Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro's marathon visit to Moscow was over, and his beaming host had a few words of farewell before sending the honored guest off to southern Russia to loll in the sun for a while. With Castro standing beside him in Lenin Stadium, Nikita Khrushchev by turns praised Cuba's heroic "revolt against tyranny," pleaded for coexistence with the U.S., and angrily threatened nuclear war if the U.S. dared lay a hand on Cuba. He even rang in the American Declaration of Independence, quoting: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive . . . it is the right of the people...
...hardly mentioned new Russian economic aid for Cuba-which will be needed in massive amounts to prevent destruction of an economy that used to provide one of the hemisphere's highest standards of living. Last week a new boatload of 750 refugees landed in Miami with reports of ever higher prices, tighter rations and lower wages. "Cuba is a madhouse," said one bitter arrival. "Our Russian 'experts' live like landlords, we Cubans live like slaves...
Even the Communists no longer try to hide what Labor Minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez last week aptly called "truly a great mess." In a 31-hr. TV interview, Martinez Sanchez outlined eight new labor categories in which Cuba's 2,400,000 workers soon are to be frozen in a drive to get more work for less pay. To qualify for the maximum pay in each category, workers will have to fulfill new work norms based on productivity. Those who fall short face even further reductions in wages that are already as much as 50% lower than the days...
...latest U.S. estimates put Cuba's gross national product down 30% from the pre-Castro level, and still falling. Mismanagement, shortages of equipment and fertilizer, and some sabotage have cut this year's sugar crop to less than 3,000,000 tons-little more than half the pre-Castro average. Cuba's non-military debt to Moscow, already some $300 million, is expected to reach $800 million by year's end. Food is so short that staples are up 40% since 1958. But that is just the legal price hike. On the thriving black market that...
...Poetess Matilde Marmol, cultural attache in the Venezuelan embassy-until last year, when Peruvian police discovered that Matilde, unknown to her government, was smuggling Communist propaganda into Peru. Matilde hurried off to Havana. A few months later Javier went too, as one of 90 Peruvian students offered scholarships in Cuba...