Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro's art exhibit was the highlight of an eight-day international cultural congress that ended in Havana last week. Though the congress was a flop as such affairs go-only a few of the big names invited showed up*-it was part of an old Castro strategy: when things go sour, divert the people's minds...
...minds of Cuba's 7.8 million citizens have rarely needed more diverting. Che Guevara is dead, and with him Castro's dream of leading a continent-wide revolution in Latin America. Cuba's relations with its Russian allies are at their lowest point since the 1962 missile crisis. The economy is a shambles. Perhaps most serious, there is a new mood of frustration abroad in the land. "If the people could just complain," says Jacinto Cabal'ero, a Cuban exile newly arrived in Miami, "it would be a lot easier. But you can't even...
...Adventures. Nine years after Castro's victorious march into Havana, rationing is still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted...
...effort to strengthen the economy, Castro has tried one fruitless scheme after another. He built a new, modern commercial-fishing fleet of 300 boats, then found that most Cubans simply do not care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt...
Graffiti & Sabotage. With the gradual rise in frustration, Castro's government has split into activist and conservative factions-but neither seems to know how to get anything done. Even the university, which Castro has always courted, has seen a rise in dissent. Last summer, 40 professors, students and minor party officials at the University of Havana were arrested for disagreeing with party policy. The rank-and-file Cubans are much subtler in their opposition. Some scribble graffiti on restroom walls ("Down With Russian Imperialism," "Fidel, Traitor"). Others indulge in a little spur-of-the-moment sabotage. Sailors or railroad...