Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Havana carefully did not tell the Cuban people that Fidel Castro was giving up one of his most important posts. The official announcement last week merely stated that the all-powerful National Agrarian Reform Institute, which runs Cuba's communized agriculture, was getting a new boss. He is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, a longtime Communist economic theoretician and, next to Secretary-General Bias Roca, top man in the party's hierarchy...
...shift marked the first time that Fidel Castro, oft-proclaimed "maximum leader," has been removed from a position of power, and it made clearer still what has been apparent for months...
...Though Castro continues to do most of the talking, the reins of government are being quietly gathered up by professional Communists (see box) who intend to make sure that amateurs do not ruin the revolution...
Petty Putschist. Confronted with the immensity of Castro's mismanagement, the Communists are showing themselves less tolerant of Castro's eccentric...
Cuba's old-line Reds have always held a patronizing view of Castro. When he first began his guerrilla fight, the Communists dismissed him as inconsequential; Rodríguez himself laughed off Castro as a "petty putschist." But when it seemed that Castro might win. Rodríguez was sent into the hills to join the rebels...