Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors applauded loud and long at Castro's ringing defense of a free press, "the first enemy of dictatorship." Back in Cuba, a war crimes court sentenced former Pueblo Columnist Fernando Miranda to ten years' hard labor in the Zapata swamps for calling the Castro rebels "thieves and bandits...
...which in January invited him to its convention-luncheon (and noted last week that "the demand for tickets was the greatest since General MacArthur returned from the Far East"). In 15-minute answers, Castro criticized the U.S. sugar-quota policy, defended the execution of "war criminals." (Firing squads in Cuba shot 28 more last week, raising the total to 521.) He evaded questions about his stand for neutrality in the cold...
...chasm is widening between Cuba's Fidel Castro and the upper classmen of Caribbean democracy-Costa Rica's ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marín-who at first welcomed Castro as the young new champion of freedom...
...embarrass me about Puerto Rico"-a place Figueres admires as progressive and Castro mistrusts as colonial-"and don't create any international problems for me." Figueres buttoned his lip about Puerto Rico, spoke out against the menace of Soviet imperialism. Castro publicly rebuked his guest, announced Cuba's neutrality between East and West (TIME, April...
...three months in prison, Alan Robert Nye, 32, of Whiting, Ind., this week faced a three-man revolutionary tribunal in Havana and pleaded not guilty to a charge of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro. The Korean war pilot (U.S. Navy) heard the prosecution charge that he was brought to Cuba last December by Dictator Batista's Chief of Staff, given a telescopic-sighted rifle, sent into the hills to hunt down Castro for $100,000. Nye said that he accepted the assignment only as a means of joining Castro's rebel army. The verdict was guilty...