Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paunchy civil engineer-turned saboteur, speaks English, but he speaks Spanish English. He gropes carefully for words, as much from lack of confidence in his English as from concern to see that he is understood. The underground movement which he heads has been responsible for nation-wide destruction in Cuba in the last eleven months, but from his quiet and pacific demeanor little of this could be inferred...
...Miami now with their mother. "During the fight against Batista we split the family up, some in one house, some in another. We weren't afraid. Also I have one brother, and I lost one brother, and then I have a sister, who is in Cuba...
...engineer Ray built his first bridge, then he built the first vehicular tunnel in Cuba. After that he was Project Manager for the Havana Hilton Hotel. "The first job cost a million dollars; the tunnel was $6 1/2 million job; the Hilton project was $20 million. I say this so you see the progress...
...have any idea at that time that some of the 26th of July leaders were Communists? "In the last month only we begin to be suspicious." Was Castro then a Communist? "Yes. I think he was always a Communist; I think he has always in mind Cuba in the Russian bloc. He waited a year. In the first year after the Revolution were many reforms we wish to keep. But I think always he has plans...
...Senor Ray is the same idealist who instituted the honor system at Havana University fifteen years ago. Between the strength of his convictions ("I believe in freedom,' he says) and his perception of conditions now in Cuba ("The Communists are everywhere") he finds the determination to fight, and, without any doubt, to risk his life. Whether he continues in politics after Castro is deposed, like all questions concerning the future in Cuba, "will depend on conditions we meet there. I have no plans, but I will serve if I am needed...