Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acquisition of these powerful big brothers-who might or might not in a pinch come to Castro's aid-did not stop Che from training his first line of defense, a civilian militia reported to be 350,000 strong. Needing a guerrilla-warfare textbook for the militiamen, Che wrote one. Excerpts: "The great exasperation of the enemy army will be that of not finding anything solid to come up against; everything will be a gelatinous mass, moving, impenetrable, that goes on retreating and, while wounding on all sides, does not present a solid front...
...book, Che also talks of the effect of the Cuban revolution on the rest of Latin America: it "breaks down all of the barriers of the news agencies and spreads its truth like a blast of gunpowder among the American masses who are anxious for a better life." Cuban diplomats across the hemisphere are hard at work spreading Che's "truth" and Communist propaganda. Allied with anyone who will cooperate, from Communists to sincere social work ers, they organize July 26 movements, show films of revolutionary progress, lend a hand in subversive plots, campaign for support among the backland...
...prove ineffectual. Russia has promised to purchase the entire quota cut at only $24 million less than the artificially high price the U.S. used to pay. Communist China has promised to buy 500,000 tons more. But Communist bargains, involving overpriced goods, usually turn out to be poor bargains. Che has increased Cuba's foreign exchange reserves from $50 million to $196 million, largely by the simple device of refusing to pay his U.S. bills. The Soviets are keeping Cuba supplied with oil at prices running $14 million a year less than the price of the Venezuelan crude...
...itself squared away in Latin America, though it belatedly recognizes its obligations and perhaps its opportunities. Luckily Che Guevara and the Brothers Castro, with their own hostile designs on Latin America, are meeting increased resistance abroad, and are having increased difficulty at home...
...California-born U.S. citizen. Her husband was the son of an Argentine who took part in the gold rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...