Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undermine Chile's elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. Said he: "There wasn't any question about his turning all the screws he possibly could in the direction of making Chile a Marxist state ... There wasn't any question that Chile was being used by some of Castro's agents as a base to export terrorism to Argentina, to Bolivia, to Brazil." When Frost responded that "Allende looks like a saint" compared with his U.S.-supported successor General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Nixon pointed at Frost and replied, "The right-wing dictatorship, if it is not exporting...
When Jimmy Carter allowed the ban on American travel to Cuba to lapse last March, no one was happier than cigar aficionados. They had been deprived - legally, at least - of the pleasures of Cuban stogies since 1962, when the embargo on trade with Fidel Castro's island was imposed. A smoker is now free to ask a Cuba-bound traveler: "Hey, going to Havana? Pick me up a couple of boxes of Montecristos." But lately many Americans returning to the U.S. from points outside Cuba laden with Havana's best have been rudely awakened by customs inspectors...
...they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years at this price level." The price collapse has badly hurt the Cuban economy; that is a major reason why Fidel Castro is eager to re-establish trade with the U.S., once Cuba's prime customer...
...economy is in wretched shape. The major cause is the plunge in the world price of sugar, Cuba's chief export, from more than 50? per Ib. in late 1974 to just 7? today. The Russians are now spending nearly $4 million a day to keep Castro's economy sputtering along; that does not include military aid, estimated at $200,000 a day. Moscow also supplies almost all of Cuba's oil needs at bargain prices. But Cuba owes nearly $5 billion to the Soviets, plus $1 billion in hard currency to other countries. Agriculture has floundered...
While the peasants' lot has greatly improved since the revolution, Havana has suffered-even more so lately from Castro's African adventure. One example: the regime sent hundreds of Havana bus drivers to Angola to drive trucks in the war zone. As a result, scores of buses sit idle, and the daily commute for some Cubans has increased by hours...