“ppatatus of oppression directed against the national- tion movement of the Latin American peoplesy tba has for three years of the revolution experienced MOUS attempts of interference on the part of the Yan- ss in our domestic affairs. United States pirate planes ;_. "€ to our plantations, They destroyed millions of arro- f sugar cane. Acts of international sabotage commit- RS fe uitited States agents as for example the explosion € ship “Le Coubre” cost the lives of dozens of Cubans; Be quantities of weapons of the most diverse type were hag by parachute on our territory by the U.S. armed tons for Conducting subversive activities; hundreds of 3 Were oo erlosives, a large number of infernal machines : 0 or Secretly delivered to cur coast by U.S. ships in order Was mae acts of sabotage and terror, One. Cuban worker rtured at the Guantanamo naval base. : Tot foreign ministers on meeting in Punta del Este did “ra, ven reproach the U.S. government and those govern- ts Who actually are accomplices of these aggressions. -©xpelled Cuba, a Latin American country, who was Th Victim, who was subjected to aggression. : : — United States has military pacts with countries on > militag nents: it has joined military blocs of all fascist, mst and reactionary governments throughout the 4G St ae NATO, SEATO and CENTO, to which the OAS Vietn tow be added. It interferes in the affairs of Laos, » Korea, and Formosa, attempts to impose its will rlin and declares its intention to use its allies in JAS 2 Set up a trade blockade against Cuba, and the ~~ TOWS nothing of this. . ey orcign ministers assemble and expel Cuba which n military pacts with any country. Thus, the govern- at organizes subversive activities throughout the continent” that knocks together military blocs on four accusing. h Strives for Cuba’s expulsion from the OAS ‘ te €r no more nor less than of subversive activities kG, eo Countries on other continents. : to hun Beas Latin American country which has given land Work th S of thousands, of small farmers, has provided the coun year round on farms and in cooperatives to all Tacks my’s agricultural workers, has transformed bar- i a into Schools, has granted scholarships to 60,000 ‘Of "universities, secondary and vocational schools, _ “ped out illiteracy, has built schools for all the a medion me country, has expanded four-fold the network ich - cal establishments, has nationalized enterprises System longed to the monopolies, has liquidated, the Means _‘buse which has transformed housing into a Memplov...°*Ploiting the people, has sharply reduced ne ment, has destroyed racial discrimination and Detween men and women, has put an end to » Aas destroyed corruption in the administrative Man : has armed the people, has ensured the right i ie es men and women from exploitation, from Bigsc “And social inequality, #8 country which has freed herself from all forms ‘lai thet, Omination, has won complete sovereignty, has “no Jongendation of her economic development and today Coda nger & One-crop country exporting raw material. Meriogn te is being expelled from the Organization of Provide th States by governments that were unable to the fir peoples with a single one of these gains. How ¥ Justify their conduct to the peoples of America a Whole world? How can they state that in accor- bread d their point of view the policy of providing land, uality anj"r the policy of ensuring health, freedom, dignigy 224 culture, rapid economic development, national Neompatin ete self-determination. and sovereignty are ‘Patible with membership in an organization of coun- American. continent? *oples think otherwise. The people consider that bed ®udal exploitation, illiteracy, beggarly wages, _Wasants a & policy of reprisals. against workers, egroes 71, students, of restricting the rights of women, igarchy i cl2ns, Metis, oppression .on the part of the » the plunder of the wealth by United States mono- ers oral oppression of the intelligentsia and art C 76 Tuin of small producers as the: result of abiter tion, economic backwardness, the existence ut det localities without roads, without hospitals, Bation ines. without schools, without an industry, the ty and 'o imperialism, the surrender of national sover- “of Law t@yal of the motherland—all this is not the un America, : 7 otey. explai i i i Ited .Cnsurin, », €Xplain their actions which have resu Will theyt6 Cuba? How will the imperialists feel and what ati those whom they have for that long a time @ wh Cugh they exploited them? vhat ..Sttdy the problems of America usually ask: he dep cuntty came out for improving the conditions homele. ned, the poor people, the Indians, the Negroes, Million ¢yctildren the number of which amounted to Mlion