Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department looked askance when Castro replaced the defunct Batista bureaucracy with a Communist machine, why does it not draw some hope from this reversal...
...announcing the blockade October 22, Mr. Kennedy reviewed Cuba's drift to the left as a betrayal of an essentially nationalistic revolution. But he did not comment on the real paradox of fidelismo: the achievement of Castro's concrete national objectives rests on external economic support. Political independence and social progress can come only through a balanced dependence so the great powers. But to the power that once held away, this balance represents a defeat: to the newly influential, it represents a victory. Minimal U.S. influence in Cuba came to mean humiliation, just as similar influence implied some sort...
Perhaps the hangover from the days of control prevents the Government from seeing the real parallels here. Both Cuba and Yugoslavia approached Communism via nationalism. Like Tito, Castro's leadership extended beyond the organized left, directly to the peasants who comprised the revolutionary movement. And at the common core of the Cuban left and the Yugoslavian left is not a long-standing devotion to Marxist-Leninist principles, but an intense nationalism...
...nation in Eastern Europe freed itself without Red Army help, that nation was Yugoslavia. And if any other country came to Socialism owing the Soviet Union no military debt, that country is Cuba. The Soviet distrust of Castro and his colleagues, today so easily forgotten, parallele the Stalinist distrust of the independently victorious Josip Broz Tito. Just as Tito did in the late '40s, Castro has found it necessary to dismiss those politicians who regard the USSR as their patria. Finally, it was a dispute over military autonomy that catalyzed the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict. The same could hold true...
...Fidel Castro has now been burdened and disgraced by the Soviet Union. His speeches have shown the strain of a man who senses the incompatibility of Cuban and Soviet objectives. But the U.S. has not allowed him to say, as Tito could eventually, "We do not want to pay other people's bills.... Never again will we be dependent on anybody...