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Cuban President Fidel Castro normally can't stand being ignored. But he has chosen a moment when the world is looking the other way to carry out a startling roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, the day before war broke out in Iraq, 78 dissidents and independent journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. The evidence? Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya...
...huge attack: the first day's air strike would be 1,080 sorties. This would be followed by an invasion; we had 180,000 troops mobilized in southeastern U.S. ports. We didn't learn until 30 years later that the Soviets already had 162 warheads in Cuba, and Fidel Castro had already recommended to Nikita Khrushchev that nuclear weapons be used if the U.S. invaded. That's how close we came. Events were slipping out of control...
...Fidel Castro and Che Guevara A Revolutionary Fellowship
...human-rights groups. The opposition gave President Robert Mugabe a deadline of March 31 to implement reforms or face further mass action. Ignoring worldwide condemnation of the current wave of repression, Mugabe warned that any new protests would be dealt with "severely." Down on Dissent CUBA President Fidel Castro chose a moment when the world was looking the other way to launch a roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, 78 dissidents and journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. One who has not been arrested...
NAMED. FIDEL CASTRO, 76, to a sixth consecutive term as President of the Council of State, Cuba's supreme governing body; in Havana. Castro is now the world's longest-serving head of state and has been Cuba's unchallenged strongman since 1959, when his guerrilla movement, led by Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, overthrew the island-state's military dictatorship. In 1962, Castro almost caused a nuclear war when he allowed the then Soviet Union to base long-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, prompting a tense face-off between Washington and Moscow until the Soviets backed down and removed...