Word: camaguey
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...Everyone in Cuba is bitter," said one young mother from Camaguey, who arrived in Miami last week. "There isn't much food, rice is rationed, and you have to stand in line every day for coffee. Cuba is a jail." Added her husband, a former railroad shop foreman: "They don't give you work if you are not with the government, and if you are with the government, you have to cut sugar cane, join the militia and stand guard." Cubans who decide to leave lose everything. Those in nonessential jobs are summarily fired, and must sign over...
...Fidel Castro expropriated Cuban enterprises that were wholly or largely owned by U.S. citizens. On that very day, in the port of Santa Maria, a ship was being loaded with sugar that had been produced by one of the expropriated companies, Compania Azucarera de Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, otherwise known as C.A.V. That white cargo set off on a four-year cruise through the U.S. courts...
...fourth raid on Cuba in less than a month. In the first, a plane strafed and bombed a sugarmill in Camaguey province. Three nights later, the Castro government complained, a lone bomber, lights out and engines feathered, coasted over the southern coastal town of Casilda. Parachuting a yellow flare to light up the target, it launched three rockets at the town's oil storage tanks, setting fire to a railroad tank car. In another night attack, two landing craft slipped up the Santa Lucia estuary to the heavily guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore...
Matos had fought alongside Castro in the mountains and after the victory was assigned the military leadership of Camaguey province. In October, 1959, he resigned to protest Communists replacing 26th of July members in leading local government jobs and in the rebel army. Matos was arrested, charged with treason, tried, and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment...
...Much Left? The meat shortage is a good example of Castro's reckless ways and the later reckoning. Seizing the great cattle ranches of Camaguey province, the "Texas of Cuba," Castro's men slaughtered breeding cattle by the thousands to show Cubans what a good life the revolution had brought. Before long, the herds were decimated. Fortnight ago, Castro ordered a count to see how many cattle were left, and last week called a national conference to ponder "production deficiencies...