Word: castros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hemisphere, ousted Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar chartered a plane in the Dominican Republic one day last week and droned off to exile on the faraway Portuguese island of Madeira, a land full of terraced vineyards and empty of revolutionary ferment. "Too bad." grumped Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who would like to shoot Batista as a war criminal. "Batista's departure." said U.S. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White, "will contribute to the efforts of the entire American community of nations to restore calm to the Caribbean...
Batista itched to get out of the Dominican Republic almost from the day he hit there last January. A subdued and indifferent man desiring only to enjoy the $40 million plus that he stole from Cuba, Batista instead found himself sucked into anti-Castro plots by Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. A Cuban general named Jose Eleuterio Pedraza (who urged Batista to stay in Cuba and fight instead of fleeing) became Trujillo's favorite, put the bite on Batista for arms money. When Batista dragged his feet, he came in for scathing attacks in Trujillo's press (BATISTA SHOULD...
Birrell's last name off so that the industrialist, known as a Batista supporter, would not be assassinated when his plane landed in Fidel Castro's Cuba. To the delight of Brazilians, who regard avoiding taxes as a kind of fifth freedom, Ultima Horn reported that the only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these...
Next night the C46 returned, flown by Colonel José Antonio Soto, Batista's personal pilot, and carrying nine anti-Castro rebels. From near by, Castro himself happily joined the cries of "Down with Fidel!"-it was such a well-baited trap. As soon as the rifles, ammunition, hand grenades and submachine guns were unloaded, Morgan's men clapped the dumfounded invaders under arrest. In a flurry of gunfire from the plane, two of the invaders and two of Morgan's men were killed...
Triumphantly, Castro and Morgan paraded their prisoners on television in Havana. Castro bragged: "If we could have kept our plans secret for 15 days, we would have captured Trujillo and his whole army." Ominously, placards saying "To the firing squad!" appeared on buses and walls. Waldo Medina, a prosecuting attorney for the Supreme Court, called for execution of the plotters (the death sentence is legal for "counterrevolutionary activity") and accused the U.S. of egging them on. Bitterness-between Castro and Trujillo, between Castro and his victims at home-grew rapidly...