Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handful of poets, historians, teachers, scientists, humanists. None have appreciably influenced popular opinion, let alone Washington. This is regrettable: the perpetuation of this attitude is and will continue to be fatal for the U.S. and for the whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot, the Soviet Union obtained what Napoleon III in the 19th century and Wilhelm II in the 20th could not: a political and military base...
...powers struggle for supremacy. Facing this new situation, American leaders have attempted to design a new Latin American policy; they have succeeded only in repeating the old mistakes. But this criticism must also be applied, although in the other direction, to the Latin American anti-imperialists. The example of Castro's Cuba, now a "socialism of the barracks"-as Engels called Bismarck's Germany-dependent on Moscow as Batista never was on Washington, should open our eyes...
...fiscally wobbly, Brazil most prominently. There Reagan reassured Figueiredo that the U.S. is not about to let Brazil's precarious economy, the world's tenth largest, collapse. Reagan also went south to reaffirm his Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua). His stops in Costa Rica and Honduras symbolically isolated Nicaragua, which is wedged in between. Reagan also conferred with President Alvaro Magafta of El Salvador and Guatemalan Strongman General Ephrain Rios Montt, both of whom face leftist insurgencies. Though Reagan made...
...mouths of a handful of the more clownish, and often more violent SDSers. Jerry Rubin: "I know [being Jewish] made me feel like a minority or outsider in America (sic.) from my birth and helped me become a revolutionary." And Abbie Hoffman (presumably on radical Jewish impotence): "Fidel [Castro] sits on the side of a tank rumbling into Havana on New Year's day... The tank stops in the city square. Fidel lets the gun drop to the ground, slaps his thigh and stands erect. He is like a mighty penis coming to life..." Insight into the confused thinking...
...front runner in the gubernatorial race was Leonel Brizola, 62, a charismatic populist and onetime left-wing orator who was governor of Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul at the time of the 1964 military coup. Brizola, who used to extol the virtues of Fidel Castro, has been cited by military men as one of the reasons that they seized power in the first place. At week's end Brizola was leading his P.D.S. opponent, 694,000 votes...