Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are enough tangled problems in our world without irresponsible journalism coming on the scene to complicate matters further. What TIME hopes to accomplish by setting Cuba, Bolivia and Latin America against the U.S., I do not know. TIME's smug self-righteousness and perverted sense of journalistic humor may tickle the fancies of the uninformed here. I was in Cuba, and I can no longer laugh with...
Fidel Castro is plainly convinced that in the realm of definitive justice, nothing beats a firing squad-even if Cuba's constitution forbids capital punishment. Last week he announced that his government would draft a new law demanding firing-squad executions for embezzlers of government money...
...Claimed "the Caribbean is ours." Answered Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Cuba's "aggressors" had better stay out of the Dominican Republic "unless they want to see their beards and brains flying about like butterflies...
...Pledged free elections, heard his supporters roar back, "No elections!" Replied the Prime Minister piously: "This shows to what extent politics have become discredited in Cuba...
...Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico had run or were planning oral vaccination campaigns...