Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense, 4 a.m. Cabinet session climaxing months of disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht Gramma...
...Guevara has grabbed off half the burgeoning National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA), which is rapidly matching the rebel army in size and importance. Its headquarters is the most tightly guarded building in Havana. As boss of INRA's industrialization division, Guevara has a free hand for revamping Cuba; last week he seized the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. His appointment as National Bank chief touched off a run on savings banks-which Guevara thought "logical," considering his "fame of being extremely radical...
...around and under the Fidel-Raúl-Che triumvirate give anti-Communists no cause for comfort. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, chief of INRA's land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt...
...labor leaders and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week, in a rededication to the faith that became a tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity. By radio Pope John XXIII voiced hope that Catholics would "save the Christian face of Cuba...
...triumvirate still has a popular mandate, but its popular power is dwindling. It has all the guns, but history shows that force alone is no enduring answer in Cuba...