Word: cardona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhat sooner than expected, Fidel Castro last week took over direct control of the Cuban government. Premier Jose Miro Cardona resigned, along with his Cabinet. Assuming the premiership. Castro quit as commander of the armed forces, giving that job to his ice-eyed brother Raul...
...inevitability about last week's changes, but their suddenness was caused by a moral crisis. The government was at loggerheads over Cuba's tourist-trapping casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia, Premier Miro Cardona and the Cabinet backed him up. But Castro's stand on principle dissolved in the face of the rapidly falling foreign exchange (it is now possible to fire a .45 down any hall of the Havana Hilton without hitting even a mouse) and of the jobless and strike-minded workers...
...Havana the Urrutia-Miró Cardona team labored in all-night Cabinet meetings to cope with a wave of strikes. Dictator Fulgencio Batista kept Cuba's unions close-reined, and they stuck with him to the end. Now freed from restraint and wooed by Communists and Castro, they are demanding sweeping concessions...
...week's end Miró Cardona persuaded Castro to take notice of the sugar threat. Castro asked the workers "not to create problems by striking now." But he added that the "sugar magnates" obviously brought on the strikes themselves because they know Cuba needs a successful harvest this year. "They have us at a disadvantage," he snapped...
...pattern of division was enough to make a Communist exult. Said Red Leader Anibal Escalante: "The dynamic forces of the revolution will sweep away conservatives like Miró Cardona...