Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Letters section (and, indeed, of the daily newspapers) well know, TIME has been hotly criticized in recent weeks for its coverage of unpleasant news in some countries friendly to the U.S., notably for stories of the economic crisis in Bolivia, the aftermath of revolution in Cuba, and government corruption in the Philippines. Replying to this criticism has given us the opportunity to restate some truths about TIME, and I thought you might like to see where we stand. The following is the text of one reply to a critic...
...tone of the Latin American speakers at last week's meeting verged on the desperate. Said Argentine President Arturo Frondizi: "The destiny of democracy is at stake." Cuba's Fidel Castro dramatically showed up and won cheers with a blatant demand for $30 billion over a ten-year period. "I realize this means a sacrifice for the U.S. taxpayer," he cried. "But they are so much richer than...
...President Ernesto de la Guardia. As the landing craft taking them off to jail in Panama City backed off the beach, Expedition Commander Cesar Vega and his 83 men (plus a 24-year-old Cuban girl) broke into a song that Castro's rebels used to sing in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. The girls of Nombre...
False Premise. The invaders were recruited in Cuba in recent months by an assortment of Panamanians, including Career Rebel Rubén Miró, who was tried and acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British...
...invaders set sail at dawn one day in the 55-ft. yacht Mayari from Batabanó, a fishing village on Cuba's south coast. Three were drowned upon landing at Nombre de Dios, including one leader who preached "Never lay down your gun" so convincingly that he could not let go of his as it dragged him down. The remaining invaders moved into nearby Nombre de Dios in such manly fashion that three love affairs quickly blossomed. When he was asked to marry the three couples, the village priest refused: "These hurried romances need a cooling-off period...