Claim: Chile-Cuba relations have been positive in the past considering Chile opposed the US sanctions against Cuba and the prohibition of Western Hemisphere governments from establishing diplomatic relations with the country.
Evidence: Chile, together with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia and Ecuador, was opposed to sanctions imposed on Cuba by the United States during the 1962 OAS meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay. In 1971 Chile re-established diplomatic relations with Cuba, joining Mexico and Canada in rejecting a previously-established Organization of American States convention prohibiting governments in the Western Hemisphere from establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.