Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arafat was not the only revolutionary superstar in Nicaragua last week. Cuban President Fidel Castro toured the country for a week after an initial appearance at Managua's anniversary rally. He did not appear to have come to preach Marxist revolution. Instead, his low-key visit was marked by uncharacteristic restraint. "We are here humbly to learn and to be influenced," he said...
Side One finishes with "Indian Girl," a pleasantly poignant ballad with a fine horn arrangement by old Stones associate Jack Nitzsche. Frankly, I can't get a handle on it--it seems to be a vague diatribe against Soviet imperialism and Fidel Castro. Which would make sense, since both Castro and Jagger were recently named to the list of the Ten Coolest People in the World. Rivalry, then would explain...
...Fidel Castro...
...ability of the city's Latin quarter to attract wealthy South American visitors. At that time the Cuban refugees numbered about 20 per cent of the population, and relations between the Cuban and the non-Latin white (or "Anglo") communities were good. The Anglos had welcomed the Cubans fleeing Castro with open arms, and in return the Cubans settled in a decaying neighborhood and turned it into a boom town. But as it turned out, the decision to chase South American pesos shattered the fragile Cuban-Anglo harmony and turned it into hatred. In addition, the "New Prosperity...
...make coffee. Military police moved in and doused the flames, telling the refugees that open fires were outlawed on the Army base at Fort Chaffee, Ark. A small incident, but last week it ignited the resentment that had been smoldering in some of the 19,000 Cuban refugees from Castro awaiting relocation in the U.S. A force of 500 Cubans marched out through the front gate before being rounded up by harassed soldiers and police. That night 200 Cubans tried to storm the gates. Repelled, they staged a full-scale riot and set mess halls and supply rooms ablaze. Police...