Word: castros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro made one of the most startlingly audacious speeches ever heard in a courtroom. Secretly printed and distributed throughout the island under the title La Historia Me Absolvera (History Will Absolve Me), it combined the tragic hopelessness of Daniel Webster debating the devil before a jury of condemned souls in Benet's short story, the irony of Marc Antony's appeal to the Roman mobs, and parts of the political theory of John of Salisbury, John Locke, Thomas Paine, and the Cuban national hero, Jose Marti. Had the Cuban island more significance in world affairs, Castro's 60,000 word...
...ideas materialized into specific proposals, set down for the first time at his trial. He devoted scarcely five minutes to his own defense, which his accusers had hoped would occupy most of his time. Instead he pleaded that the judges, corrupt Batista stooges, redeem themselves by following him, Fidel Castro, in overthrowing the Batista regime. He still believes in the program he outlined at that trial in 1953; it forms the ideological basis of the Revolution...
...Castro's Revolutionary...
...Castro told the judges, "There are five revolutionary laws that would have been proclaimed immediately after the capture of the Moncada barracks and would have been broadcast to the nation by radio...
...Second Revolutionary Law would have granted property...to all planters and squatters who hold parcels of less than five caballerias (166.7 acres)...and the state would indemnify the former owners over a period of ten years. (The bonds of Castro's Agrarian Reform are actually 20 year bonds...