November 12, 1962
Telegram from the Brazilian Embassy in Havana (Bastian Pinto), 6:15 p.m., Monday
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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS
TELEGRAM
RECEIVED
13466
FROM THE EMBASSY IN HAVANA
ON/12/13/XI/62
CONFIDENTIAL
DAC/DAS/DOr/DNU/DEA/600.(24h)
Question of Cuba.
382 – MONDAY – 1815hs – The general mobilization of the country causes great damage to production, although the Government affirmed that its effort to reduce its effects, though emergency measures. The shipping is diminishing progressively by pressure of the United States regarding other countries, by the attitudes of dockers of various ports, who refuse to operate ships that stop in Cuba, and, now, by the blockade, which greatly damages foreign commerce. There is contradictory information that it is possible to obtain how much is the reserve of gasoline, foodstuffs, and consumer goods. Evidently, the damage that the Cuban economy is suffering is turning this country still more dependent on Soviet help in the immediate future.
LUIZ LEIVAS BASTIAN PINTO
A description of how the American blockade against Cuba has hurt its production, shipping and foreign commerce capabilities. And according to this telegram, the damage that the Cuban economy is suffering is turning this country still more dependent on Soviet help in the immediate future.
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