Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba remains the bone in the U.S. throat. The U.S. is committed to a relatively inactive policy of trying to isolate Castro from foreign trade. The embargo is not working perfectly by any means, for Britain recently made a trade deal with the Communist dictator. And last week while Castro was in Moscow, a new Soviet-Cuban trade agreement was announced. In return for the favor, Castro promised to sign the atomic test ban treaty. All the while, he continues to try to export his revolution to other Latin American countries...
...problems. The government, backed by the military, which threw out the previous freely elected President, has strong nationalistic leanings-some State Department officials are worried that the country could turn to isolationism. The party of exiled Dictator Juan Perón is still a force, but the strength of Castro Communism has declined...
...Bolivia has a liberal, anti-Communist government that gets heavy U.S. aid to ease the threat of a tough Communist Party movement well-stocked with Castro-trained saboteurs...
...Ecuador's military leaders last year ousted liquor-loaded President Carlos Arosemena, now promise free elections in 1965. The government is friendly to the U.S., recently headed off a blooming Castro-Communist movement...
...Venezuela's powerful President Rómulo Betancourt, one of the U.S.'s finest friends, steps out of power this year. He will be replaced by Raúl Leoni, who was elected last fall despite vicious terrorist tactics of Castro Communists. Venezuela is one of Latin America's most progressive democratic countries, but the U.S. is worried that Leoni may prove to be not so strong as Betancourt...