Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of opportunity that Old Athlete Fidel Castro cannot resist...
Excessive Speechifying. On his first trip to South America in twelve years, Castro followed a two-week itinerary that took him north through Chile's bleak mining country, then south for tours of factories and talks with stu dents, and finally for a cruise on a destroyer with his host, Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...times, Fidel was more like a touring inspector general than a visiting head of government. Obviously well-coached about the problems that Allende's government is having with falling production, rising absenteeism and soaring wage demands at Chile's newly nationalized mines, Castro vigorously railed against troublemaking "demagogues" and "reactionaries" during a speech at a mine in Pedro de Valdivia. At Chuquicamata, the world's largest open-pit copper operation, he launched into a lecture on productivity. He thundered that "a hundred tons less per day means a loss of $36 mil lion a year...
After eating a boiled chicken dinner one evening high in the mine-area mountains, Castro summoned the cook from the kitchen. What, he wanted to know, was the boiling point of water? One hun dred twenty degrees centigrade, answered the cook. "No," snapped Fidel...
...time he reached the southern fishing port of Puerto Montt, Castro's voice was reduced to a squeak - the result of a cold and his excessive speechifying. Allende, who met him there for a cruise to the southern tip of Chile, apologized for Castro's inability to address the crowd that awaited them. "I asked him as a friend, I pleaded, I recommended it as a doctor and even ordered as President that he not talk so much or so long," said Allende. "But he paid me no attention...