Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other unprecedented gangster phenomenon is the Marielitos, who arrived in Florida in 1980 when Fidel Castro loaded up a refugee boat lift with the dregs of his prisons. The crime rate in Miami's Little Havana jumped an astonishing 83% within months of their arrival. The Marielitos have since fanned out around the country, and special police squads have been set up to deal with them in cities as varied as Las Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their...
Padilla, a genial, garrulous man of 53, first came to the U.S. in the '50s to escape the oppression of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of the day. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959, Padilla returned home and put himself at the command of the new regime, which sent him to London and Moscow as a correspondent for Prensa Latina, the government press agency. Gradually he became disenchanted; he saw the future of his country in the repressive atmosphere of the East bloc. Poems such as this reflected his unhappy feelings...
Denounced as "counterrevolutionary and pessimistic," he was eventually jailed, tortured and held for a month in 1971, an event that inspired a worldwide protest: furious, his old friend Castro visited Padilla's cell to rail against him. "Abroad they are speaking against the Cuban revolution," he yelled, "and you are responsible for that." After his release, Padilla was officially a nonperson for the next decade and eked out a bare living as a translator. Only after Senator Edward Kennedy made a personal appeal to Castro was Padilla allowed to emigrate...
...Toit's statement was quickly seized on last week by Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who has 30,000 of his troops stationed in Angola. He lambasted U.S.-sponsored peace efforts in southern Africa and charged that the U.S. had known all along that South Africa was lying when it claimed to have withdrawn its forces from Angola. The Angolans had been considering a phased withdrawal of Cuban forces in return for the South African pullout, but last week, according to South African sources, the Luanda government intended to break off negotiations with Pretoria...
...claimed that the island would have had a major league baseball team by now if it were not a Communist country. Most observers agreed that Radio Marti's material was mild compared with programs beamed to Cuba by several Miami-based Spanish-language stations, which routinely refer to Castro as a "tyrant" and "madman...