Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather was balmier, and in Russia no one would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...
Speaking at a showing of two movies on post-revolutionary Cuba sponsored by the Harvard Latin American Association last night, Duncan Clement, who left his post in Cuba last January, said Castro is apparently more interested in the economic strength of state farms than he is in fulfilling the popular desire for small private plots...
Though less efficient than large tracts, Clement said, small farms have long been a dream of Cubans and, indeed, all Latin Americans. He indicated that by not giving the Cubans the land promised them, Castro might be weakening popular support for his reforms...
Because of the emigration of many Cuban planners, he said, Castro has had to import experts who frequently do not understand Cuba's problems...
Clements said however, that Castro's urban reforms, which took the form of tax and rent changes as well as housing developments, were aimed more at destroying Cuba's middle class than at providing new housing for the lower class people...