Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy, which was highly protected under Allende, has become much less restricted and more entrepreneurial. The transformation has been largely the work of those whom Chileans call the "Chicago Boys," a handful of officials and academics led by Planning Minister Miguel Kast, 30, Finance Minister Sergio de Castro, 49, and Central Bank President Alvaro Bardon, 39. All have graduate degrees in economics from the University of Chicago, the spiritual home of Free Marketeer Milton Friedman. Like most Chilean economists, the Boys were fervent opponents of Allende, and the military junta picked many of them for top jobs. They were given...
Havana on the eve of revolution: Batista's people clinging to their corrupt ways; Castro's men closing in on the cap ital; and Sean Connery, as a soldier of fortune, flying in to try to help the govern ment turn the tide. Sounds lively...
Focusing on this listless triangle, Lester and Screenwriter Wood present as a dazzling insight into the smugness of power a scene showing Batista absorbed in a Christopher Lee vampire movie as Castro moves in for the kill. The decadence of Batista's supporters appears about as wild as that of the fast crowd in an Ohio country club, while Castro's revolutionaries behave like a hirsute Boy Scout troop. It is hard to believe that this dumb picture is the work of the director who did the delicious Three Musketeers movies...