Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another influential supporter is 71-year-old Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave history's chapter heading to destalinization. In 1960 Evtushenko rated a passport, has subsequently wandered widely in Western Europe, Africa and elsewhere abroad. On two trips to Cuba he gathered material for a movie scenario, visited the house where Hemingway wrote...
Time and again he made it clear that Brazil intends to maintain its "independent" foreign policy, including relations with Communist Cuba and the Soviet bloc. But he did not interpret independence as neutrality; he expects Brazil to pursue democracy's objectives-among them a desire to end Communism in Cuba...
...trial" of the 1,179 prisoners taken in the Bay of Pigs invasion was over, and Fidel Castro himself was expected to announce swift sentences in a televised speech before his Union of Communist Youth. But Cuba's Prime Minister decided to let the prisoners-and the world-wait awhile. He did not mention the men in Havana's Principe Fortress. Instead he turned his attention to foreign affairs and, in his own peculiar brand of insult, discoursed on the character of two fellow Latin American chiefs of state...
Castro's main target was Ecuador's Carlos Julio Arosemena, who, under pressure of his own military, had just made Ecuador the 15th hemisphere nation to break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst...
...invasion leaders, for a total of $62 million. Otherwise, they faced 30 years at hard labor. The ransom sum ("Indemnity," the Cubans called it) was more than three times the amount Castro originally demanded in his infamous Tractors-for-Prisoners offer last year, and it provided eloquent testimony to Cuba's Communist-caused economic chaos...