Word: counterterror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spreading resistance represented no major threat to the Castro regime as yet. But as the opposition began to take organized form, it led Castro, like Batista before him, into the usual dictator's mistake of counterterror. Last week there were reliable reports that a Castro cop, in a moment of rage, killed a 14-year-old involved in the opposition. Just such brutality had mobilized an indifferent Cuban public against Batista; the opposition plainly intended to provoke Castro into the same error...