Abstract

Cuba: Policy of Malign Neglect

This article presents the author's views on the issues related to U.S. policy towards Cuba. U.S. Senator, Edward Kennedy, addressing the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, called upon President Richard Nixon to end the double standard that U.S. apply to its relations with Cuba and to its relations with all other Communist governments. They were trying to wring from him some sort of justification for the Cuban policy. Senator Charles A. Meyers defended the Nixon administration's attitude, that it not convincingly, at least with aplomb. Cuba, he argued, still exported revolution throughout Latin America. The 1962 resolution of the Organization of American States, which excluded Cuba from the Organization of American States (OAS), is still in force, and the United States is obligated to adhere to it. Most governments having broken trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba at a 1964 OAS meeting-show no desire to reopen diplomatic relations.