Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclaims is pure myth. After so many years I find that my home village still has no road and can be reached only by donkey. The young are still growing up untutored and illiterate. The regime has no popular support. It's like Batista's government in Cuba last New Year's Eve. It's perpetuated in power solely by force. Alas, it is difficult to create a guerrilla campaign like the Fidel Castro movement in Cuba because Portugal is too closely policed, populated and cultivated-it doesn't have Cuba's jungle areas...
...help against "international pirates," sent an investigating team. While patrol boats and planes contributed by the U.S., Ecuador and Colombia scouted the Caribbean and the Panamanian coast for signs of a rumored reinforcement fleet, Invader Chief Cesar Vega met the Cuban officers and the OAS negotiators, and surrendered. Cuba was expected to ask Panama to give the invaders leniency, a quality unknown to the Castro firing squads at home...
Flying over Cuba at 19,000 feet, Castro broadcast a harangue down to his subjects via Havana radio stations: "It is difficult to adapt myself to the idea of passing over Cuba. Naturally, I feel emotional." But he kept right on going-to Brasilia and a meeting with President Juscelino Kubitschek, to Buenos Aires, where President Arturo Frondizi pointedly kept him from provocative public appearances...
Insiders explained why the Prime Minister had time for all the world but Cuba: after telling U.S. audiences that Communists had "no influence," Castro did not want to risk embarrassment by a big Red show at last week's labor-sponsored...
...Fellow travelers work on the "Commission for the Revision of Cuban History Books." Suggested change: U.S. troops came to Cuba in 1898 for "imperialistic reasons" after the Spanish were licked...