Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their...
...have disappeared from the shelves. Last month, to fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...
...Much Left? The meat shortage is a good example of Castro's reckless ways and the later reckoning. Seizing the great cattle ranches of Camaguey province, the "Texas of Cuba," Castro's men slaughtered breeding cattle by the thousands to show Cubans what a good life the revolution had brought. Before long, the herds were decimated. Fortnight ago, Castro ordered a count to see how many cattle were left, and last week called a national conference to ponder "production deficiencies...
...afflict much of the Cuban economy. The Communist bloc barters oil. guns, MIG jets, some machinery and foodstuffs for sugar, plus other Cuban produce such as tuna. But the Reds do not, and apparently cannot, conduct the $1 billion two-way trade in the range of goods that Cuba once enjoyed with...
Tobacco for Tampa. A trickle of trade between Cuba and the U.S. remains-$30 million in the first six months of this year. Because of a U.S. Longshoremen's Association boycott, all cargoes to or from Cuba are handled at small, non-union docks in the U.S. They travel in foreign ships and small, privately owned U.S. vessels. The biggest regular shipping center is Tampa, Fla.. where two converted World War II landing craft make the Havana run every week or so. The bulk of U.S. imports is tobacco-$11.3 million worth during the first half...