A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America by Pablo A. Baisotti

Author:Pablo A. Baisotti [Baisotti, Pablo A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367487485
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

“Persecuted, Apprehended and Condemned”: Uruguay and Batista’s Cuba

All the above contribute in a brief way to explain the existence of many and even remarkable gaps about how the history of the many impacts of the Latin American Cold War is made, within the borders of the small “Switzerland of South America.” Even considering the strong projection of the Cuban Revolution, that gave rise to partial investigations up yet, but has not become a subject of reflection comprehensive enough to give an account of an epiphenomenon of this scale, which involved party politics, the cultural field, diplomatic endeavor, social, labor and intellectual life of the country.

However, and despite the geographical distance, Uruguay had lived with certain intensity the Cuban events, particularly since Fulgencio Batista’s coup d’état in March 1952. The great defender of the representative democracy and according to Carlos Real de Azúa, an authentic crusader in the subject during international encounters, Uruguay postponed the most it could the recognition of the new regime after the one-two punch. In the parliament, the critics against Batista’s behavior – a “dictatorship professional” – involved representatives of diverse sectors from both traditional parties, the Colorado party, ruling at that moment and the next successor after 1958 elections, National or Blanco party (DSCS 1953, 240). The Press related to those parties also reflected that annoyance with news story and from the influential weekly paper Marcha, independent and anti-imperialist, their opinions also made a direct critic to Pan-Americanism (Marcha 1952a, b, c). Behind closed doors of the Uruguayan Foreign Service, chancellery emphasized its usual position not prone to recognize governments emerged under those circumstances. The scarce regional echo of its position and the fact that their neighbors gradually were recognizing and keeping normal relations with the regime now headed by Batista, contributed, first to isolation and second, it made viable the subsequent Uruguayan recognition. In Montevideo a wide and foundered report sent to Sergeant Batista, meticulously enumerated the international tradition of the country in the subject and the increasing mistrust and rejection generated to the political establishment and public opinion about the politicization in the army (AMREX- Cuba, FFB 1952). Finally, and as a way of avoiding an obvious isolation, recognition came and along with it, critics to its contradiction with the international behavior of the country (Marcha 1952d, e).

Further to that, different waves of repression triggered by the Batistian regime were also subject of the critic. However, who accomplished a very important role in Havana was the diplomatic mission based there. Correspondence between the Uruguayan Embassy in the Cuban capital city and the Ministry of Foreign affairs in Montevideo is particularly severe in two principal subjects. First, the critical judgment against the regime, its arbitrariness, outrages and even police political sadism in an everyday behavior marked by horror and torture toward prisoners, where there was not even a minimum guarantee. Second, and as a consequence of the last, a vast policy of national solidarity and safe keep toward all the ones who came to the

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