Word: castroland
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...usual in Castroland, the prosecutor explained that the CIA was behind it all. And as usual with show trials everywhere, the defendant agreed with every word...
...Fidel Castro's Cuba, Miami seems like a home away from home-at least the way home used to be. In addition to its sunny climate and palm trees, an abundance of Havana-style restaurants and Spanish-speaking radio stations, Miami boasts the largest concentration of Cubans outside Castroland. About 180,000 refugees-two-thirds of the total-have settled there since 1959 and have quickly adapted to Yanqui ways. They are generally law-abiding and hardworking. The city's unemployment rate is down from a high of 12% in 1962 to 4.7%, and only 13,000 Cubans...
...problem: getting home. No nation in the Western hemisphere seemed willing to let them fly in direct from Cuba, and after a trying month of delay they were forced to take a plane to Madrid. There, at last, a few of them seemed to have second thoughts about Castroland. Clinton M. Jencks, 19, a psychology student at San Francisco State College, had his Castro-style beard shaved off and frankly declared that he was disillusioned with Cuba and that he had "had it." Later, subjected to the scorn of his fellow travelers, he denied the statement. Most of the other...
...still has diplomatic relations with Cuba, and an estimated 1,000 Bolivian workers went to Cuba last year; some 400 are still there. Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick to fly to Mexico, where the Cuban embassy issued a visa on a slip of paper. No telltale stamp marred the passports. Now the Mexicans stamp passports "Salio a Cuba" in bold letters. But, of course, passports can be conveniently "lost...
...enough? At the United Nations and elsewhere, U.S. negotiations aimed at achieving on-site inspection in Cuba have still come to nothing. Yet, as Kennedy has repeatedly said, such inspection is the only way the U.S. can really be sure that Russia has removed its offensive weapons from Castroland. Moreover, intelligence reports from Cuba insisted that Russian troops in division strength were still in Cuba, now helping Castro to build up his defenses by extending airstrips, constructing underground bunker systems, gasoline and munitions depots and camouflage networks for MIG-17 and MIG-21 jet fighters. The construction of facilities...