Word: batista
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...everybody. Fumed a Santiago businessman: "The people here who were Fidel's best friends are working against him now, just like they worked against Batista. A man slaves like a dog to build up a piece of land, and now they take it and give it to somebody else. And if you talk too much, they'll knock your...
...Rebel Colors. Along the road, the mementos of war abound: a concrete monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...
...Cuba, thwarted expectations of poilitical liberty helped Fidel Castro to topple Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Yet last week, some Cubans were already beginning to suspect that their aspirations toward freedom, law and a better life may not come true...
...results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about $12 million of it in U.S. companies...
...decrees, the conduct of some of his men and the course of his government. Castro soldiers careen about the city in Jeeps with guns in their belts and girls at their sides. Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro is living in a $220,000 mansion confiscated from a crony of Batista...