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Word: caballo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karol found el Caballo-"the Horse," as the peasants affectionately refer to Castro-personally vibrant. "Fidel finds it difficult to sit still while he speaks. He moves about all the time, gets up, takes a few steps, sits down, stalks back and forth as if every argument were a kind of hand-to-hand struggle with a wily opponent." Castro has spent altogether too much time serving as a national ombudsman, Karol complains, forever touring the country and leaving the government to bureaucrats. "The new proletarian class," reports Karol acidly, "is quite unable to control and use the bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Mortgaged Island | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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