Dr Castro
Sir, — Characteristically, Mark D. Sadler, in his misguided Malthusiasm, absolves the United States from responsibility for Latin America’s economic and social malaise, laying the blame on the 38-child Carnauba family, as unique in Brazil as in any other country. Equally characteristically, while opposing the selling of his own country to foreigners, he finds it perfectly acceptable for Latin American countries. Expropriation of United States assets is the indispensable condition releasing Latin America from poverty and backwardness, as Cuba and Chile prove. Mark D. Sadler also turns the facts upside down; it was Castro’s conversion to communism that aroused United States hostility and intolerance. The converse was not the case. Had Castro been merely another Batista-style dictator serving United States interests, he would have been warmly welcomed, but a leader who places his country and its people’s interests first is anathema to the United States, as is the assertion by any people of their will to sovereign independence.—Yours, etc., M.C.H. July 3, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32959, 4 July 1972, Page 12
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