Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of this article, a graduate of the class of '56, is a Harvard Law School student, currently on a leave of absence. He was in Cuba from January 13 through January 21, shortly after the present government came into power. The photographs of alleged Batista atrocities which were released by members of the present regime, are supplied by the author in order to help illuminate the motivations which lie behind the revolutionary trials. The CRIMSON does not necessarily agree with the editorial opinions expressed by the author...
There is an exhilarating air in Cuba today. One can sense the new-born optimism and joy in the atmosphere of the carabets. As more than one bar-tender told me, it was taboo in recent years to discuss matters of politics in public, for one never knew when his remarks might be overheard by a chivato (informer) and construed as being unfavorable to the ruling dictatorship of Juan Batista. Life was short and the end unpleasant for the few bold Cubans who dared to be so outspoken. But now the carabets are alive with gay music and singing...
...labor unions. Although many of his soldiers have confided to me their willingness to attack the Dominican Republic in a two-pronged blow at Batista and Trujillo, Castro himself professes no knowledge of any such plans. His manner, moreover, suggested that Batista's threat to return to Cuba at the head of 10,000 troops need not even be taken seriously...
...outspoken broadcast of La Voz Dominicana called Batista an unscrupulous, evil man and a petty figure "hated by the very stones in Cuba...
...thud of Batista's fall reverberated in far-off Paraguay. The official radio, broadcasting from the Interior Ministry, urged Strongman Alfredo Stroessner to proceed with "preventive executions to avoid a blood bath like Cuba's in Paraguay." One night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses...