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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Province in Revolt | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Barrera, who led an unsuccessful anti-Castro campaign 4½ months ago, went back with the certain knowledge that the odds had grown even worse. Against him now are most of the 1,798,000 people who live in Netherlands-size Oriente province and its capital, Santiago de Cuba. Santiago professional men shelter Castro's couriers in their homes, support the rebels by buying $5, $10 and $100 "bonds." Among workingmen, there is a brisk trade in $1 bonds. Businessmen arrange shipments of supplies to Castro. When the government reportedly purchased five rebel-tracking bloodhounds, Oriente resistance members scornfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Province in Revolt | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Militarily, Barrera is hampered by too few men for too large an area. As a helicopter fruitlessly scanned the mist-shrouded mountains last week, Barrera was asked how long it might take to finish Castro. "Sooner or later," he answered wearily, "we will capture them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Province in Revolt | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Spain and Mexico were matched at Cesta Punto (considered the purest pelota form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pelota's World Series | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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