Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that foreign exchange reserves had fallen from $214 million to $170 million and would probably fall to $100 million by year's end. He warned that "we shall have to look for substitutes" but promised Cubans that the Communist bloc's "perfect planning" would see them through. "Che" might well bring back more big machinery from the East, but he could not deliver the washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners that Cubans have learned to regard as necessities. Last week Castro propagandists put on a show of defiance, crying: "War to the death against the Yankee imperialists...
...Castro hesitated not a step in his march to Moscow. The word in Havana was that Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara would go to Russia in November and there ask for increased aid, possibly even consigning Cuba's entire sugar crop to the Soviets. Unless Russia was prepared to play Santa Claus, the deal could only worsen Cuba's economic plight. Just diverting one-third of this year's harvest to Iron Curtain countries at their prices (3¼? per lb. v. 4? production cost) was enough to slash sugar workers' wages from $1.31 daily...
Thanks for your cover-picture showing Mr. K., Mao Tse-tung and Cuban Communist Che Guevara. It makes us literally feel their venomous breaths over our shoulder...
Your fine article on Che Guevara of Cuba was illuminating, and frightening for the future of our nation...
What a disgrace to the medical profession! Instead of devoting his time and skill to the alleviation of human suffering, Che Guevara chooses to dedicate himself to the destruction of men's souls...