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...good reasons for signing it." Cuba's two ablest home-grown rulers were the tyrants who followed Zayas. When Dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-33) snuffed out constitutional democracy, he had student and labor leaders thrown to the sharks off Morro Castle. After ex-Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista took over in 1934, he remained, both in and out of office, the dominant figure in Cuban political life until the advent of Fidel Castro...
Astonishing Question. The plot began to take shape in 1968, when one Earl J. Williamson was assigned to the American embassy in San José as a political officer. Williamson, 55, also served as CIA station chief. While he was attached to the U.S. embassy in Havana during the Batista era, he had married the vivacious niece of a wealthy Cuban sugar baron. The Williamsons moved in wealthy San José circles, where Pepe Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President...
Once in power, Armas returned the land, killed those new peasant owners who resisted, declared every union in the country illegal, and formed new ones with the help of AFL/CIO's ORIT (Interamerican Regional Lab-or Organization) and Batista's Cuban Confederation of Labor. ( Presna Libre, July 19, 1954, p. 3, cited in CRV, "Peasant and Worker Organization in Guatemala," p. 5) He promised entering foreign firms a ten-year tax holiday, and signed away oil exploitation rights for over half the land in the country. The oil law was presented to his new congress to ratify written in English...
...carrying it to an extreme. In Kyoto, Japan, last week for an anti-Communist rally, Fidel Castro's younger sister-who once helped raise funds for his revolutionary movement-could not contain her antagonisms. "It was true that the Cuban people were in miserable conditions under the Batista dictatorship," said Juanita, who has been living in Miami since defecting from Cuba in 1964, "but Castro's dictatorship has made it worse." For the sake of democracy in Cuba, she dramatically added, she would even go so far as to kill her brother...
...National Museum of Anthropology, set off by a mariachi band. The Indians and Hawaiians have improvised a pacifier for impatient queues: luscious dancing girls in native costumes. For comic relief, there is the Cuban Pavilion, festooned with love portraits of Castro and Che Guevara counterpointed by hate pictures of Batista and bloated capitalistas...