Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some confusion in Castro's own ranks was created by the defection of the Cuban consuls general in Buenos Aires and Montevideo shortly before Che arrived. They resigned and asked for political asylum in Argentina...
...invited Brazil's President Jânio Quadros to visit the U.S. in December (Quadros accepted). Then Dillon was off to Punta del Este, where trouble immediately showed its hairy face. Among the 1,400 delegates gathered in the seaside resort was Castro's left-hand man. Che Guevara, who could be expected to use every weapon in his well-stocked arsenal to confuse* and defeat what he terms the "Alliance for Exploitation...
...Che's presence at the meeting might well boost one U.S. goal-to convince Latin America's conservatives that the time has come for real social and eco nomic reform. Open opposition to the aims of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress is scarce, but wealthy landowners in many Latin countries assume that talk of reform must apply to someone else. In Guatemala, opposition by coffee growers and businessmen has managed to kill Conservative President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes' attempts to initiate a much-needed income tax. In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor...
Buenos Aires School of Law and Social Sciences. A left-wing student group invited her to lecture on Yankee imperialism. She had barely opened her mouth before students outside the hall began whistling and catcalling, "Let's swap Che's mother for a tractor!" A tear-gas bomb popped in the auditorium, rocks smashed through windows and doors. The battle raged for more than two hours until a Molotov cocktail set the place afire...
Pills from the U.S. As the school was closed for repairs, Celia gave a gossipy interview to reporters about Che's doings. "My boy is a very busy young man. He has recently been examined by a Soviet doctor, who prescribed some pills for his asthma that are doing him lots of good. These pills, of course, are made in the U.S. The last time I saw my boy, he had a deep wound on his right cheek. He told me it happened while he was cleaning his gun, but I don't believe...