
too will be respected.
That was my viewpoint expounded in these articles. Once Mr. Frei was elected
president,. 1 found that he shared these viewpoints. As I say; he personally
ratified them. In press conferences as well as in conversations with inc. These
viewpoints were presented by his appointees to international organizations.
The U.S. news agencies warned of this inclination of the Chilean Government to
serve, so to speak, as a bridge and an interested party in moderating the language,
in America and to thrash out the difficulties. The U.S. news agencies in the
main started to create conditions, first to discourage the Chilean Government
and then to represent:Maj. Fidel Castro as having a hostile Attitude toward any
tendency toward intervention of a mediator in American difficulties. For example,
the U.S. news agencies invented some disparaging remarks in connection with a
conflict in a Chilean coal mine and attributed them to Pi del-Castro. The
representatives of these news agencies ran to tell the Chilean interior minister:.
"
Sir, Fidel Castro has just said this."
Under these circumstances, I felt that it was appropriate to'ereate some sort
About this time, Comrade Luis Castillo--my secretary at the Senate--returned to
Chile. Comrade Castillo had toured Cuba and Europe, presiding over a delegation
of senators' secretaries invited by the Cuban Government. Upon his return,
Comrade Castillo told me that Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa had requested me
to transmit to the Chilean Government a Cuban offer to acquire beans, garlic,
and other foodstuffs in Chile in exchange for 40,000 tons of sugar that the
Cuban Government would place at the disposal of the Chilean Government,
According to the interpretation given by the Cuban Foreign Ministry to the most
recent OAS 'agreement, the pertinent article that covers the ban on diplomatic
and trade relations does not exclude the possibility of food exchanges, Even
if the OAS agreement is accepted as valid, the letter and spirit of the pertinent
article does not exclude the possibility bf food exchanges. That is my under-
standing and the understanding of several Chilean international policy specialists.
I conveyed the offer to the republic's president and held meetings with the
foreign minister and the matter remained under study. The offer was favorably
received in principle. As I said, at this time U.S. news agencies started to
distort realities.
Then I felt that it was opportune to come to Havana because, for reasons not
,,proper to mention here,?I?have reached the oonolusion--and so have many of the
leaders in my countryls government--that this is the most propitious moment to
initiate an offensive aimed at?readjustmgnt,' The,term should be properly
understood; I am not speaking `of 'a return by Cuba to the QAS, .:I: am ?r' t
speaking about extending the same practices--I said that we have reached
the conclusion that it is the most propitious moment to initiate an,
offensive to readjust American coexistence.
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