ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT ECHEVERRIA OF MEXICO AND PRESIDENT MARIA PERON WANT CUBA BACK IN "THE FAMILY".

Record ID: 190456

  • Title: ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT ECHEVERRIA OF MEXICO AND PRESIDENT MARIA PERON WANT CUBA BACK IN "THE FAMILY".
  • Date: 20th July 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV ZOOM INTO SV Statue of soldier on horseback in San Martin Square. 0.05 2. GV Echeverria and officials walk towards monument. 0.14 3. GV Crowd gathered round monument. 0.21 4. SV Grenadiers at attention. (2 shots) 0.26 5. SV Echeverria. 0.30 6. SV Child in corwd. 0.35 7. GV Presidential residence. 0.38 8. GV ZOOM INTO SV Echeverria and Maria Peron on sofa. 0.48 9. CU President Peron ZOOM OUT TO GV of her with Echeverria and officials in conference. 1.01 Initials VS 20.21 VS 20.32 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th August 1974 13:00
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Reuters ID: LVA6DY04BB2HRKKV9S0R54SZB9XL
  • Story Text: After talks together in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, Argentine President Maria Estela Peron and President Luis Echeverria of Mexico issued a communique demanding "the urgent return of Cuba to the family". The communique, issued on Friday (19 July), said the two Presidents wanted Cuba to be included again in the Inter-American System form which it was expelled twelve years ago. "Continental unity is inconceivable without the participation of Cuba," the communique declared.

    Their statement came on the third day of President Echeverria's five-day visit to Argentina. On Thursday (18 July) President Echeverria paid homage to Argentina's war heroes, laying a wreath at the San Martin Square monument in Buenos Aires.

    His three-week tour of Central and South America has so far taken in Costa Rica and Ecuador. After Argentina the President is to go on to Brazil, Venezuela and Jamaica.
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