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    "ocrText": "YFor years and years American policy- - not\nthe government, but the trusts and the Pentagon-\nhas supported the Latin American oligarchies.\nAll the prestige, the dollars, and the power\nwas held by a class which Kennedy himself has\ndescribed in speaking of Batista. Suddenly a\npresident arrives on the scene who tries to suppor\nthe interests of another class (which has no\naccess to any of the lowers of power) to give the\nvarious Latin American countries the impression\nthat the United States no longer stands behind\nthe dictators, and so there is no more need\nto start Castro-type revolutions. What happens\nthen? The trusts see that their interests are\nbeing a little compromised.. the Pentagon thinks\nthe strategic bases are in danger; the powerful\noligarchies in all the Latin American countries\nalert their American friends; they sabotage the\nnew policiey; and in short, Kennedy has everyone\nagainst him: The few liberal or allegédly liberal\npresidents who were chosen as instruments of the\nnew policy are swept out of office, like Bosch in\nSanto Domingo, or else they are transformed. Beth\nancourt, for example, was not a Batista; now he\nhas become one. (Ibid. p. 19)\nSo, we see that with the death of Kennedy thene is a new approach\nto the underdeveloped countries of Central and Latin America. Castro\ndid not consider Kennedy an enemy. He looked to him to develop\nInto a great President. Schlesinger speaks further of Castró's\nviews on Kennedy: as reported by Jean Daniel:\n\"He denounced Washington and the CIA. Still,\nof Kennedy, Castro said he could 'be an even.\ngreater President than Lincoln. I know, for\nexample, that for Khrushchev Kennedy is a man\nyou can, talk with. I have gotten this impression\nfrom all my conversations with Khrushchev he\nhas come to understand many things over the past\nfew months; and then too, in the last analysis,\nI'm convinced that anyone else would be worse.\nii]\nCastro was right. The new government which took power after\nKennedy's death assumed a tough and militaristiclapproacl to\nthe aspirations of the underdeveloped and aspiring nations of\nthe world. After Kennedy's death, the new administration, while\navowing to continue his enlightened policies, were among those\n-65-\n1. Schlesinger, Arthur M., op.cit. p. 1000.\n65"
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