Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city hall of Santiago de Cuba one morning last week, 200 well-dressed women rhythmically chanted: "Freedom! Freedom!" Then, as U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith listened from an office where he was getting the keys to the city, the cry changed to screams for help. Outside, Dictator Fulgencio Batista's police rushed the demonstrators, twisted arms, carted many off to jail. A fire truck was moved up, began pumping streams of water at the women, supporters of Rebel Fidel Castro's revolutionaries holed up in the nearby Sierra Maestra...
...towering (6 ft. 5 in.) Ambassador Smith left the building, he waved to the women, who broke into the Cuban national anthem. Banners appeared, reading: "Stop supplies of arms to Batista." Police ripped the banners from their bearers. Later, obviously shaken by the police brutality, Smith issued a public statement: "I deeply regret that my presence in Santiago de Cuba may have been the cause of public demonstrations." But, requesting the release of those arrested, he added: "Any form of excessive police action is abhorrent...
Seasick Invasion. In the mountains near Mexico City, Castro set up a military training camp, held meetings with sympathetic Cuban business and professional men, who apparently dismissed his land-reforming, anti-business attitudes as youthful radicalism. It was agreed that once Batista was ousted, the businessmen would take over, rule Cuba for two years, hold free elections. Last December Castro landed a force of 82 seasick men in Oriente, set up headquarters in the Sierra Maestra. Castro knows that he cannot win merely by avoiding capture. But he does want to become a symbol of opposition that will attract...
When Rebel Leader Fidel 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...
...heavily guarded palace in Havana, Batista looked tired but confident. Still backed by the army, he could count on a good sugar crop to keep the island's economy on an even keel. But as long as Castro remained free to fight and sabotage, Batista's regime would obviously be in danger...