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The heart of the Brazilian argument for condemning but not expelling Castro was legalistic but not uninteresting. The OAS is intrinsically a league of governments committed to representative democracy, said the Brazilian delegate, and "any American state voluntarily departing from such a system breaks its ties of solidarity with the other American states." In other words, having volunteered out, Cuba did not have to be kicked out.
* Which declared Castro outside the Organization of American States.