Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago we were served with Castro as a good guy. He had a beard, lived in the hills and headed a people's revolt. Given his head, that character carried the plot into a Red sunset...
Lisa's next target was Fidel Castro. For nearly a year she wrote to him through neutral embassies, slipped a letter to Fidel into the hands of Anastas Mikoyan, and persuaded miscellaneous ministers and ambassadors to ask Castro to see her. Finally her friend Alex Quaison-Sackey, Ghanaian Ambassador to Cuba and the U.N., helped get Lisa a visa. She stayed in Cuba four weeks, kept pelleting Castro with the pleas of her contacts. Castro succumbed, spent eight hours talking privately with her, and recorded a 40-minute interview after that...
Richard Derham '62, who also contributed to the first issue of the magazine, covers the problems of Cuba with similar originality. Derham points out that the Kennedy Administration is officially committed to the eventual elimination of the Castro regime but is currently not doing anything to bring about that elimination. He mentions closing American ports to ships of nations carrying "a substantial part of the Cuban trade," economic blockade, and aid to guerrilla refugee groups capable of returning to Cuba and leading a guerrilla war as examples to prove that there are "workable alternatives to our present 'do nothing' policy...
...difficult to argue with this position, since whether or not Castro ought to be "brought down" has passed from there realm of those things we know through reason to that of those we know through faith. Consistency, in any event, has never been the greatest virtue of Kennedy's Cuban policies...
With regard to the problem which U.S. Latin American policy currently emphasizes, however, Derham is much weaker. He admits that the elimination of Castro from Cuba will not necessarily prevent the rise of Communist governments or revolutions in other Central and South American countries, announces that the Alliance for Progress is not going to do so either. The only suggestion he makes, however, is that military aid, with emphasis on anti-insurgency operations, be increased...