Word: batista
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Hitler had his Goebbels and Castro his José Pardo Llada. If there was one sure thing about Pardo Llada, Castro's favorite and most poisonous radio commentator, it was that he was Cuba's No. 1 opportunist. At the last possible moment, he switched from Batista's to Castro's side, and the venom he once, in Batista's pay, directed against Castro was now directed in Castro's pay against Batista. Last week he announced another switch in loyalties. He turned up at a Mexico City press conference, a defector from Castro...
...collective action is not now feasible, what else can the U.S. do to arrest the Communist dominance of Cuba? The air was thick last week with rumors that Kennedy is about to do what he talked of doing during last fall's campaign: attempting "to strengthen the non-Batista democratic forces in exile and in Cuba itself." Mexican officials privately (and unhappily) fear that the U.S. may be planning to give massive support to an invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles. As proof, those who predict an invasion pointed to last week's meeting at Manhattan...
...Palm Beach neighbor and friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss in carrying out their neutral chore of representing the ambassador-less U.S. in Castro's Cuba. Republican Smith at last got the hint, gracefully withdrew his name...
...more than a year after he was demobilized from Dictator Fulgencio Batista's defeated army in 1959, skinny Rafael Saavedra supported himself by selling fruit and newspapers in the streets of the city of Santa Clara. In July 1960 he finally found steady work gassing and washing planes for a crop-dusting company at Santa Clara airport. He also found a friend, Ground Crewman Félix Montano Echevarria, 26. Together they dreamed of escaping to freedom and prosperity in the U.S., and Félix, who was taking flying lessons, thought he knew...
...Castro himself once did, the Escambray rebels generally rely on standard guerrilla tactics: present no solid front, hit where unexpected, and vanish. In response, Castro has resorted to tactics very like those Batista used against him. Castro gradually pulled his regular troops out of the Escambray because they can't be relied on to fight old comrades-in-arms. In place of the regulars, Castro sent in militiamen, who cautiously refrained from going into the brush, and at night retired from the hills for safety...