Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on Cuban Communist Bias Roca. But he could get no answer to his repeated requests for a visa. Instead. Halper had to confine himself to hopping around between Florida. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, interviewing some of the 200,000 Cubans who have fled since Castro took over. He got a great deal of material, but we were still eager to get our own man into Havana. The solution was easy. Castro is doing his best to keep on good terms with Canada, and lets Canadian journalists in freely. As a result, Gavin Scott of our Ottawa...
...Castro was the first to reach Havana" related Figueres, but several Latin American groups had cooperated to overthrow the Batista dictatorship. The Costa Rican had been an active leader among these and came to Havana in March 1959 as an honored guest of the new regime...
...described how he spent several days trying to reach the revolutionary so that the two could coordinate the speeches they were to give at a massive celebration. "But Friday he sent word that he was fighting someone somewhere," and so Figueres and Castro met again only on the day of the rally...
...Castro in his turn rose and gave his first major political speech, encouraged by Figueres. "For two-and-a-quarter hours I encouraged him," the former president continued. "I was told later that this was the first time he really told what was on his mind...
This was the speech that revealed Castro's distrust of the U.S. and his view that the transform of social conditions could be effected only by force, on the Comunist pattern. But Figueres, for his concern with Cuba's future and his willingness to hear Castro, got a grateful reception from the Cuban people. Though their views already diverged, Castro's trust dissolved slowly, and Figueres still appeared on Cuban television the following two nights...