Word: agrarian
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Hear me well, I said Marxist. Our revolution has discovered by its methods the paths that Marx pointed out." He singled out land reform: "No government can call itself revolutionary if it does not carry out a profound agrarian reform. The peasant cannot be given only marginal lands. He must have the productive lands held by private interests who stole them from the peasants ages...
...rest of the free world, that divided Korea and gave control of North Korea to the Communists. It wasn't under the Republicans that 600 million people disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. It was not this Administration that indulged in the illusion that Communists in China are democratic agrarian reformers...
...Boss. By ignoring foreign obligations that now total $125 million. Che has built up his exchange reserves to $196 million. Che's money has gone largely to finance the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA), which now owns almost half of Cuba-13,246,800 acres out of its 28 million acres. Last week 605,333 head of confiscated INRA cattle grazed on 2,091,600 acres of confiscated pasturelands. Operating from a ig-story Havana headquarters, complete with piped music and two offices for INRA President Fidel Castro, INRA is running 1,392 collective farms, 2,000 "people...
...months Diario and Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero, 39, had been living on borrowed time as they blasted Castro's arbitrary rent reductions, his agrarian farm laws ("Hundreds of people have had their property taken away without compensation"), his flirtation with Communism. Boldly the newspaper spoke out for "democratic normalcy and the law. Is this a crime? Is it immoral? Are there not a lot of Cuban people who want the same?" Castro tolerated such impudence only because Diario was considered the unofficial spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba and because it furnished proof to "Yankee imperialists" that...
Said his even-toned statement: the U.S. will not intervene in Cuba, has "real sympathy" for agrarian reform and other "Cuban ideals." The U.S. will go on objecting to Cuban violations of its own and international law that affect U.S. citizens. Moreover, the U.S. is considering solutions to its difficulties through "appropriate international procedures," e.g., the World Court...