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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro ignored him. That night on TV, his favorite medium for lecturing the country, Castro said in a four-hour harangue that he had differences with Urrutia that were both "moral and civic." For a starter, Urrutia was drawing "exactly the same salary as Batista" ($10,000 a month), while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Strongman Speaks | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Sobs at the Palace. As Castro's tirade roared on, now comprehensible, now incoherent, Urrutia watched a television set in his wife's sitting room at the palace. His face was ashen, and his right cheek twitched nervously as Castro's high-pitched voice filled the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Strongman Speaks | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

The new President of Cuba had already been picked that afternoon at a secret meeting in Havana's Camp Liberty, with no civilian ministers present. Castro and the band of leftists and Communist-liners who hold down all of the top army jobs vetoed two leading choices as too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Strongman Speaks | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

"The Chinese people and the Latin American people," said Peking's Mayor Peng Chen at a January rally in honor of Mexico's visiting ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, "have common aspirations and interests in the just struggle against imperialism." More and more, with all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Peking Calling | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

*Out of some 88,000 Chinese in all Latin America. The U.S. Chinese community numbers 117,000, Canada 44,000.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Peking Calling | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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