LATIN AMERICA - 12. BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT - ELECT MAY ATTEMPT MEDIATION BETWEEN US AND CUBA

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2017
• Case Number: F-2015-02757
• Publication Date: October 19, 1960

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12. Brazilian President-Elect May
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And Cuba
Brazilian President-elect
Janio Quadros hopes to visit
both Cuba and the United States
before his inauguration next
January and may attempt to
mediate between the two govern-
ments, according to information
reaching the American Embassy
in Rio de Janeiro. The embassy
believes Quadros' refusal to
answer questions on Cuba at his
press conference on 13 October
lends credibility to this re-
port. Quadros parried ques-
tions as to his position on the
difficulties between Havana and
Washington, and spokd instead
on US-Brazilian relations and
the "need for Washington to
recognize Brazil's status as an
emerging world power."
Quadros visited Havana
last March as part of his cam-
paign to win the Brazilian work-
ing-class vote and announced
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afterward that he was in full
sympathy with the aims of the
Cuban revolution. More recent-
ly he has referred to Cuba as
a kind of object lesson in the
results of "faulty US policies"
in Latin America.
The outgoing Kubitschek
government volunteered its good
offices early this year and in
July attempted to work out an
arrangement with Mexico for a
joint approach to the problem.
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