Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early days of the French Revolution in 1789. Last week's demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening air with the sounds of banging pans, patriotic songs and chants of "Chile, si! Cuba...
...before the real Swan song began. A New York company called Gibraltar Steamship Corp.. which owned no steamships, set up shop on the island with a 50,000-watt transmitter. Gibraltar, of course, was a CIA cover, and Radio Swan was soon booming propaganda to Fidel Castro's Cuba, 350 miles away. It called Castro and his lieutenants "pigs with beards" and accused Brother Raul Castro of being "a queer with effeminate friends." In reply, Havana Radio called Swan "a cage of hysterical parrots...
...What was Castro up to? On one level, Allende hoped that the Cuban revolutionary's presence would sanctify his own efforts to tame Chile's obstreperous unions and mollify the extremists who want to turn the country into a pure socialist state overnight. With those elements, Castro certainly scored some points; one Chuquicamata copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold...
Without Obeisance. On another level, Castro had his own purposes to serve. His trip opened a campaign to break down the diplomatic and economic isolation imposed on Cuba, at U.S. insistence, by the Organization of American States in the early 1960s. Nationalism and anti-Yankee sentiment is so high in Latin America that U.S. officials concede privately that Castro may be able to re-establish Cuba's ties to the region on his own terms-meaning without obeisance to the OAS or to Washington. Peru may soon follow Chile in recognizing Havana, and other countries will certainly follow. Eventually...
That would be a triumph not only for Havana but also for Moscow. In going to Chile, Castro was in effect admitting that the kind of violent revolution he has espoused is passe. He was also endorsing the Soviet via padfica policy of promoting Communism in Latin America through established parties and more or less conventional politics. Fidel made the point poignantly. While in Santiago, he laid wreaths on statues of two Latin American heroes-but he did not go near the one that had been erected for his old revolutionary comrade Che Guevara...