Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Castro...allowed the fishing boats to proceed into our waters and thus created an incident that would give him an excuse to focus world attention on Guantanamo by cutting off its water supply. His denials are refuted by monitored radio messages between the boats and Havana and President Dortico's broadcast announcing claims to the base at a time 'convenient' to Cuba...
...Officials let it be known that they were inclined to doubt the theory that Premier Fidel Castro had provoked them into seizing four Cuban fishing boats to justify a series of actions against the United States naval base at Guantanamo...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Andrews plays a sportsman discovered by Castro's cops in Cuban waters and sentenced to die for sabotage. Color...
...treatment of Castro's rise to power and the United States' Cuban policy is probably one of the best in print. Yet some passages suffer from an almost-doctrinaire leftist approach. This orientation leads to simplifications which are, at the very least, unrealistic. For example, in his discussion of American involvement in the the invasion of Guatemala in 1954, Shapiro calls the overthrown Arbenz regime the best one the Guatemalan peasants had ever seen; he ignores almost entirely the torture and terror that, as other studies have revealed, stemmed from the growing Com- munist influence over Arbenz. Perhaps the most...
...emotions brewing in Latin America came in 1958, when Vice President Richard Nixon was nearly killed under a rain of saliva, stones and sticks during a visit to Caracas. The U.S. was shocked, frightened, incredulous at such fierce hatred from a supposedly Good Neighbor. A few months later, Fidel Castro and his followers swept out of the hills of Oriente province in Cuba and overthrew the cruel regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. No sooner had he taken over than Castro turned dictator himself, began slaughtering those who had opposed him. Even in his scurrilous attacks on the U.S., Castro became...