UN General Assembly
1961

163. The purpose of these manoeuvres is quite clear. In view of the obstacles which, since the Inter- American Economic Conference at Punta del Este and the failure of the military coup in Brazil, it has encountered in its efforts to convene a meeting of the Presidents of the Latin American Republics in Washington and subsequently a conference of Foreign Ministers, the United States Government is bringing pressure to bear on the Latin American Governments to force them individually and in turn to break off diplomatic relations with the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, just as it has already succeeded in doing, by similar methods, with Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica. It will then seek in the Organization of American States to give these measures a collective character, thus setting the stage for a military aggression, also of a collective character, on the pretext that Cuba constitutes "a danger to the security of the hemisphere" because it intervenes in the domestic affairs of other States, and thus, with unparalleled cynicism, trying to make the victim of its acts of aggression and interference, perpetrated in collusion with its Latin American vassals, appear to be the villain of the piece.