Diario las Américas., 1958-05-15
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Cuba and Nicaragua

With their usual spirit Of
Justice AM their insuperable
feeling of human cordiality, the
Cuban people have understood
that the Nicaraguan people re.
pudiated with democratic sim
certify the shipment of arms and
tanks made by the bicephalous
dynasty of the Somozas to the
dictatorial regime Of General Ba-
tista. What the Government of
the United States tried to avoid
with the suspension of arms
shipments to Havana, the dicta.
torship of Luis and Anastasio
Somoza obtained, in open chal-
lenge to a Washington decision
that was shared by all the peo-
pies and the democratic govern
ments of America, with a tragic
load of arms intended to kill Gu
ban citizens.
The community of political
Interests of the Managua-H Havana
Axis dictated this transaction
and, further, under the circums-
tanees, it can be said that in
the political reality of both re-
gimes, the commercial interests
Of those who have made of Nj.
caragua a business of their own.
prevailed above all others. The
unbridled determination to make
money at any expense, even If
at the cost of Niearaguan and
Cuban lives, both people of
enduring and generous stock,
was one Of the basic factors In
the eonsummation Of this bloody
transaction.
The Cubans have never thought
that such attitude, that defies
the position recently assumed
we repeat-by the Government
of the United States, reflects in
any way the feelings of the PEG.
pie OF the sister Republic of
Nicaragua, who suffer also q
dictatorship with the aggrava,
ton that, being of dynastic ma.
ture, it has destroyed all that
resembles the republican system.
The Nicaraguans and the Gu
bans find themselves confined
to a common angle of suffering
and sacrifice. The people of the
Fatherland of Marti know that
those arms, perhaps physically
responsible of the assassinations
denounced in the Nicaraguan
Congress by a courageous Con-
gresham, and that ALI Nicara-
qua knows under whose orders
they were committed, and that
were regretted by all Nicara-
guans because of the sadism of
the crime those arms, we
repeat, were not sent by the peo-
pie of Nicaragua, who share
the same democratic ideals with
the Cuban Nation.
From the standpoint of Inter.
American politics and solidarity,
the bicephalous dictatorial dy-
nasty of Managua has given a
repeated example of the scope
OF the alliances between dicta-
tors, who go to extremes such
as giving themselves mutual
military assistance hiding behind
the sincere spirit of Pan-Amer-
lcanism, and with evident scord
OF the sound policies adopted by
other democratic governments
in this specific case, the Gov
eminent of Washington that
ordered the suspension of all
arms shipments to Cuba for the
duration of the present state
OF civil war. In all certainty, this
bloody transaction has stirred
up all the American Nations and
their democratic governments.
1t has been said in reliable
sources that efforts were made
before the Managua government
to stop their shipment of arms
to Cuba; however, to no avail.
The alliances between dictator.
ships is something that little by
little goes beyond las in this
case the orbit of influence of
those who in one way or the
other are interested in rightfully
orienting Inter-American poll
ties.
The Cubans will never forget
this infamy on the part of those
who not happy with subduing
their own people the Nicara-
guam Nation also help others
to do the same in other coun-
tries. And the Cubans know
who are the profiteers in this
despicable operation.