Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Bay of Pigs invasion, similarly, Mansfield wrote that "our sensitivity to this personality [Fidel Castro] and to the Cuban people is not what it ought to be." He recommended "seriously re-evaluating our own base policies on the rim of the Soviet Union" if there was to be forceful opposition to "the establishment of Soviet missiles or any other kind of base for Russian forces in Cuba...
...Allende's released photographs of the President taken inside the besieged presidential palace on the morning of the coup. He is seen in the company of his guards wearing a metal combat helmet and carrying a Soviet-made automatic rifle given to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Fascinating though they are, the photos do not resolve the questions about how Allende died. The military junta that now runs Chile claims that Allende committed suicide by killing himself with his rifle. But Allende's widow, Hortensia Bussi de Allende, now living in exile in Mexico, disputes that...
...Castro Valley. Calif...
...arms expenditures for Pax Americana policies. The Kennedy Administration's boost in arms expenditures, development of "flexible response" for limited wars, and its more belligerent foreign policies all met with Rockefeller's approval, though he did not think Kennedy went far enough. Rockefeller was for a second try at Castro after the Bay of Pigs and he supported the nuclear test agreement reluctantly. He was the country's leading enthusiast for the delusion that there could be civil defense against nuclear war. He was for U.S. intervention in the Congo, where the Rockefellers have extensive interests and as late...
...this new form of imperialist repression which has produced urban guerrilla movements. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fought their battles in the countryside, among and with peasants in predominantly rural Cuba. They established what they called a foco, a zone controlled by the revolutionaries, and expanded that area until the Batista government fled. Action in the cities, strikes and work stoppages, was merely supportive...