Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main danger of Cuba is not the presence of a few thousand Russian soldiers, but the sponsoring of subversive activities in Latin America," Demitrio Boersner said Friday. The Venezuelan journalist for La Republica said in a CRIMSON interview that economic sanctions against the Castro regime are the best policy as long as Castro continues his hostile course...
...Venezuela's old-line military officers nervous enough about Betancourt's inability to keep order to do the job for them. But Betancourt made peace with his soldiers, and out in the countryside, peasants who elected him President loyally helped the government hunt down the guerrillas. Fidel Castro's Havana radio still cries daily for violent revolution. But the campaign has dwindled to desperate terrorist raids and publicity stunts like the hijacking of the freighter Anzoátegui (see next story...
...head and I personally have taken a position toward the Communist regime in Havana and toward international Communism that is free of equivocation, half-tones, or balancing on a tightrope." During the Cuba missile crisis, Venezuela contributed two destroyers to the U.S. blockade and approved the use of anti-Castro armed action, if necessary...
...opportunity for in-depth analysis. Niebuhr, comparing Nazism and Communism, concluded that "Communism is infinitely more dangerous" because it is "a frightful simplification of the Messianic dreams which have haunted Western civilization for ages," sometimes with "frightful results." Foreign Policy Analyst Theodore Draper did a detailed study of Castro's Cuba, decided that "Fidel's ego may give the Communists as much trouble as it has given many others." China Expert Valentin Chu discovered enough evidence of widespread famine in Red China for a 7,500-word article that was reprinted in six languages...
Rodolfo Jose Cardenas, a young leader of the Venezuelan Christian Democratic Party, last night attributed recent guerrilla disturbances and sabotage in Venezuela to extremists and Castro elements "who do not have popular support." He said that social progress and the land reform program had helped undercut extremists throughout the country...