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...Communist Party and usually regarded as the No. 1 Communist in Cuba. The son of a Manzanillo shoe-factory worker. Roca became secretary general of the Cuban Communist Party in 1934, a post that he has held ever since. In 1938, at a secret meeting with Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Roca agreed to a Batista-Communist alliance (assuring legality for the party in return for organizing a pro-Batista labor movement) that lasted until 1954 when Batista bowed to U.S. pressure and outlawed the party. Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold the party apparatus together in Havana, rose to power again with...
...president of the vitally important Agrarian Reform Institute. Fond of good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words were Rodríguez...
Haiti exemplifies the dilemma of the Alliance, and illustrates the real applicability of the Cuban example. If it is too late to heed the advice of Earl E. T. Smith and Arthur Gardner, two former Ambassadors to Cuba who urged that his country help its "good friend" Batista, restitution is being made in Haiti. There, U.S. support of Duvalier props up a hated dictatorship, suppressing five million people by secret-police terror and open violence. Duvalier has ignored the Constitution and dispensed with free elections. Still, one-third of his budget comes from the United States, and his personal army...
...those who line up on the side of change in Haiti will have five million good reasons to feel confident. Those who oppose it by upholding Duvalier in the name of progress have misread the lessons of Cuba. Duvalier is every bit as good a friend as Fulgencio Batista. And he will leave us with enemies as resentful and recalcitrant as Fidel Castro...
...Orleans. But the vast majority prefer to stick together in Miami, even if it means privation. The climate, they point out, is similar to Cuba's-and, looking toward the happy day when Fidel Castro is gone, Miami will be only a short distance from home. Says Laureano Batista Falla, president of the exiled Christian Democratic Party: "What distinguishes them from other refugees that have to come to the United States is that they are here to fight to go back. They did not come here to settle down and live comfortably. Many of them could still be perfectly...