Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Sigmund rightly points out the contradictions in the way the word "socialist" is used by the nationalists. By attaching it to everything from the tepid land reform of Bourguiba in Tunisia to the social revolution of Castro they have turned it into a rather empty epithet...
This type of anti-Castroism, directed "against the totalitarian deviations" of the Cuba regime, is prevalent in Venezuela, Costa Rica, and perhaps Mexico, Boersner stated, where "the Castro movement plays neither a revolutionary nor a progressive role...
...reactionary regimes of Latin America, on the other hand, "generate an anti-Castroism protesting the social reforms of the Cuban government," Boersner said, and termed this illiberal sentiment "easily as bad as the evil it claims to be fighting." Under these governments, which oppose social change, "Castro propaganda is bound to be effective," the journalist warned...
While deploring the "ambiguous attitude" of the U.S. government toward the new Cuban government after the fall of Batista, Boersner noted that Latin Americans were unsatisfied with the totalitarian system Castro offered...
...Above all, we blame Castro and his followers for not admitting that every Latin American country should work out its problems in its own way," said Boersner, a member of Romulo Betancourt's governing Accion Democratica party...