Word: camag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuban revolution turned on one of its own fighting heroes last week. Major Huber Matos, former commander of Camagüey Province, stood accused before a rebel tribunal of what Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro called "the dirty business of anti-Communism." But Matos, who was jailed after he quit the army charging Red infiltration, managed to turn the force of the trial against Fidel Castro's leftist dictatorship...
Death Penalty. As in any army-run country, there is fear. The big ranches of central, cattle-raising Camagüey province have been seized by the army, pending expropriation by the Agrarian Reform Institute. At a seized ranch, a guajiro showed up one morning last week and told the landowner that he was joining the soldiers as "administrator" of the land. "I'll be moving my family into the main house," he added...
Racing ahead of his land-reform timetable, Fidel Castro last week began grabbing cattle land, literally with a vengeance. The Prime Minister flew into Camagüey, Cuba's range country, and issued an order "intervening," i.e., putting under government control, all cattle ranches larger than 3,316 acres (25,000 acres of it owned by Texas' King Ranch). Armed soldiers in twos and threes marched into 400 ranches and took over 2,345,340 acres. As soon as the Red-tinged Agrarian Reform Institute can calculate what part of each ranch the owners will have to give...
Toward the end of 1958, the rebels began moving west. Ex-Dishwasher Camilo Cienfuegos marched a column into the hills of Camagŭey. In December the rebels launched a "battle for Santa Clara"-a city of 150,000 in Las Villas. A column led by Che Guevara quickly took the streets, the Batista army as quickly retreated to its fortress post, and in five days of shooting 60 died...
...mines, source of 11 % of the free world's nickel, are out of production: last week government bombers, aiming for the rebels, instead hit Nicaro warehouses containing $500,000 worth of machinery. The sugar crop. Cuba's economic lifeblood. 75% of which comes from rebel-saturated Oriente. Camagüey and Las Villas provinces, is largely in Castro's hands, as the January harvest approaches...