Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitter Harvest. What is sadly visible on the face of Cuba is clearer still in the statistics of economy. The country runs on sugar, and under Communism sugar has been ruined. Little or no cane has been replanted for three years ; most fields have not been fertilized. Many of the ex pert cane cutters who normally harvest the crop are in the militia, and the "vol unteers" who replace them have hacked the stalks so badly that normal regrowth is stopped or stunted. In pre-Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which...
With the rainy season beginning, said Guevara, only three or four sugar mills of 160 in Cuba were meeting what he called "conservative targets." The outlook: 4,000,000 tons or less, which, with last year's carryover, will bring Cuba only $336 million, or a bare 53% of sugar earnings in pre-Castro 1957. Even that sum will not be in hard cash, but in high-priced barter goods from the Soviet bloc, which has replaced the U.S. as Cuba's major trading partner...
...hills to start his guerrilla war, they again dismissed him as an ineffectual "adventurer"-a Communist phrase for amateurs. But Castro survived and grew stronger, and the possibility of an alliance began to dawn on both sides. Though Castro was a hero in the hills with great popularity among Cuba's peasants, he had little support in Havana itself. In April 1958 he called a general strike which failed miserably. Communists blamed the failure on the fact that they had not participated. Actually, the strike was doomed before it started. Cuba's workers were among the most advanced...
...Hour Is Coming. Bias Roca was ready with his apparatus, and with his made-in-Moscow policies. Now he offered both to Castro, who had defeated Batista but had not the vaguest idea how to run Cuba, or carry on his revolution...
...expanded the O.R.I. directorate to 25 members, consisting of 15 of his own men, only ten of Roca's old guard. At the top of O.R.I., there would now be a five-man secretariat headed by himself; Roca, listed No. 5, was the only old Communist named. Cuba would now have a Vice Premier to take over in case anything happened to the Maximum Leader himself: he would be Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Then Castro went on TV to denounce the Reds and reassert his own leadership. He could not lambaste Roca (he was too strong...