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...atmosphere in Cuba is just like it was in November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to ordinary people and set the island alight with a curious kind of spontaneous, uncoordinated, often futile combustion. So wide and so fast did it spread that the exile leaders plotting against Castro in Miami and Manhattan lagged far behind...
With the same weapons that made life unbearable for Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's new revolutionaries are setting out to make nightmares for the new dictator. Not a day passes without a bomb explosion in Havana-a grenade tossed inside the Capitol Building, a Molotov cocktail splashed against a government Jeep. One night last week bombs exploded in a water main, a power transformer, a government-operated filling station, several shops...
...spreading resistance represented no major threat to the Castro regime as yet. But as the opposition began to take organized form, it led Castro, like Batista before him, into the usual dictator's mistake of counterterror. Last week there were reliable reports that a Castro cop, in a moment of rage, killed a 14-year-old involved in the opposition. Just such brutality had mobilized an indifferent Cuban public against Batista; the opposition plainly intended to provoke Castro into the same error...
...third time old (76) Pérez Serantes had spoken out to lead the Cuban church against Castro as once he led it for Castro. Seven years ago, after the unsuccessful July 26 assault on Moncada Barracks, the courageous churchman had gone into the hills to plead with Batista's executioners to spare the life of a young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University, and 100 Jesuit priests. Supporting...
...understand the Cuban revolution, and to understand what kind of a "challenge" it really presents, requires that we stop thinking of world problems solely in terms of our benefits. It seems strange to expect Castro or the Cuban people to honor the economic agreements and deals made by Batista, whom the overwhelming majority of Cubans abhorred. The American companies were, and were seen as, comrades of Batista's tyranny. If we forget that Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans, we cannot expect the Cuban people to do likewise. For the first time in sixty years, the Cuban people are free; only...