Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caracas last week, the Communists, who have been murdering policemen and setting off bombs, celebrated May Day by posting snipers on roofs of the city's housing projects to fire into the streets. In the countryside, bands of Red guerrillas, trained and indoctrinated in Fidel Castro's Cuba, have been roaming the jungle hills, trying to enlist the peasants and skirmishing with Betancourt's pursuing National Guard...
Mush Without Bread. Traveling to the Guárico state capital of San Juan de los Morros, Betancourt angrily charged Fidel Castro with aggression, and confidently warned him not to expect any help from Venezuela's peasants: "The pressure for the government to Cubanize itself has taken the path of violence, terrorism, dynamiting and armed action. Those guerrillas have failed because guerrillas without peasants are like bread mush without bread. The peasants of Venezuela defend this regime because they helped organize it with their votes. We cannot become simple pawns in a world conspiracy moved about by Nikita Khrushchev...
...desperate turns a disheartened Cuba may take are many. The Bay of Pigs invasion did Castro the invaluable favor-so essential in fastening a dictatorship on a people-of convincing the discontented that resistance is futile. Most of the diplomats and foreign journalists in Havana (who can no longer count on the frankness of those they talk to) see little chance of a popular revolt, and sense that, though greatly diminished, the reservoir of idealism and expectancy that Castro began with still exists among many campesinos...
Like Communists everywhere, those in Cuba may not know how to run an economy or make the public happy, but they know how to hold control. A likelier possibility is a fallout among the factions who govern, and it is a U.S. worry that when it suits the Communists, Castro might be found murdered with a U.S. pistol lying near by. The same thought must trouble Castro, for he no longer moves around freely, unattended. Already assassination attempts have been reported against Brother Raul...
...present, old-line Communists still need Castro, must do him homage and dare not switch off his loudspeaker...