UN General Assembly
1962

31. The Communist propaganda line, which is designed to convey the impression that a conflict exists solely between Cuba and the United States, is damaging to Latin America because it seeks to make Latin America, appear as if it were a group of republics which are not conscious of their own responsibilities and are incapable of discerning the imminent danger to which they are exposed. This danger is caused by the existence of a Government which, on American territory, has turned the land of José Martí, the great apostle of freedom, into a Sino-Soviet centre for military and political operations and for the ideological subversion of the democratic institutions of all the American nations, of their Christian ethics and of their peaceful coexistence 32. Owing to its exceptional political, military and economic relations with Russia and Communist China, the Communist Government of Cuba constitutes a threat — unparalleled in the history of the hemisphere — to the peace, security and sovereignty of the American States.