The clocks of the city of New York passed a few minutes of ten in the morning of April 15, 1961 when Foreign Minister Raúl Roa García requested the floor for “a point of order” at the headquarters of the Organization of United Nations, a fact that once again demonstrated their intelligence because the real reason was to denounce the bombings and imminent aggression against Cuba.

The Chancellor had just passed through the conglomerate of North Americans, members of the Just treatment for Cuba group, who expressed their disapproval of the aggressions of that country against ours and raised among voices and posters the slogan "Cuba yes, Yankees no."

The 15th Session of the UN had only one item on the agenda to address the situation in the Congo derived from the recent assassination of its leader Patricio Lumumba; however, our Foreign Minister had the mission of denouncing the bombings of the last hours at the Cuban airports of San Antonio de los Baños in Havana, and that of Santiago de Cuba in charge of US-made aircraft.

The word for "a point of order" was granted, at 10:30 a.m. by the Irishman Frederick H. Boland, president of the conclave.

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“After briefly clarifying that it was not a formal question, but a vital one, which he would point out to that body 'in charge of knowing all the issues that affect international peace and security', he denounced the bombings (...) And when with a vibrant voice he added : 'The Cuban delegation accuses ...', the President of the Assembly struck the table and exclaimed: 'Order!', And then warned the Cuban Minister that the point he touched was of substance and not of order and, therefore, he could not do it that way, although he recognized the importance of it.

"Dr. Raúl Roa, with a calm voice, thanked him" for his observation and prayer, "but pointed out that it was not possible for him to withdraw from that high forum without formally and solemnly accusing the imperialist government of the United States, of those events that put "international peace and security at great risk."

Again, the floor is requested for "a point of order", this time by the representative of the USSR to point out the need to immediately discuss the accusation presented by Cuba, for which it was approved, with the consent of more than two third parts of the delegates, discuss it in the First Committee that day at 3:00 pm to the amazement of the United States.

At the appointed time, the representative of Cuba would say:

“This is, without a doubt, the prologue to the large-scale invasion, hatched, organized, supplied, armed and financed by the government of the United States of America, with the complicity of the satellite dictatorships of the Western Hemisphere and the help of traitorous Cubans, and mercenaries of all stripes, trained in North American territory and in Guatemala by technicians from the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency ”.

He also revealed that the pilots of the planes had taken refuge in Florida, and that for ten o'clock at night it was planned to repeat the criminal action against the Cuban people.

It was the responsibility of the US representative, Adlai Stevenson, to try to deny the Cuban accusation by exposing the well-known version that the executors of the bombings were traitors to our air force, and he took the opportunity to label “the government of Mr. Castro” as tyrannical, while the puppet regime of Guatemala tried to evade their complicity, there was no lack of solidarity in the room, one after another with Cuba.

On April 17 in the Political and Security Commission of the United Nations the energetic voice of our Chancellor of dignity was raised again, this time to proclaim:

“Today a unanimous clamor shakes all of Cuba, resounds in our America and has repercussions in Asia, Africa and Europe. My heroic little Homeland is reissuing the classic David-Goliath struggle. Soldier of that noble cause on the battlefront of international relations, allow me to spread that cry in the severe areopagus of the United Nations: Homeland or Death! We shall triumph".