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1. “It has managed every time to get the item withdrawn from the United Nations and referred to the OAS, where it could count on all the recourses and resources it required. What has happened? Has the OAS lost so much face that it cannot carry on any longer? Why is the forum that was so obstinately avoided before being so anxiously propitiated now? 74. I must make clear that the Cuban Government is not interested in revealing the imperialists' motives in now using the United Nations platform instead of their Ministry for the Colonies. The acts of aggression against Cuba have been committed on the fringe of both international organizations, with their knowledge and acquiescence and with their active or tacit complicity. Be that as it may, the revolutionary Cuban people will continue their irreversible march. However, Mr.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

2. “It is also as well to remind the representatives here that, on the eighteenth of that month, I appeared on behalf of my Government before the Security Council to request it to consider "... the grave situation which now exists, with manifest danger to international peace and security, as a consequence of the repeated threats, harassments, intrigues, reprisals and aggressive acts…” to which Cuba was being subjected by the United States Government, and that the Security Council, acting on a proposal by the United States representative and despite my protest, referred consideration of the matter to the Organization of American States — that is, did the exact opposite of what is happening today. Hitherto the Yankee Government's consistent policy has been to refuse to discuss the "case of Cuba" in the United Nations.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

3. “One month after that event the refineries owned by United States monopolies refused to process crude oil imported from the Soviet Union. The sinister plan to cut off the fuel supply and so paralyse the Cuban economy was under way. 73. The economic aggression which today is a total blockade first became discernible in 1960. On 6 July of that year President Eisenhower, by presidential proclamation, reduced by 700,000 tons the United States import of sugar from Cuba, an arbitrary measure constituting the international offence of economic aggression, which is conditionally prohibited by article 15 of the Charter of the OAS. It is right, Mr. President, that you and the representatives present should wonder what the OAS did on that occasion. What did the OAS do? It maintained the most impenetrable silence.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

4. “During the period of these attacks by light aircraft, which lasted several months, the United States pilot Robert Ellis Frost, who had flown from the airport of Tamiami, Florida, to bomb the España refinery, was captured. 71. Has anyone forgotten the criminal sabotage of the French ship Le Coubre in March 1960 by agents of the Yankee Government? That explosion, which took place in the port of Havana, killed more than a hundred persons and wounded more than two hundred. 72. The aggressive plans grew day by day. Two months after this ghastly attack the United States light aircraft numbered N4365 was shot down to the east of the Cuban capital. The aircraft was piloted by Edward Duke, a United States citizen, whose body was handed over to the United States embassy.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

5. “So the doors of the Federal Congress were opened to admit in audience deserters from the Cuban armed forces and revolutionary Government and war criminals of the overthrown dictatorship who had been denounced as such by the Cuban authorities — an unusual case of authorities of one country officially discussing the internal affairs of another. So also light aircraft were sent from the coast of Florida to sabotage our sugar production. 70. From dropping incendiary bombs on sugar refineries, imperialism progressed to the dispatch of a twin-engined aircraft which machine-gunned the city of Havana on 21 October 1959, killing several people and wounding dozens.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

6. “Imperialism in Cuba, as in other countries subject to its aggression, applies the principle of escalation. In Cuba it began with threats and very shortly moved to deeds. The early months saw a combination of defamatory propaganda and diplomatic notes which were a tissue of lies. As the revolution consolidated and began to affect the United States monopoly interests, imperialism tried minor provocations and aggressions, thinking that they would be sufficient to halt or deflect the revolutionary process. 69.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

7. “I do not, of course, renounce my right to do so and to take the necessary time, whenever I see fit, to denounce one by one the acts of aggression committed during the past nine years. I know full well that the United States imperialists do not let the Charters of San Francisco or Bogota stop them from committing their outrages. 67. Although a detailed list is not required, it would be as well, however, to single out certain facts in order to refresh the memory of the General Assembly and alert world public opinion. These facts clearly show once again the hypocrisy and danger of imperialist policy and the menial, ridiculous and subordinate part the OAS plays in the Yankee Government's aggressive, interventionist and subversive strategy. 68.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

8. “From 2 February 1959, when the United States citizen Allen Robert Mayer was detained in a light aircraft in which he had illegally entered Cuba in order to assassinate our Prime Minister, until 9 August 1967, when a number of agents of the Central Intelligence Agency, sent to assassinate Commander Fidel Castro with bullets containing cyanide poison, were present at the first Conference of the Organization for Latin-American Solidarity, inaugurated at Havana in July 1967, the imperialists never ceased for one minute to devise the most diabolical plans imaginable. 66. I feel that there is no need to detail at this time the long list of aggressive acts of all types committed against the Cuban people, or to specify the imperialists' violations of the legal rules of the United Nations and the OAS.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

9. “In almost nine years three United States Governments have intervened in Cuba without the international organizations having dared to make even a timid attempt to caution the aggressor; the OAS has not only maintained a cowardly silence but has even tried to lay the blame on the victim. No example of such effrontery has ever before been seen in the history of international relations. 65.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

10. “Only fifteen days after the liberation a group of Congressmen led by Representative Wayne Hays requested the State Department to send troops to Cuba in addition to applying economic sanctions such as the cutting of the sugar quota and a trade embargo. 63. It was not long before their requests were granted. The records of the Security Council and the General Assembly bear proof of United States imperialist aggression against Cuba. On more than one occasion the delegation of our Government has had to denounce before this Organization the flagrant violation by the United States of the principles of international law in its vain attempt to thrust the Cuban people back to their former state of exploitation, oppression and servitude. 64. The shamelessness with which imperialism has acted is well known, as well known as the discredit of the OAS.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

11. “The acts of harassment, subversion, intervention and blockade by the United States against Cuba started at the very outset of the revolution. Before the OAS had been duly informed of the singular and historic events which had befallen in Cuba, it can be said that the State Department, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency were already tearing up the principles, agreements and commitments of the so-called Inter-American system; and then, as always, the OAS followed in the wake of the imperialists, rubber-stamping their acts of aggression against my country's independence and abetting their crimes. 62. From the outset of the revolution the United States sheltered and supported the murderers, plunderers and torturers of the dictatorship overthrown by the popular insurrection.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

12. “I cannot make even a rapid summary of United States domination in Cuba, especially of the desperate efforts of the Eisenhower Government to prevent the triumph of the popular Insurrection by supplying weapons, aircraft, tanks and military advisers to the dictator Batista. It is obvious that his defeat was also the defeat of the Eisenhower Government and of Yankee imperialism. Although I have sufficient material for a speech a hundred hours long about the acts of Intervention, aggression, provocation and subversion done during the past nine years by the Yankee Government and Its Latin-American puppets against Cuba, I shall for the moment limit myself to recalling the salient facts and features of that catalogue of blunders. 61.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

13. “Spanish colonial domination came to an end in 1898, In the same year the political, economic, military and diplomatic dependence of Cuba on the United States began, when the fruits of tremendous sacrifice and heroism by many generations of Cubans were shamelessly appropriated; it ended on 1 January 1959, the date which, with the overthrow of the cruel and rapacious pro-imperialist dictatorship of Batista by the popular insurrection under Fidel Castro's leadership, signalled the true achievement of independence, self-determination and sovereignty by the Cuban people. José Marti's mandate had been carried out in full. The Cuban Revolution is, in a word, the crystallization — in the age of the death-throes of imperialism and the advent of socialism — of the secular dream of thousands of Cubans immolated in the pursuit of that ideal. 60.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

14. “my duty — inasmuch as I realize it and have the spirit to fulfil it — is to prevent, by the independence of Cuba, the United States from extending itself through the Antilles and with that added momentum taking over our American lands... [have lived inside the monster and know its insides — and my weapon is only the slingshot of David." 59.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

15. “This base is a nest of spies, saboteurs and mercenaries in the service of the counter-revolution and the Pentagon, and a centre for constant acts of provocation which go even as far as the murder of Cuban sentries guarding the frontier line. 58. For four centuries Cuba was a Spanish colony, and for more than half a century a semi-colony of the United States. When Jose Martí, the apostle of our independence, was about to unleash the "necessary and just war" that would emancipate the Cuban people from Spanish domination, he proclaimed: "Cuba must be independent of Spain and of the United States". On the eve of his death on the battlefield he wrote in a letter to his Mexican friend Manuel Mercado: "...”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

16. “This record, although whitewashed by the scribes and puppets of imperialism, is well known to all the peoples who have suffered from it and in this century has been shown up in all its crudity by the imposition of the Platt Amendment on Cuba, the occupation of Puerto Rico, the amputation of the Isthmus of Panama, the attacks on Mexico, the military interventions in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba and Guatemala, the support given to the bloodiest dictators of the continent, the recent military occupation of the Dominican Republic and the policy of undeclared war against Cuba ever since the triumph of our Revolution. 57. In Cuba Yankee imperialism, in addition to imposing on it the Platt Amendment, set up against the will of the people a naval base at Guantanamo.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

17. “56. The history of the United States is largely a record of territorial expansion at the expense of Spain and Mexico, and of economic absorption, political domination and ideological penetration in Latin America accompanied by distortion, obstruction and stifling of its development and the con sequent misery, impoverishment, illiteracy, discrimination, exploitation and oppression.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

18. “It is clear that the absolute monarch of intervention and subversion and his lackeys, no longer able to undertake military adventures in Cuba without encountering a Bay of Pigs at every corner, entangled in the web of their own contradictions, perfidy, clumsiness, lies and failures, do not know how to get out of the mire in which their own insensibility, arrogance and stubbornness have landed them. The few who have any decency left have revealed by their abstentions their ashamed rejection of the cynicism and servility shown by the rest. 55. The Cuban people, as our Prime Minister has said, remained serene and imperturbable in face of the new manoeuvres of the imperialists. The task of speaking the truth to the imperialists and their lackeys was to be left to the Cuban delegation at the United Nations; and that is what we are now doing.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

19. “When all the people of this world who possess a modicum of culture become aware of the tremendous problem of the under-developed countries, of the enormous gap separating the industrialized from the under-developed countries; when all men who in any way bear the burden of world affairs meet to analyze and seek ways to solve the extremely difficult problem of the under-developed countries, the world sees imperialism, with its band of starving lackeys, kicked around and under-developed, proclaiming a declared policy of economic blockade against a country whose only crime is to attempt to rid itself of imperialist tutelage, to emerge from under-development, to free itself from exploitation and hunger — proclaiming this even in the United Nations itself." 54.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

20. “The agreements arrived at by the supreme monarch of Intervention and subversion and his lackeys — that picturesque court of strong men with obtuse minds, insatiable appetites, weak backs and fragile knees — bear the trademark "Made in USA". They all add up to a stupid restatement of the criminal Imperialist policy of the economic blockade of Cuba and to a redoubled effort to famish its people, this time threatening with frenzied reprisals not only European governments and enterprises but also, in a display of unheard-of stupidity, the socialist community, if they continued to trade with our country. As the Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government, Commander Fidel Castro, has stated: "A policy of this kind is one of the most criminal of acts, one of the things most apt to wound the universal conscience.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

21. “I will not insult anyone by implying that the OAS should be taken seriously. It would be difficult to think of a more thoroughly discredited institution. The OAS calls itself a regional body of the United Nations; but ever since it started it has been a tool of the United States Government's foreign policy in Latin America, and today it is that country's "Ministry for the Colonies". Just because revolutionary, anti-imperialist and socialist Cuba was a small planet following its historical orbit without asking anyone's leave, it was expelled from the OAS; but not before that organization had made a mockery of the hollow principles of its charter. The incompatibility of Cuba with that "Ministry for the Colonies" is obviously hopeless. 53.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

22. “The contrast could not be more striking. A few months after the military occupation of the Dominican Republic, and in the middle of its invasion by the Green Berets, the representatives of the fascist gorillas, the oligarchies and the feudal systems met in Washington with the absolute monarch of world- intervention and subversion to accuse Cuba of intervention and subversion in Venezuela on the ground of its policy of solidarity with the revolutionary movement; but our people devoted themselves wholeheartedly to their work, singing their cheerful refrain: "Despite the OAS, we shall win the battle". 52. How else could they react to the spectacle of a demoralized group of scared lapdogs pretending to be wolves on the strength of the Yankee teeth — already pretty well gapped by the victorious resistance of the people of Viet-Nam?”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

23. “The puppeteer must be crazy, and his puppets very simple. 49. We do not know whether they will ultimately decide to present, jointly or severally, the case of Cuba to the United Nations for consideration. Cuba, however, is here again to reverse the roles and to place its would-be accusers in the dock, as it has done — on indisputable moral, ethical and legal grounds and with the militant support of the Latin-American peoples — at San José (Costa Rica), at Punta del Este (Uruguay) and, whenever it has seen fit, in the Security Council and the General Assembly. 50. Furthermore, Cuba is here, not to refute imputations which recoil on those who launch them, but to denounce once again with clearly irrefutable evidence the misdeeds of all kinds perpetrated against our people by Yankee imperialism and its Latin-American puppets. 51.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

24. “In all justice it must be recognized that the Government of the United States has outdone the Nazis in presenting spectacles which show its undisguised contempt for international law. Its latest theatrical presentation is well known to all the delegations here: the grotesque farce staged by the OAS, with the praiseworthy exception of Mexico, against Cuba, and the transfer of the question to the United Nations. Did the Yankee puppeteer and his Latin-American puppets believe that they were going to worry Cuba with that contrived transfer, aimed at playing down the ridiculous failure of its repugnant machinations? Did they imagine for one second that they could put Cuba in the dock, for nine years the victim of their policy of harassment, intervention, aggression, provocation, subversion, terrorism, sabotage and economic blockade?”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

25. “46. Mr. President, the Cuban delegation is extremely delighted to congratulate you on your election as President of the twenty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly and to assure you of our fullest co-operation in the work that you are to carry out. 47. In compliance with an express decision of my Government, I appear in this Assembly with the basic intention of dealing with the case of Cuba. My delegation cares not at all whether that case will he raised or not by those instructed to do so under a recent agreement of the Organization of American States. In due course we shall make known our views on the various items that have been allocated to Committees. 48.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

26. “We know that to advance is also a way of fulfilling our duty to our brothers on the continent and all the peoples of the world who suffer from exploitation, oppression, discrimination, poverty, hunger, disease and ignorance. To these peoples we renew our promise to encourage them by our example and to assist them in their fight for emancipation. 148. From this rostrum we repeat the battle cry of the Cuban people: "Our country or death! We shall overcome!"”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

27. “But Cuba still stands, building its new life, expanding its agricultural and livestock plans, laying the foundations for its industrial development, carrying out Its schemes for education, public health, housing, water supply, culture and sports, which — despite the blockade and the breaking-off of diplomatic and trade relations, despite sabotage, provocation, aggression and constant threats from the most powerful imperialist Power — have already raised the standard of living of its peoples to levels which for the rest of the countries of Latin America are only a dream. 147. Cuba is advancing and will continue to advance, overcoming difficulties of every kind, including those imposed by nature.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

28. “The last act of piracy committed under the protection of the United States authorities was by an aircraft coming from the United States which recently dropped three bombs in the area of Nuevitas, presumably with the intent of damaging industrial installations being built there, though without causing any injury or material damage. The counter-revolutionary organization, which boasted of the crime, received for its violation of international law and the domestic legislation of the United States nothing more than a quibbling reply from the State Department. What Imperialism breeds the Pentagon consolidates. 146.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

29. “The response of the people and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba to this diabolical plot was given by the Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, in a warning which foiled the Pentagon's strategem: "If they attack us, we shall fight them as long as one man is left to us and even if we are the only people in the world engaged in armed struggle*. Moreover, the ridiculous, false and stupid imperialist version of the facts was verified on the spot by more than thirty correspondents of the foreign Press and news agencies. 145.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

30. “In May of this year, the Cuban Government found itself compelled to order the revolutionary armed forces into a state of alert because the Yankee imperialists had created a crisis as a pretext for aggression following the foul murder of the Cuban soldier Luis Ramirez Lopez by Marines of the Guantanamo naval base. The shameless distortion of the facts and the allegation that Cuban soldiers had invaded the base, used as a clumsy cover-up for the crime committed, clearly indicated that aggression was being planned.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

31. “The imperialists are using the most varied means to try to counteract the radiance of this example. In some cases, they have imposed facist-type regimes which launch the most brutal oppression against the people; in others, they have tried pseudoreformist manoeuvres as a means of delaying the inevitable popular explosion, which find their greatest support among those who have betrayed the principles of the revolution and are deliberately serving their interests. In essence, these are variants which intermingle and merge with the policy of the iron hand, though they may sometimes be concealed in a velvet glove. 144. The essential aim of United States policy continues to be the same: to destroy the Cuban revolution and to maintain United States hegemony over the continent.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

32. “By destroying the tyranny of Batista after a lengthy, fierce and arduous armed struggle, organized and directed by Commander-in- Chief Fidel Castro; by carrying out the most far-reaching political, economic, social and cultural changes ever recorded in Latin America within a short period of time; by dealing firmly with the threats, provocations, blackmail, aggression and economic blockade of Yankee imperialism; by consolidating the victories won and progressing swiftly in building a socialist and communist society in the most adverse circumstances, Cuba has proved to the peoples of Latin America that independence, revolution, socialism and communism are possible in our continent. The example of Cuba is a decisive factor in the dynamics of revolution in Latin America. 143.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

33. “But we should not harbour many illusions. In a world like ours, international co-operation grows more illusory with each day that passes. 142. With the New Year, the Cuban revolution will enter upon its ninth year.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

34. “The Cuban Government considers that the principles and recommendations of the Conference barely respond to the minimum demands of the under-developed countries and that it is consequently Impossible to establish a fruitful dialogue on the regulation of the world sugar trade as long as the developed countries make a mockery of those principles and recommendations and try to force the developing countries to bear the burden of the crisis provoked by their policies of discrimination and subsidies to domestic production. 141. The under-developed countries should stand firmly by the principles and recommendations agreed on in 1964 and refuse to yield to the pressure being exerted to make them accept a handful of crumbs, in exchange for retaining and consolidating their dependent and backward economic structures.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

35. “Experience has shown that the views which prevented the adoption of specific measures in favour of the under-developed countries in 1964 still persist and that there is no intention of putting into practice the principles and recommendations contained in the Final Act of the Conference on Trade and Development. 140. In the specific case of sugar, a product of vital importance to Cuba's economy, the position is the same as in the general situation I have described. As the Secretary-General rightly pointed out to the Conference on Trade and Development in his speech at the 93rd plenary meeting of the Board of that body, one of the fundamental reasons for the failure of the Sugar Conferences was the refusal of the developed countries to allow the under-developed exporting countries a greater share in increased consumption.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

36. “When it opened in Geneva in 1964, the Conference fostered the hope in many under-developed countries that the United Nations would deal effectively with the grave problems that beset international trade and hamper efforts to achieve the rapid economic growth which their hungry peoples are demanding with growing insistence. It was very soon apparent that the policy of most of the developed countries, instead of being directed towards solving these problems, was to cling tenaciously to those conditions which enable them to exploit the less developed countries. 139.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

37. “Since the principle of universality should operate fully in the United Nations, the Cuban delegation requests the admission to the Organization of the German Democratic Republic, hitherto excluded from its ranks. Its participation in the Organization's tasks and responsibilities would constitute an effective contribution to peace and security in Europe, now threatened by the revanchiste policies of the Federal Republic of Germany. 137. It may be relevant to offer a few comments on the central economic theme of our agenda: I refer to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 138.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

38. “To be serfs or free men; once again, these are the alternatives before the peoples of Latin America. Now the serfs have roused themselves, they are getting up, and they will not cease from the fight until they are free men. This is the tide of history in the three continents and the emancipated peoples have an obligation to help speed the liberation of the oppressed peoples. Experience shows that in the face of counterrevolutionary violence the only option is revolutionary violence. 135. The Revolutionary Government of Cuba declares its full support for the decisions of the Tri-Continental Conference and reaffirms its revolutionary solidarity with the plundered and embattled peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. 136.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

39. “It is the reaction of the oppressed to the challenge of the oppressors and it breaks loose out of the depths of national realities, as was the case in Cuba, and is now the case in Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru. It is a right and a duty of enslaved peoples. The peoples of Latin America exercised this right and this duty long before the holding of the Tri-Continental Conference and the triumph of the Cuban revolution, and they will go on exercising it until they win self-determination, independence and sovereignty. The call to armed struggle, when all other ways are closed, is contained already as the seed in the fruit, in the regime of exploitation and oppression imposed by the oligarchies and sustained by imperialism, its principal beneficiary.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

40. “The Tri-Continental Conference and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba cannot be held responsible for the terrible state of affairs in Latin America and the growing organization, unity and action of its victims; the responsibility rests solely with Yankee imperialism and its Latin American lackeys. The right to rebel against injustice, oppression, poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease, servitude and foreign domination is an inalienable right of peoples, and it is their ineluctable duty to resort to all methods and forms of struggle capable of breaking the yoke which strangles, oppresses and humiliates them. 134. The armed struggle of peoples for their emancipation cannot be exported or imported.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

41. “In case the memory of those who drafted the resolution is flagging, may I offer them the following summary as an eloquent reminder: the United States robbed Mexico of 2 million square kilometres of its territory; it occupies Puerto Rico; bombed Vera Cruz; intervened in Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic; assassinated Madero and Pino Suarez, President and Vice-President of Mexico; waged undeclared war on Cuba; backed and gave the go-ahead signal to Porfirio Diaz, Juan Vicente Gimez, Ubico, Trujillo, Machado, Perez Jimenez, Batista, Stroessner and Somoza, to mention only its most typical strongmen. Imperialism and intervention are one and the same. 133.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

42. “This was why they met, not to promote, support or justify the political, economic and diplomatic domination of Latin America by Yankee imperialism by means of such broken-down contraptions as the Alliance for Progress, or to facilitate, abet or support imperialist interference, by violently restraining the struggles of the people for their national and social liberation. 132. Who nowadays is unaware that the history of the United States is to a large extent the history of its interventions, aggressions and exploitations in Latin America, and its support, for selfish reasons, of the exploiting oligarchies, military cliques and most reactionary groups in our countries?”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

43. “For this reason, the draft resolution adopted on 2 February 1966 by the Council of the OAS, accusing the Tri-Continental Conference and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba of violating the principle of nonintervention and aiding the Latin American guerrillas will lash back like a boomerang against its own sponsors. 131. The peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America met at Havana precisely in order to organize concerted action against imperialism and its consequences: exploitation, poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease, lack of education, racial discrimination, national oppression and international serfdom.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

44. “Who but they have accepted without a whimper the insolent statements of the United States Executive and Legislative Branches, which threw into their faces the United States intention of disposing of the Latin American Republics as though they were part of President Johnson's ranch? In short, who but these strong-arm men and theoreticians of foreign intervention, aggression, subversion and exploitation in Latin America are the instruments and accomplices of Yankee imperialism in its flagrant and cynical violation of the principle of nonintervention? 130.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

45. “But who would give credence to the charges of these so-called champions of Latin American sovereignty, for they are the same men who have been the accomplices of the acts of intervention, plunder, abuse, subversion and aggression committed by the Yankee imperialists? What moral authority can emanate from those who shamelessly accepted the military intervention in the Dominican Republic and have Joyfully acquiesced in elections held at the point of foreign bayonets? Who will regard as zealous custodians of the principle of non-intervention those who expelled Cuba from the Organization of American States and allowed their territory to be used as bases for aggression against Cuba? Who but they passively permitted the bloody aggression of the Marines against the people of Panama?”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

46. “Guided by the spirit of the Tri-Continental Conference, the popular movements and organizations of Latin America have forged a suitable regional instrument to strengthen their ties and their mutual support: the Latin American Solidarity Organization. 129. The importance, significance and effect of both of these events was demonstrated in the fury of the imperialists and the hysteria of their strong-arm men and theorists. The most dyed-in-the-wool lackeys and reactionary rulers of Latin America protested against the agreements reached at the Conference, alleging a violation of the principle of non-intervention.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

47. “The First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America, held in Havana, the capital of Cuba, from 3 to 14 January 1966, over which I had the honour to preside, for the first time brought together the representatives of popular movements from these three continents in a meeting which will be remembered in the history of the liberation of mankind. The Tri-Continental Conference gave expression to the solidarity of the national liberation movement in Africa, Asia and Latin America, defined a common policy in the head-on fight with imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and welded a strategical and tactical unity in battle, drawing on the rich experience of the participating countries. 128.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

48. “At the same time it pays a tribute to Luis Augusto Turcios Lima, commander-in-chief of the Rebel Armed Forces of Guatemala, fallen at his battle station, and to Captain Hely Perez Silva, head of the permanent delegation of the General Command in Cuba of the National Liberation Front and the National Liberation Forces of Venezuela, who died recently in Cuba after a painful illness, still clinging to his revolutionary ideals. These guerrilla fighters, like the Cuban guerrillas of the Sierra Maestra before them, the true descendants of the liberating hosts of Bolivar, San Martin, O'Higgins and Maceo, will conquer despite all obstacles and reverses, for their struggle Is an inseparable part of the world movement which is today shaking the foundations of imperialist domination. 127. The time has come to take stock of the situation.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

49. “The hour has already struck for Latin America's second and real independence, the necessity and Justice of which Jose Marti envisioned and preached at the First Pan American Conference. The guerrillas of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Guatemala are the protagonists in this fight for emancipation, which the Cuban revolution initiated. To these fighters sanspeur et sans reproche, who have the future on their side, the Cuban delegation extends its heartfelt greetings.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

50. “Their peoples fought, with varying degrees of courage, for their emancipation from the Spanish metropolitan Power, in very difficult conditions. Since they became independent, the fruit of those sacrifices has been stolen from them. Very early on, United States imperialism, in its dizzying rise, imposed its neo-coloniallst hegemony. The territorial and economic expansion of the United States was nurtured specifically by military aggression against the nations of Latin America, plunder of their territory, exploitation of their resources and barefaced intervention in their internal affairs. There has been a century and a half of interference, depredation and abuse, and, parallel with this, of sustained resistance by the peoples to foreign domination, 126.”

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