October 27, 1962
Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Mexico (Pio Corrêa), 7 a.m., Saturday
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS
TELEGRAM
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12.880
FROM THE EMBASSY IN MEXICO
ON/27/28/X/19[62]
SECRET
DAM/DAC/DAS/DEA/DOr/DNU/600.(24h)
Question of Cuba.
316 – SATURDAY – 700hs – Referring to my secret oficio no 497. I have just had a long lecture with the under-Secretary of External Relations, who communicated to me his conviction that the United States is not disposed to negotiate [em tôrno] on the Cuban question and has decided to intervene militarily on the island, since is it persuaded that the military and political base that has been established by the USSR disturbs the world equilibrium between the two blocs. The under-Secretary continued saying that, in the opinion of Mexico, the revealed facts about the existence of offensive arms in Cuba modifies substantially the situation, truly revealing a threat to the peace and the security of the continent that has affected the Mexican attitude. He told me even that Mexico judges that the recourses to avoid an anti-juridical solution of the Cuban case have been exhausted and will not oppose [nâo se oporá] a forceful solution that it will be unable to impede, but it will not cooperate in such a sense as for the situation in the long term; he finds indisputable that in case of an acute aggravation of the world crisis, historical, geographical and ideological reasons make doubtless the homogeneity of the position of the American countries, in spite of some possible internal dissent in some of them. Mexico does not anticipate any dissent, since the government has solid control of the internal situation.
MANOEL PIO CORRÊA
An official of the Brazilian Embassy in Mexico describes a meeting with the under-Secretary of External Relations, who communicated his conviction that the the United States is not disposed to negotiate on the Cuban question and has decided to intervene militarily on the island, since it is persuaded that the military and political base that has been established by the USSR disturbs the world equilibrium between the two blocs.
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