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<text id=90TT0726>
<title>
Mar. 26, 1990: World Notes:South America
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 48
World Notes
SOUTH AMERICA
Talk About Paranoia
</hdr>
<body>
<p> President Fidel Castro has not visited Brazil since 1959,
the year he installed himself as Cuba's supremo. So when Castro
announced that he would attend last week's inauguration of
Brazil's new President, Fernando Collor de Mello, authorities
there were not sure what to expect: certainly a Cuban security
detachment, perhaps even a few small arms.
</p>
<p> Instead, the Cubans shipped in a small arsenal. On March 9
a Cuban transport plane landed in Brasilia carrying 100
passengers and crew members. According to the Rio daily Jornal
do Brasil, there were also ten tons of weaponry aboard. At
first the Cubans tried to convince the hosts that the cargo
consisted of medical supplies. When the Brazilians insisted on
an inspection, they discovered machine guns, grenades, an
antiaircraft gun, even missiles.
</p>
<p> After more than a day of heated negotiations, the transport
plane headed back for Cuba, its cargo intact; Castro's security
detail was left with only handguns.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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