Word: batista
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...must be realized that the influence of the Soviet Union in Cuba was brought about by the inaction of our government. The original plan of the revolution had been to overthrow Batista and to carry out land reform. Nothing more. As soon as these things were accomplished, Castro came to the U.S. for aid. It was refused. With most of the peasants of Cuba starving, Castro had no choice but to take over many of the American owned factories and plantations. Also, he had no choice but to turn to the U.S.S.R. for economic aid. I repeat; Cuba turned...
Despite Castro's boast at the U.N. and elsewhere that he has reduced unemployment, some 700,000 workers are jobless, precisely the number under Batista. Downtown Havana's Galiano and Obispo streets are spotted with unemployed trying to peddle combs, hats, cigarettes, small leather goods. Those who have jobs face rugged taxation, even at the lowest unskilled wage level; a 3% income tax, a 4% "voluntary contribution" for industrialization, plus social security, union dues, and one-shot pass-the-hat campaigns cut the average worker's take-home...
...Fidel Castro's Armed Forces Ministry one day last week came a high-pitched communiqué. An invasion force, said the ministry, landed on the north shore of Oriente province and was engaged by the militia. In the fight Invasion Leader Armentino Feria, described as a follower of Batista Gangster Rolando Masferrer, was killed. Captured, according to the communiqué, were two of his men, plus a U.S. flag, a U.S. Army manual, a U.S. Army uniform, seven U.S. carbines and three muleloads of ammunition. The remaining invaders, totaling 24 men, escaped to the hills. Inevitably the ministry charged...
...United States has become identified with Batista and the forces against social reform in Cuba, Einaudi warned. Such mistakes as supplying arms to the Batista government--arms which were used against the revolutionaries--have made it easy for Cubans to believe Castro's talk of "Yankee colonalism...
...Digest. Aware that such a move was imminent, TIME production managers had already made emergency printing arrangements with the Atlanta firm of W. R. Bean & Son (which was used to such emergencies: it printed TIME'S Latin American edition 24 times in 1958 when Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista shut down the Havana plant in displeasure at TIME coverage of his regime...