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...Morro Castle that several prisoners fell sick. Doctors among the prisoners set up a makeshift dispensary in a dungeon once used by Spaniards for garrote executions; other prisoners held in a dry moat outside dug holes in the ground with shovels for makeshift toilets. In Havana's huge Blanquita Theater, the militia used dogs to guard 5,000 men and women. The dogs panicked the prisoners, and the militia fired into the crowd, wounding two. After the initial wave of 30 executions in the invasion's first 48 hours, the regime stopped issuing bulletins-but did not stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Outward Bound | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...Havana's cavernous Blanquita Theater, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara stood calmly before the intense delegates to the First Latin American Youth Congress and waited for the clamor to still. Then he ex plained the Cuban revolution with uncompromising clarity. "What is its ideology? If I were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro's Brain | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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