Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asylum issue involves about 40 associates of ousted President Fulgencio Batista, the dictator who took refuge in Latin-American embassies in Havana when the Batista government fell...
...Castro fails to point out that he has been able to give Cuba its first honest government in its history ; you failed to foresee in previous stories how the ragged troops under the leadership of an "egotistic, impulsive, immature and disorganized" Castro could thoroughly beat the hell out of Batista...
...interested in power!" Yet this rebel chieftain lives by and thrives on just that. This is history repeating itself. Let us not look for the best in this man but be prepared for the worst. Castro promises much, but so did Batista...
...past him several times, and each time the huge jury in the arena would gasp 'Oh!' " Not all experienced observers had such clear eyes. Glowed the Chicago Tribune's Dubois, who could not overcome his Castro partisanship and his relief at the fall of the tyrant, Batista: "I have just had the first exclusive post-victory interview with Fidel Castro. His words rang with a tone of unmistakable sincerity, and were pronounced with the idealism that produced his outstanding leadership...
...deluged with facts," said Earl J. Johnson, general news manager of U.P.I. "We know how many people went before the firing squads in Cuba, but this may not help an individual citizen make up his mind whether Cuba is better off under Castro than under Batista. We have got to find a way to bring in also a knowledge and an understanding of the news...