Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well take a great man to solve some of the problems that the ministers must consider. High on the list will be what to do about Cuba. Partly on his own and partly at the urging of the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro has obliquely hinted that he would like to resume friendly relations with the rest of the hemisphere. Seven Latin American countries already have diplomatic relations with Castro. The U.S. economic embargo against Cuba becomes a little less effective each year as other Latins, eager to increase their exports, send catalogues of their goods to Havana...
Reston did not hide his distaste for Castro's Cuba. He said that the "self-interest of the [U.S.] undoubtedly requires the overthrow of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, which is providing a political and, increasingly, a military base of communism in the Carribean" (column, April 12, 1961). The column was headlined "The Moral Question...
...Bienvenido, Companero Brezhnev." It was the first visit by a Kremlin leader to Cuba since Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited the Caribbean island in 1971-and the biggest crowd Brezhnev had ever received on his frequent travels abroad. Plainly enjoying the effusive Latin welcome, he traded warm abrazos with Castro, and waved continuously on the 25-mile motorcade into Havana from the back of a pale gray open Zil convertible that had been shipped from Moscow, along with a fleet of black Chaika limousines...
Next day, hundreds of thousands of Cubans attended a mass rally in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion. In deference to Castro, who was wearing his inevitable fatigues, the Soviet Party Chief, 67, abandoned his customary dark business suit for a casual tunic jacket and a white Panama hat. Anxious to impress the shirt-sleeved masses with his own blue-collar credentials, Brezhnev told the rally that he, his father and brother had all worked in a steel mill...
...speech that seemed to be aimed at Washington as well as at Castro, Brezhnev told the rally that Soviet weapons in Cuba were not "for attacking anyone but for defending your revolutionary gains." He warned Latin American leftists that despite "the fascist coup in Chile," Moscow was opposed to the use of subversion as a political tool. "Revolution feeds not on somebody's subversion or propaganda," he declared, "but on realities, on the unbearable conditions in which people have to live. The Soviet Union has always considered to be criminal any attempt to export counterrevolution. But neither are Communists...