Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experiences while in Cuba, one cannot help but to notice the lack of any factual information to support their feelings. It seems that the members of the Brigade have done no research into Cuba's past. The reader cannot but conclude, according to their interpretation, that in 1959 Castro took a poor, underdeveloped, semi-feudal state and by the power of his personality and by the overwhelming support of the Cuban people turned Cuba into a model society for the world to admire...
Tide of Publicity. So far the kidnaping technique has proved to be a startlingly effective way of springing political prisoners. Equally important, it has brought worldwide attention to Latin America's urban guerrilla bands and the generally conservative regimes that they oppose. As long ago as 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban guerrillas seized Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine auto-racing champion, then freed him after a tide of publicity. In the early 1960s, kidnaping was widely used by rebels in Guatemala and elsewhere to raise funds, but the victims were rarely foreigners...
...such adornments as taste or logic, and neither does the film, at least not in its original 3-hr., 11-min. version. As a boy, Dax Xenos (Loris Loddi) sees his mother raped by the Fascisti. He swears revenge and years later the adult Dax (Bekim Fehmiu) helps a Castro-style Latin American leader named Rojo (Alan Badel) to survive a bloody uprising. On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary. According to Robbins' five-peseta psychology, the poor niño is cursed with the inability to feel-with his heart. With everything else...
...composer spoke so clearly yesterday that it was easy to see how much we miss him. At every corner and question, we seem far short of the answers that Bach seems to have held in his hand. Fidel Castro once said that he missed Che as a man. In the same sense, we miss J. S. Bach...
...Their youth was dominated by the resistance to Batista. Carlos went to the mountains to join the Rebel Army, and fought under Raul Castro. Pedro carried messages for his father, who was a member of the revolutionary underground of peasants in Havana province. Alberto took part in student strikes...