Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a month before the pot began to boil. On Thursday, July 23, leaflets began circulating around the Square urging people to celebrate the anniversary of Fidel Castro's July 25 attack on the Moncada Barracks by holding a "block party" on the Common that Saturday night. Although it did not say so explicitly, the leaflet clearly implied that those who came should be prepared to celebrate violently...
...Castro's Congratulations. Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, who had reportedly contributed several suitcases-full of hard currency to the Allende campaign, sent his congratulations. In a journalistic pre-emptive strike, the Soviet party paper Pravda accused the U.S. of having "an intention to interfere in the internal affairs of Chile." In point of fact, Washington was reluctant to take any position at all on Allende's emergence, although it knew full well that his nationalization program would eventually affect virtually all of the $700 million U.S. investment in Chile...
...which is left of Chile's Communists, proudly boasts of his Marxist goals. "The capitalist regime has failed," he says. If elected, Allende promises a government-led revolution that would totally remold the country's social and economic order. He makes no secret of his admiration for Castro...
...military, which already is restive about the Communist threat, into its first coup in 38 years. His victory would also polarize the already socially stratified country of 9,000,000 in harshly antagonistic groups. In Latin America as a whole, a Marxist victory in Chile would enliven Fidel Castro's waning image and stand as the ultimate mockery to the U.S.'s loftily conceived but ineptly carried out Alliance for Progress. Chile's neighbors, notably Argentina, would most likely redouble their own harsh anti-Communist efforts. There is some fear among U.S. diplomats that the Soviet Union...
...origin of Saturday's demonstration remains a mystery. A rally and ruot was called for the Cambridge Common at midnight Saturday by unidentified leafleters in celebration of the Castro attack on the Moncada Army Barracks on July 26, 1953. But counter-leaflets also passed out in the Square called the demonstration "a police...