A tragedy compounded of Cuban failures and American mistakes is taking place in Cuba today, Luigi Einaudi, teaching fellow in Government, declared last night. He called Fidel Castro insane but would not call him a Communist.

Speaking on a panel on Latin America before the International Relations Club, Einaudi maintained that irresponsibility of Cuban politicians in the past was discredited democracy in Cuba. "What has paved the way for Castro's direct democracy has been the failure of democracy," he said.

But the United States has become identified with Batista and the forces against social reform in Cuba, Einaudi warned. Such mistakes as supplying arms to the Batista government--arms which were used against the revolutionaries--have made it easy for Cubans to believe Castro's talk of "Yankee colonalism."

Although the regime in Cuba is not Communist--Einaudi pointed to the absence of travel restrictions and the presence of a U.S. base in Cuba as evidence to support this belief--he predicted that Cuba will "follow the Moscow in international affairs.

An economics student from Nicaragua, were on an OAS fellowship, had sharp words to say about American Latin American policy. Roberto Mayorga, "a member of the revolutionary party" in Nicaragua, accused the U.S. of catering to the Somoza dictatorship in his country. He said that fear of Communists often led America to ignore oppressive regimes in Latin American countries.

Mayorga criticized U.S. embassies South of the border, giving an example of an action taken by "an ugly American" Nicaragua. Medical scholarships to Nicaragua were cancelled by the U.S. embassy there after some students had demonstrated before the embassy. also declared that economic and political reports prepared by the embassy Nicaragua were inaccurate, and called for a real exchange of information, rather than the biased accounts he felt the embassy is sending.