Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since 1960, the U.S. has been putting an economic squeeze on Communist Cuba with what amounts to an unofficial trade embargo. Free world nations are urged not to do business with Castro, and all vessels in Cuban trade are blacklisted from picking up U.S. Government-financed cargo. So far, 196 vessels are on the forbidden list; free world trade has skidded from $1.3 billion in 1959 to less than $300 million last year, leaving Castro almost totally dependent on his Iron Curtain friends. But last week Great Britain knocked a hole in the embargo big enough to drive...
...Havana, Britain's Leyland Motor Co. Ltd. signed up to sell 400 heavy 45-passenger buses for $10 million plus $1,100,000 worth of spare parts. The company gave Castro five years to pay, threw in an option for another 1,000 buses and agreed to train whatever mechanics were needed. To get around the shipping blacklist, Leyland first asked the British government for the loan of an aircraft carrier; when that request was ignored, the company announced that East German freighters would handle the order...
...itself, the Leyland sale will give Cuba little more than a temporary shot in the arm. Nevertheless, the U.S. was visibly annoyed at the sight of a British company racing to Castro's rescue. "It certainly does not help in our effort to isolate the Castro regime," said a State Department official bitterly. But there was little that the U.S. could do about...
Matter of Surplus. The British seemed to wonder what the U.S. was so upset about. Approved by the government as a straight commercial venture, the sale was treated as if it had no cold war overtones. Leyland had sold hundreds of buses to Cuba before Castro, and was now only resuming relations with an old customer. "I am sorry the U.S. disapproves," said Leyland's Managing Director Donald Stokes, "but this is an English company doing a deal with Cuba. I have no knowledge of having to go to America for permission to sell buses." Besides...
Figueres dismissed the claim that the current agitation was due to the influence of Fidel Castro and said that there had been anti-American feeling in Panama fifty years before Castro. Such friction resulted from the identification of American interests with the Panamaian ruling class, he said, but the situation had been improved under the Alliance for Progress...