Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 500,000 Cubans looked on, 1 8 Soviet-built MIG-17s plus three supersonic MIG-19s thundered over the reviewing stand. One MIG cracked the sound barrier with a thunderclapping boom. Below, past 100-ft.-high pictures of Castro. Lenin and Picasso's peace dove, the ground forces paraded to the strains of the Communist Internationale-artillery with radar-aiming devices, multiple rocket launchers, double-barrelled antiaircraft guns and Soviet 51-ton tanks...
Raising his voice to his high oratorical pitch, Castro cried again that he was a Communist ("We reaffirm that we are Marxist-Leninists"), bitterly attacked the U.S. ("repugnantly shameful, criminal, odious") and Colombia's Lleras Camargo ("that bilious character") for leading the diplomatic moves against him. But his real message seemed to be to those Latin American nations who might be wondering about his own intentions. Castro swore that his new arms were not for export, and in the favorite nobody-here-but-us-chickens rhetoric of Communism added: "We know that only the peoples themselves can carry...
...great decision evidently much on Castro's mind was the decision to be taken Jan. 22 by the OAS: whether to invoke sanctions against him. To counter the conference, Castro decreed that "on Jan. 22 we are going to convoke the second national general assembly of the people of Cuba. It will be the most gigantic act of the revolution and of the people." Castro apparently intends to demonstrate to Latin America that so long as he can assemble great crowds to shout slogans in unison, why in the world would anyone want free elections...
...lesson takes for its text a speech of Castro's falsely translated in Miami by a Cuban refugee working for the United Press. Castro, according to this version admitted being a Marxist-Leninist all along and confessed to playing a great trick on the people of Cuba. It wasn't until another source monitoring the speech (and the printed version, which finally reached these shores) indicated that he said just the opposite, i.e. that he was not a Marxist-Leninist while a student, but his experience during the full course of the Revolution had led to his present conviction, that...
Having mastered the lesson that Castro was a Communist from way back, the moral was drawn: Communism is congenital. It is not a political response to certain conditions, but a pathological state, overt in those who espouse it, latent in those who but show the symptoms (Agrarian reform, trade with the East, a vocabulary that includes "imperialism" ...). It is worth noting that the triumph of the congenital theory has invalidated the hypothesis that Communism is a contagious disease, spread by certain strong carriers like Che Guevara in countries with weak Constitutions. This development makes the solution of the problem surgical...