Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic unrest, an atmosphere of revolution, and a genuine hope for the progress of constitutional democracy are the principal facets of the political scene in Argentina, Cuba, and Venezuela, Bertram E. Johanson said last night...
...will be seeing Cuba more and more in the news," continued Johanson. He described the present military stalement between the outnumbered rebel forces of Fidel Castro and the troops of the present Batista regime. But conservatives are beginning to support the "radical" Castro, he commented, adding that the Batista leadership has been weakened by purges...
Popular Opinion. The north coast Nicaro mines, source of 11 % of the free world's nickel, are out of production: last week government bombers, aiming for the rebels, instead hit Nicaro warehouses containing $500,000 worth of machinery. The sugar crop. Cuba's economic lifeblood. 75% of which comes from rebel-saturated Oriente. Camagüey and Las Villas provinces, is largely in Castro's hands, as the January harvest approaches...
Castro's Cuba includes ten airfields and at least two captured DC-3s (as well as some light planes). From secret bases, probably in Central America and Florida, planes ferry in arms. Castro now has some heavy machine guns, bazookas. 20-mm. and 75-mm. recoilless rifles. He has a network of two dozen radio transmitters...
...Castro, by contrast, gets ardent backing from students, professional classes who chafe at the indignities and corruption of dictatorship, and the political left. But the Cuban masses refuse the danger and cost of active support for Castro and, by abstaining, line up for Batista. The eventual solution for divided Cuba is no more foreseeable than that of another violence-torn island-far-off Cyprus...