Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami he admitted killing everyone on board the Seven Seas except Elwin and the cook, Davison. "They called me a Communist and a thief," he said, "so I shot them." He said that Díaz and most of the others had been bullyragging him mercilessly for his pro-Castro sympathies. He had fled Cuba last fall in a boat, leaving behind his wife and three daughters. Now he longed to return. On the night of the shooting, he had the helm on the bridge when Captain Díaz started going at him again. Díaz, he said...
...also gave some clues to the scope of counterrevolutionary effort in his own country. In Las Villas province, 2,005 rebels had been captured or killed since 1961, he said, and in the struggle, 295 soldiers of his "anti-bandit battalions" had been killed. When Castro turned to the economy, the crowd fell silent under some withering criticism from the Maximum Leader. Cubans, cried he, "are going at 25% of their capacity 80% of the time...
Depressed Market. Fidel's impatience was understandable. In the past five years, per-capita income has dropped 15% in Cuba. After an abortive attempt at crash industrialization, Castro has again turned priority effort toward sugar, Cuba's one cash crop. The current harvest has produced a healthy 6,000,000 tons. Trouble is, so much of it (4,800,000 tons) has already been committed-to Russia, Red China and other countries, under barter agreements-that only 800,000 tons are left, after domestic needs, to sell for badly needed foreign exchange...
Meanwhile, under pressure from a starving economy and Castro's brutal security forces, the ragtag exodus of Cubans from their homeland continues. Last week a yachtsman off Miami rescued onetime Camagüey Province Governor Luis Casas Martinez, 36, from a raft on which he had drifted alone for twelve days after escaping from a Castro prison. Casas Martinez, whose sister fled to Florida in 1964, had once been a Castro official, but he fell into disfavor. An X tattooed over his heart marked him for death for plotting against Castro. He was the latest of more than...
...Demagogues. Why do commodity prices boom and bust, gutting whole economies, while industrial prices glide up? The main reason is that commodity supplies are largely unpredictable, depend chiefly on the weather. International marketing agreements that could bring stability have been hard to negotiate and harder still to enforce. Castro upset the world sugar pact; the world coffee agreement is riddled with holes, and cocoa producers have repeatedly failed to agree on quotas and prices...