Word: aguero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero, an old pal of the boss but also a shrewd politico with ideas of his own. A onetime plowboy who became a topflight lawyer, Rivero professes strong loyalty to Batista but obviously plans to campaign as a Great Compromiser, appealing to the majority that is fed up with both sides. Said he: "If I am elected President I will immediately ask Congress for a general political amnesty." He made it clear that this would apply to Castro. The rebels' reply was a renewed pledge to boycott the elections-and renewed violence. They set bombs...
...mecca for vice. It even goes to the extreme of presenting an honest missionary (Jean Simmons) who, influenced by what she sees here, gets drunk and passes out on a strange potion from a coconut shell in the midst of an atmosphere of scandal and prostitution." Luis Conte Aguero, Diario Nacional columnist, harking back to an earlier assault on Havana's morals, put it differently: "There is a lot of truth in the story, but there are also a lot of false statements, and what is definitely false, and what is irritating, is the intention to picture...
...Havana has plenty of unrestrained gaiety. And it is well known that the government believes in reasonable toleration of vice rather than puritanical suppression, which might bring more unemployment, a fall in tourist trade and a drop in the hard-working policeman's extracurricular income. But, as Conte Aguero summed it up: "Some tourists look for beautiful vistas and historic sites, while others seek brothels and adventure anywhere they go. These last-named bury themselves in bawdyhouses, which exist here as elsewhere, and think that all Havana is the same as the tiny den to which their desire...
...Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally in central Cuba, "literally fought his way . . . through a sea of admirers." Snorted El Mundo's Editor Raoul Alfonso Gonse...