Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it is all over, Bolivian President René Barrientos finds himself in the unusual position of being somewhat thankful for the guerrilla uprising led by Che Guevara and his Cubans. The guerrillas gave Barrientos and his government a bad time for several months, but since Che's death the band has been whittled down to about five men, on whom the Bolivian army is closing in this week in central Bolivia. With their campaign of violence and terror, Castro's followers did what Barrientos had never been able to do: consolidate and unify public opinion-however temporarily...
...strikes, have not taken to the streets in months. Political opposition has quieted down. Barrientos even strengthened his hand with the army by personally flying into the battle zone half a dozen times, sometimes only minutes after the latest action. On one visit, according to an entry in Che Guevara's diary, Barrientos' helicopter set down only 250 yards from the spot where the guerrilla leader was hidden. "The important thing was that we had the support of the people," says Barrientos, a former air force general. "Against us, Fidel and Guevara were babies, just babies...
...minds of Cuba's 7.8 million citizens have rarely needed more diverting. Che Guevara is dead, and with him Castro's dream of leading a continent-wide revolution in Latin America. Cuba's relations with its Russian allies are at their lowest point since the 1962 missile crisis. The economy is a shambles. Perhaps most serious, there is a new mood of frustration abroad in the land. "If the people could just complain," says Jacinto Cabal'ero, a Cuban exile newly arrived in Miami, "it would be a lot easier. But you can't even...
...modern commercial-fishing fleet of 300 boats, then found that most Cubans simply do not care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt" of land around Havana and plant it with fruits and vegetables. Many workers have no choice about...
...Castro came up with yet another diversion. Countering the suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner Régis Debray be swapped for Castro Prisoner Huber Matos (TIME, Jan. 12), Castro offered to release 100 political prisoners in return for the body of Che Guevara. He may have in mind something like Lenin's tomb...