Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main danger of Cuba is not the presence of a few thousand Russian soldiers, but the sponsoring of subversive activities in Latin America," Demitrio Boersner said Friday. The Venezuelan journalist for La Republica said in a CRIMSON interview that economic sanctions against the Castro regime are the best policy as long as Castro continues his hostile course...
...Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, New York's Senator Kenneth Keating, who was "so right when the Kennedy CIA was so wrong" about Cuba...
...with Canada and Mexico. At the very least, he insisted, it should be consulted before U.S. oil policies are drastically revised. Kennedy agreed "in principle" that the quota system discriminates against Venezuela, promised to see to it "in practice" that Venezuela gets its fair share of the market. On Cuba, the two men had no argument. Said Betancourt: "The government that I head and I personally have taken a position toward the Communist regime in Havana and toward international Communism that is free of equivocation, half-tones, or balancing on a tightrope." During the Cuba missile crisis, Venezuela contributed...
...eight days the Communists had led the Venezuelan and U.S. navies a merry chase, ducking south to Brazil when everyone thought they were headed north to Cuba, ignoring U.S. Navy orders to turn back when they were spotted by search planes, finally scooting into Brazilian waters when pursuing destroyers drew near. Now, smartly turned out in clean khakis, blue berets and FALN arm bands, the hijackers made a production of surrendering the Anzotegui and its 36-man crew to the Brazilians. Venezuela would get the ship and the crew back, and the hijackers would probably get political asylum, despite Venezuelan...
...depth analysis. Niebuhr, comparing Nazism and Communism, concluded that "Communism is infinitely more dangerous" because it is "a frightful simplification of the Messianic dreams which have haunted Western civilization for ages," sometimes with "frightful results." Foreign Policy Analyst Theodore Draper did a detailed study of Castro's Cuba, decided that "Fidel's ego may give the Communists as much trouble as it has given many others." China Expert Valentin Chu discovered enough evidence of widespread famine in Red China for a 7,500-word article that was reprinted in six languages...