Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro has indefinitely put off the restoration of democracy-elections, a Congress, civil justice-pending a deep-surgery social revolution that he has had in mind for half a dozen years. He spoke little of this kind of revolution during his anti-Batista fight, which was financed by rich and professional Cubans sick of dictatorship. But the revolution is now plainly aimed at soaking the rich-business and landlords-and at favoring peasants (who helped Castro's war) and labor (which sat on its hands). Actions...
...Execution of 493 "war criminals," mostly Batista cops and soldiers. Last week a firing squad executed a marijuana peddler as a "social benefit." Castro says illegal gambling, misappropriation of government funds and counter-revolutionary activities (effective political opposition) could bring the same penalty. Total effect is to make opposition to Castro by speech or writing seem at least imprudent...
...Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...
...major Communist achievement: the execution last month of Captain José Castaño Quevedo, assistant head of Batista's Bureau for Communist Repression who had compiled a big card file of Cuban Communists and their activities. The file has disappeared...
...Robert Nye, 32, of Whiting, Ind., this week faced a three-man revolutionary tribunal in Havana and pleaded not guilty to a charge of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro. The Korean war pilot (U.S. Navy) heard the prosecution charge that he was brought to Cuba last December by Dictator Batista's Chief of Staff, given a telescopic-sighted rifle, sent into the hills to hunt down Castro for $100,000. Nye said that he accepted the assignment only as a means of joining Castro's rebel army. The verdict was guilty and the sentence death by firing squad...