Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that my arrest has been a "big headache" for the U.S. State Department because "Latin Americans . . . would unfailingly interpret it as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista." If the policy which seems to have dictated my arrest is continued, however, this "headache" will prove indeed to be a very minor one-not only for the State Department, but for the American people. They may awake one day to realize that the support of corrupt, bloody and hated dictators like Batista, who ran on a Communist "popular front" in 1940, supported a Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with...
Unprecedented as it was to arrest a former chief of state and then to put him under heavy bond besides, there was little doubt that Prío had openly courted trouble. Ever since Dictator Fulgencio Batista booted him out of Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...
Like a professor about to give a student his lessons, he handed me a long paper entitled "Agenda" and said crisply:"Read it." Subheadings spoke of the situation before Batista's coup in March 1952, the situation since then, and "solutions." When I said I had really come to ask about the solutions, the professorial attitude fell away and he laughed. He talked tensely, his brown eyes darting, his hands in constant movement. "Since the electoral solution looks impossible," he said, "we must adopt a revolutionary solution. This will lead to a restoration of constitutional government and the full...
...control secret armed combat units, and he himself moves about the country helping to organize and train them. (The day before, I learned later, he had been in western Pinar del Rio.) I asked whether these units could stand off the army. "Do not believe the army is with Batista," he said. "It is run now by a handful of Batista officers, but in the end we can be sure of the loyalty of the greater part of the army...