Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration tell it. it was all out of the goodness of the American citizens' heart. Except for the sentimental support of such as Jack and Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. Government was playing no part whatever in the deal to pay ransom to Cuba's Fidel Castro...
Agreement. All this was part of the $53 million tribute that the U.S. was prepared to turn over to Castro for the return of the 1,113 Cubans who were captured in April 1961 during the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Toward last week's end. New York Attorney James B. Donovan-who had been coordinating his negotiations for the prisoners' release with Bobby Kennedy-announced that he had finally gotten the unpredictable dictator at long last to sign an agreement. The terms: a freighter, carrying a cargo of drugs, would sail for Havana; the Bay of Pigs...
...feels a moral obligation to the prisoners: he made the decision that sent them to the Bay of Pigs; he also denied them the air cover that might have given them a chance. But there remained even more basic problems of principle. Should the U.S. pay ransom to sustain Castro's Communist regime? And if so. should it be done with such look-folks-no-hands clan-destineness...
...Fidel Castro is uncharacteristically silent these days. So is little brother Raul. But it is hard to keep them all quiet in Cuba's talky regime. To a correspondent from the London Daily Worker, Minister of Industries Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, who was Castro's one-man braintrust back in the hills, last week gave an interview defiantly proclaiming Cuba's firm intention to go right on trying to export its revolution throughout Latin America. What is more, said Che, "if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart...
...bluster, Guevara will find the going hard. When Castro defiantly declared himself a "Marxist-Leninist," he alienated most Latin American governments and lost much of his popular support among workers and educated idealists. Some woolly-headed university students and leftists still naively regarded him as a made-in-Cuba revolutionary simply marching in voluntary step with the Communist world. But after Khrushchev dealt directly with Kennedy on the Cuban missiles, bypassing Castro as an unimportant puppet, the Cuban dictator lost even those supporters. Latin American leftists have been bitterly disowning both Castro and Communism ever since...