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October 8, 1962

Telegram from Brazilian Embassy in Havana (de Gamboa)

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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS

 

TELEGRAM

RECEIVED

12052

 

FROM THE EMBASSY IN HAVANA

ON/8/8/X/62

 

CONFIDENTIAL

DAC/DOr/DAS/DEA/600.(24h)

Cuban situation. Soviet help.

 

330 – MONDAY – 16hrs45 – Supplementary to my telegram no 327. The speech of Cuban President Dorticós, in the UN, was extremely ponderous and even conservative, by Cuban standards. He alluded at length to the North-American threats against this country, evidencing therefore, one more time, the “complex of invasion” that has motivated in large measures the comportment of the revolutionary government in international politics. Enlarging the tones of the Cuban communication of the 30th [of September], Dorticós declared that his Government is ready to negotiate its differences with the United States and to challenge that country to introduce an identical proposition. He affirmed, moreover, that Cuba desires a “policy of peace and of coexistence” with all countries of the Continent, within an “absolute respect to the principle of non-intervention.”

 

JOSÉ MARIA DINIZ LUIZ DE GAMBOA

A telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Cuba describing the speech of Cuban President Dorticós, in the UN, as extremely ponderous and even conservative, by Cuban standards. Dorticos alluded at length to the North-American threats against Cuba, evidencing therefore, one more time, the “complex of invasion” that has motivated in large measures the comportment of the revolutionary government in international politics. Dorticos affirmed, moreover, that Cuba desires a “policy of peace and of coexistence” with all countries of the Continent, within an “absolute respect to the principle of non-intervention.”


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“MDB—Telegramas Recebidas—Havana—1962/1964,” CX 229, Ministry of External Relations Archives, Brasilia, Brazil. Translated from Portuguese by James G. Hershberg.

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2012-09-14

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