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...years of power, Fidel Castro has nationalized, "intervened" or otherwise appropriated $1 billion worth of U.S. investments in Cuba. Last week, on the eve of the tenth anniversary celebration of his 26th of July movement, he grabbed about the only thing left to take-aside from the big naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Castro "expropriated" the $1,200,000, seven-story former U.S. embassy building on the Havana waterfront...
...underwater village celebrated last week the end of a full month beneath the waves. For the village's mayor, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 53, co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung that made modern skindiving possible, it was a double-barreled occasion. Down on the bottom, he celebrated his 26th wedding anniversary, and his wife Simone dropped in with a cake in a waterproof container...
Matos had fought alongside Castro in the mountains and after the victory was assigned the military leadership of Camaguey province. In October, 1959, he resigned to protest Communists replacing 26th of July members in leading local government jobs and in the rebel army. Matos was arrested, charged with treason, tried, and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment...
Draper cites other early indications of the second revolution's progress. At the congress of the Cuban Confederation of Labor in November, 1959, the 26th of July Movement could have "scored an overwhelming victory over the Communists." It failed to do so because Castro appeared unexpectedly and intervened on behalf of the Communists. By 1960 the Confederation of Labor was completely controlled by Communists. In early February, 1960, the President of the PSP (Partido Socialista Popular) publically equated anti-Communism and treason. The same month Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan signed the first Soviet-Cuban agreement in Havana, "amidst an official...
These promises served the 26th of July movement well, but they were incompatible with the undivided, unconstrained power which fell to Castro when Batista and entourage fled the country. Rather than honor the pre-victory democratic pledges, Castro turned to the Cuban and Russian Communists because they had the "disciplined and experienced cadres, the ideology, and the international support" to guarantee his leadership indefinitely. The Communists agreed to collaborate with Castro because they realized that otherwise they could have no hopes of seizing power...