Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro's obsession is absolute mastery over his Red island. When things do not go as he wants them to, the result is uncontrolled fury. Two weeks ago Castro stormed into Cuba's Supreme Court chambers as a "witness" in a trial that he felt had not been handled...
...case in point involved a longstanding, half-hidden dispute between Cuba's Communist old guard and Castro's newer crowd. It centered around Marcos Armando Rodriguez, who, although only 26, was a member of the old guard (he started early). At the beginning of Castro's revolution, Rodriguez had little to do with Fidel and was accused of informing against four of Fidel's allies. After living abroad for years, Rodriguez was virtually ordered back to Cuba by Castro's men, placed on trial on the old charges last month. But during the trial, damaging...
...fingered by "Witness" Castro were the editor of the newspaper Revolucion and the vice minister of the armed forces. The editor lost his job, and the vice minister obediently made a public breast-beating confession of his errors. To Castrologists, all this meant that Castro was making sure that the old-guard Communists knew who was boss...
...told the Latin American Association that Castro's support has dwindled to less than five per cent of the Cuban people, and that most of his backers are former Batistites. Ray predicted that internal opposition to Castro would become active within two or three months...
...Castro's early supporters feel that they must start fighting again," he said, "in order to defeat a man who seeks power merely for the pleasure of using it against others...