LATIN AMERICA: Ending an Embargo

In 1961, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro roundly denounced the Organization of American States as "the whorehouse of imperialism." His acerbic judgment was presumably reinforced by the diplomatic and trade quarantine imposed on Cuba by the OAS three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members— notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia—were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the...

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