Word: batista
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed to recognize anti-imperialism as a key element in Latin American politics, one that crosses even the sharpest of class boundaries. One of the last countries in the hemisphere to achieve independence from the Spanish, Cuba remained under American political protectorateship until 1948. The final years of the Batista dictatorship were marked by high-volume American investment and advice...
...have been the most exciting and liberating for the world. Whole empires have fallen, new nations been created, people taken charge of their own lives. What Reagan meant is that all those little ss in the U.N. have been beating up on us for 40 years -- us, Somoza, us, Batista, us, Marcos. We've got to redefine...
...Revolution shuffles through its 29th year, many Cubans are surprisingly ready to voice, however quietly, their impatience with a system that still seems stranded in its noisy infancy. Almost no one would deny that health and education, both free, have improved considerably since the days of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Grinding poverty has been erased. Drugs and prostitution, which flourished when the place was a raffish offshore playground for Americans, have now gone underground. But in the face of those advances, the man in the Havana street is still unable to speak or travel as he pleases. Money is more than...
...genuine Cuban air hero. Born 48 years ago in Pinar del Rio province, where his father owned several movie theaters, Del Pino as a teenager attended Harrison Chilhowee Baptist Academy in Seymour, Tenn., then returned to Cuba. At 14, he was arrested for demonstrating against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. In the late 1950s, he joined Castro's revolutionaries...
After Castro overthrew the Batista regime, Del Pino learned to fly. Piloting a tiny T-33 trainer during the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Del Pino shot down two U.S. B-26 bombers. The exploit, recounted in his 1969 book Dawn at the Bay of Pigs, made him a legend. He rose rapidly through the ranks and, in 1975, became a first commander. He was trained in the Soviet Union at the Yuri Gagarin Aviation College. As of last week, however, Del Pino was anything but admired by Cuba's Communist rulers. Characterizing his defection as "strange...