Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most probably Miro's burning wish may have made him think he heard what he wanted to hear. Still, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Miro had been treated rather shabbily and that there was only one real beneficiary of the unseemly squabble: the Castro government, which, for a change, accurately reported the news on Havana radio...
Fish Meal & Cement. The Japanese are less frightened than U.S. investors by Latin America's chronic political and economic upheavals. Having learned to live at home in the shadow of Red China, they look patronizingly on Castro's menacing. The unnerving gyrations of inflated pesos and cruzeiros also do not trouble them much, since they have been through the same thing in Southeast Asia. Most of all, the Japanese sense that Latin America, which has a more substantial middle class than any of the world's other developing areas, offers the best potential export market for Japan...
...somewhat garbled book. The six selections overlap frequently and slight many important issues, but two principal messages emerge, illuminated by occasional insight and cogency. First, virtually all other words on the Cuban revolution are misleading, largely because they do not recognize or will not admit the second message, that Castro initiated and carried through not one revolution...
According to Draper, Castro's attack of July 26, 1953, on the Moncada barracks launched the first revolution, which was led from the start by upper and middle class Cubans. They organized and comprised most of the membership of the principal revolutionary organization, the 26th of July Movement. Their program was radical, but democratic, pledging the restoration of the 1940 Constitution. The armed bands in the mountains from 1957 to 1959 were neither a peasant nor a proletarian army. They never totaled more than a few hundred men, who goaded Batista into initiating a campaign of arbitrary terror that turned...
...second revolution was launch-almost immediately upon Castro's coming to power. Draper classifies it as a member of the Communist family of revolutions, since it turned against the middle class democrats who had overthrown Batista and began to regiment the proletariat and peasantry. It proceeded so far during Castro's first year in power that the Hubert Matos affair late in 1959 signaled the "point of no return...