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...economic reforms hit Cuba's upper class, the plot grew quickly. Armando Caiñas Milanés, head of the National Cattlemen's Association, joined, as did leading businessmen and cashiered Batista army officers. The plotters made Morgan delegate to anti-Castro groups in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
Cuba's ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista disclosed a recent meeting with a bird of his own feather. Now enjoying uneasy asylum in the Dominican Republic, Batista was strolling along Ciudad Trujillo's seafronting Avenida George Washington, minding his own business, when who should come along, astride a motor scooter, but Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, also on the lam. According to Batista, they chatted about no counterrevolutions, just the weather and other pleasantries. Observed Batista: "Perón has got a good sense of humor and he was very friendly...
...polite crowd of 15,000 sat through a barrage of speeches in a Ciudad Trujillo park one muggy night last week, applauding with the kind of suppressed boredom usually found at amateur theatricals. The occasion: a rally of "reaffirmation" for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In similar spirit, the Dominican Senate addressed itself to a resolution to erect two more busts of Trujillo in the capital, already so statue studded that new sites are scarce. The resolution passed...
Middle-Class Grumbling. Opposition to Trujillo comes mostly from the middle and upper classes-about a quarter of the population of 2,800,000. "These people travel and have broader knowledge," explains a foreign resident in Ciudad Trujillo. "They hate to take orders. They live well but insecurely...
...mounted landowners who patrol the hills in pairs and call themselves the "Horsemen of the East." On paper, another outfit called the "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion" has 100,000 bureaucrats, ex-soldiers and foreign mercenaries, including a few veterans of the Spanish Blue Division. The legion drills weekly on a Ciudad Trujillo fairground in trim new uniforms, could probably muster 16,000 with arms. Though the dictator's vast bureaucracy and army are shot through with men who secretly oppose him, these men see no reasonable alternative...