Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro's failure to provide land for Cuban smallholders, despite promises made during the revolution, may be a serious flaw in his land reform plans, according to the director of Harvard's Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory in Soledad, Cubs...
...Uruguay, Olivares told Chief of State Eduardo Victor Haedo that Cuba hoped that her right of "self-determination" (even without elections) would be respected at Punta del Este. Olivares de livered his message to Chile, then landed in Buenos Aires to see Frondizi. Castro's messenger was bluntly told that Frondizi was "too busy." After an hour with the Argentine Foreign Minister, Olivares marched out frozen-faced and silent. Shortly after the meeting, the Argentine Foreign Office released a pointed com muniqué repudiating Communism and ex pressing "enthusiastic support" for President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress...
...book itself is the standard, dogeared list of U.S. "crimes"-some true, some partly true, others patently false-against its smaller neighbors over the past 150 years. It serves Castro's purpose so well that he has had 150,000 copies printed in Spanish to be sold for 5? per copy. For whatever U.S. audience that could be reached, a New York Castro-phile named June Cobb translated it into English. U.S. publisher: Lyle Stuart, a Manhattan publisher of erotica and Castroite propaganda who has also served as treasurer of the New York branch of the Fair Play...
...harpoons for "Uncle Shark" may prove a current embarrassment for Arévalo, who now sings a less strident line and says he will not even take royalties from Castro. But his book was no momentary aberration. A self-styled "spiritual Socialist," he blamed his country's ills on the United Fruit Co., which had immense holdings in Guatemala, accused the U.S. Government of backing the company's "exploitations," once expelled a U.S. ambassador who offended him. In office, though a devious administrator, he gave his country some freedoms it had not known under a previous long line...
...Castro, says Arévalo, Communism will not work in Latin America or anywhere else. "You can see that by going over their record in Cuba...