Word: cabana
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...horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front of his home in Cerro (Havana...
...open secret," said Octavio Seigle, fingering a neat butterfly tie, "that opponents of the government who disappear from Havana are taken to the Cabana fortress next to Morro Castle, and fed to the man-eating sharks of the harbor...