Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others: Castro, Jan. 26, 1959; Che Guevara, Aug. 8, 1960; Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona, April 28, 1961; and Communist Boss Bias Roca, April...
...Cover) It was Fidel Castro's first major speech since the July 26 anniversary of his 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that started the Cuban revolution. There he stood last week before a crowd of 50,000 in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, meandering for hours about everything and nothing - poverty, classroom shortages, taxes, new houses, and the problem of bureaucrats who do "absolutely nothing." Then, amid the chatter, he dropped two electric statements that instantly set telephones jangling from Miami to Washington. Castro offhandedly promised to 1) let any Cuban with relatives...
Taken together, the two announcements said a lot about what was going on in Castro's ugly little dictatorship six years eight months and 28 days after the bearded revolutionary marched triumphantly into Havana, with the worshipful cheers of 6,500,000 Cubans ringing in his ears...
What has happened to Castro is disappointment, disillusion and decay. After nearly seven years of power, the grandiose dreams are ended. Gone is the hope of a swift socialist transformation to make agricultural Cuba a Caribbean industrial colossus; the Cuban economy is in tatters, back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer. Gone is the vision of leading a vast Latin American popular revolution; that revolution is being ably led by the democratic left of Peru's Fernando Belaunde Terry, Venezuela's Raul Leoni and Chile's Eduardo Frei-while Castro's once-great...
...Castro survives only because of a $500 million, Soviet-supplied military machine and a subsistence-level economic dole amounting to about...