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Cuba's revolution now seems aimed at taking over every institution, business and property of note in the country. Fidel Castro's National Institute for Agrarian Reform (I.N.R.A.) has blanket authority to seize land, and it is doing just that at a hectic pace. His Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property grabs all possessions of "counter-revolutionaries," real and imagined. To this pair of communizing agencies, Castro last week added a third: the Labor Ministry, which got decree power to take over any business or labor organization...
Collected Essays, by Allen Tate. Trenchant examinations of authors, critics and 20th century society, categories well supplied with targets for Agrarian Poet Tate's disapproval...
...story concrete building in downtown Havana, the select inner ring of Fidel Castro's chaotic dictatorship this week celebrates its first anniversary in power. The building is not the national palace or the long-deserted Congress, but the tightly guarded headquarters of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). Yugoslav Theoretician Milovan Djilas once observed that the first duty of any Communist revolutionary is to destroy the political force that brought him to power and replace it with an enormous, patronage-rich bureaucracy. Castro has quietly smashed his own July 26 movement, populated by moderates, and handed to INRA...
...Argentine Communist mother, Guevara got his M.D. in Buenos Aires, then decided that "curing nations is more exciting than curing people." He turned up in Red-lining Guatemala of the early 1950s, where the man who was instructed to hire him as an inspector in the Agrarian Department remembers only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure in hand, Guevara settled down in a second-rate Guatemala City hotel, flitted in and out of the country on unexplained missions. With the Jacobo Arbenz government falling, Guevara tried to organize guerrillas to fight, then fled...
Empire Builder. In addition to banking, Guevara has grabbed off half the burgeoning National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA), which is rapidly matching the rebel army in size and importance. Its headquarters is the most tightly guarded building in Havana. As boss of INRA's industrialization division, Guevara has a free hand for revamping Cuba; last week he seized the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. His appointment as National Bank chief touched off a run on savings banks-which Guevara thought "logical," considering his "fame of being extremely radical...