Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western Hemisphere's wall of isolation around Fidel Castro's Cuba is beginning to crumble. At a meeting in Washington of Foreign Ministers from nations of the Organization of American States, the U.S. State Department announced that the Argentine subsidiaries of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler may now legally export some $80 million worth of autos and trucks to Cuba...
...perhaps 70% of the nation's people still live outside the money economy in appalling poverty. Brazil stands only 13th among Latin American nations in per capita income ($520 a year), below even backwaters like Surinam. The average life expectancy is only about 50 years (against 67 in Castro's Cuba), and infant mortality is increasing. In rural areas of the arid Northeast, the average calorie intake of peasants has declined in recent years from 1,800 a day to 1,323-more than 1,200 below what United Nations' food experts consider the minimum for subsistence...
...former adviser to Cuban President Fidel Castro and Chilean leader Salvador Allende yesterday linked black activism in the United States with revolutions in underdeveloped countries as the prime source for social change in the world today...
Boorstein said Cuba, which is about 50 per cent black, has attained a high level of racial equality. "There is no comparison between the racial situation now and before Castro," he said...
...purely cold-blooded reasons, Washington is unwilling to cozy up to Castro at this point. For one thing, it wants his somewhat tarnished charisma to lose a little more of its luster before he is welcomed back into the family of hemisphere states. For another, it is quite content to see Moscow go on spending $1.5 million a day to prop up Castro's economically troubled regime...