MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
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Argentina is in the verge of breaking diplomatic relations with Cuba after ordering its Ambassador in La Habana to definitively return to Buenos Aires.
The decision is the consequence of a series of offensive provocations launched by the Cuban government and Fidel Castro himself, following the disclosure last February that Argentina was going to condemn Cuba in the human rights United Nations vote to be held in Geneva last April, as effectively happened.
In the first incident last February, Cubans called Argentine President De la Rúa "yank boot licker", and the volley since the actual vote was taken condemning Cuba for human rights violations, has included expressions such as "cockroaches, pygmies", "American dwarfs who can only appeal to State Department slug arguments".
At one point the official Cuban newspaper wrote that Mr. De la Rúa was simply acting president, because the man running the country was US sponsored Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo. Insults were also extensive to the junior member of the ruling alliance, the Socialist inspired Frepaso which Cubans described as "Washington's lackeys".
Not even during former president Menem's administration, who consistently attacked Cuba on the human rights issue, did relations reach such a low point.
The only previous similar situation was in 1962 when Argentina following a request from the Organisation of American States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba.
In Buenos Aires, when questioned by the press Cuban Ambassador Alejandro González said he had no plans of leaving Argentina since he was Ambassador before the "Argentine people" and not to the "Alianza coalition government".
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