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October 22, 1962

Telegram from the Brazilian Delegation at the Annual Conferences of CIES (Celso Furtado), Mexico City

US Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon tells the Brazilian delegation that he must leave the Annual Conference of Cities in Mexico because the situation between the US and Cuba is too volatile and "he could not say if there will be or not a world nuclear war by the weekend."

October 22, 1962

Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Washington (Campos)

A report from the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, D.C. about several meetings and consultations between the principal members and organs of the government (Kennedy, Johnson, etc.), especially of the Department of State and the Pentagon.Campos believes that an elaborate decision of great significance is in progress and that this decision may refer to Berlin or to Cuba or to the situation of the conflict between India and China.

October 8, 1962

Telegram from Brazilian Delegation at the 17th UN General Assembly

Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos says in a meeting with Afonso Arinos de Mello-Franco that Cuba does not desire to be armed more than it has to for defense. They also discuss United States interference in Cuban affairs.

October 8, 1962

Telegram from Brazilian Embassy in Havana (de Gamboa)

A telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Cuba describing the speech of Cuban President Dorticós, in the UN, as extremely ponderous and even conservative, by Cuban standards. Dorticos alluded at length to the North-American threats against Cuba, evidencing therefore, one more time, the “complex of invasion” that has motivated in large measures the comportment of the revolutionary government in international politics. Dorticos affirmed, moreover, that Cuba desires a “policy of peace and of coexistence” with all countries of the Continent, within an “absolute respect to the principle of non-intervention.”

October 2, 1962

Telegram from Brazilian Embassy in Havana

A telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Cuba giving an update on the most recent internal political situation of Cuba, Russian armament and military personnel arriving.

September 28, 1962

Telegram from Brazilian Embassy in Havana

Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy to Cuba reporting that the United States is already exercising, in a systematic character, strict naval and aerial vigilance around Cuba.

October 31, 1962

Air Letter from Mexican Embassy, Rio de Janeiro

An air letter from Mexican Embassy describing Brazil's role as the mediator of the Cuban crisis, the dismantling of Cuban nuclear weapons bases, and the role of the UN in this conflict.

November 1, 1962

Memorandum of Conversation between Mexican Foreign Ministry Official and Cuban Diplomat, Mexico City

The Cuban Chargé d’Affairs, Mr. Ramon Sinobas, said that he had instructions from his government to ask the Mexican government for its support in the United Nations, to obtain acceptance of the five points that Prime Minister Castro had just made known.

November 7, 1962

Memorandum of Conversation between Mexican Foreign Ministry Official and Cuban Diplomat, Mexico City

The Cuban Chargé d’Affaires, Mr. Ramon Sinobas, visited the Mexican Undersecretary, Pablo Campos Ortiz. They touched on the following points: Mexico's support of Cuba in the UN General Assembly; economic sanctions against Cuba and the shipment of foodstuffs and other merchandise from Mexico; and Cuba joining the Convention on the Inter-American Indigenous Institute.

November 7, 1962

Memorandum of Conversation between Mexican Officials on Shipment to Cuba

Mexican Undersecretary Pablo Campos Ortiz calls to ask if there is any information about the rice and the beans that the Cuban government had acquired in Mexico and for whose shipment Cuba had especially sent a Cuban boat, the “Bahia de Mariel”. It appears that it has not yet been possible to authorize the dispatch of the merchandise.

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