Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international cliche, there was no evidence of international conspiracy. Castroite Professor Heberto Castillo, head of the Communist-lining Mexican Liberation Front, was presumed to be lending a hand somewhere, and the cops spotted half a dozen Black Panthers on their way ' home from training in Cuba and quickly shipped them on to the U.S. But even the Mexican government ceased last week to blame "outside agitators," as it had in the riots' first days. Instead, a commission appointed to study "the problems of education and youth in the country" began looking into the students' grievances...
...acre farm was confiscated, his religious preaching got him arrested nine times, and unruly mobs hounded him with taunts of "Worm!", "Imperialist!" and "CIA agent!" No wonder Gerardo Gonzalez, 42, decided that it was time to leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known...
...high schools responded by organizing a demonstration for July 26. The government granted them permission to hold the demonstration. It had also, however, given permission for the annual pro-Cuba parade to be held in the same place. The pro-Cuba demonstrators were supporters of Castro and thus considered Communist. When the two demonstrations came close to each other the police intervened with clubs and guns on the pretext of stopping a riot. Thirty-six prisoners were taken (one of them was Pete Seeger's daughter...
...more students "disappeared." Some were killed, some made prisoners. In an attempt to move the government to action, the buses previously captured were burned. The newspapers (most of which are controlled by the government) branded the movement as "communist-inspired." They traced the movement back to the "communist" pro-Cuba demonstration and claimed that the students were being incited to riot and demonstrate by non-student communist forces. (This was clearly not the case -- the communists played little part in the events up to this point and were to play an even smaller part in the events that were...
Hammer on the Tree. Montejo tells how, in 1868, he escaped the whips, chains and involuntary toil of a sugar plantation and lived a jungle-boy existence for twelve years. In 1880, when slavery was abolished in Cuba, he returned to human society. His descriptions of village life resurrect a forgotten world. He recalls work, fiestas, cock fights, fashions and trysts in the cane fields with a simplicity that imparts an aura of vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact...