Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commodore. If collective action is not now feasible, what else can the U.S. do to arrest the Communist dominance of Cuba? The air was thick last week with rumors that Kennedy is about to do what he talked of doing during last fall's campaign: attempting "to strengthen the non-Batista democratic forces in exile and in Cuba itself." Mexican officials privately (and unhappily) fear that the U.S. may be planning to give massive support to an invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles. As proof, those who predict an invasion pointed to last week's meeting...
...handful of avowedly anti-Castro governments such as Guatemala and Nicaragua would welcome a successful invasion of Cuba and would not mind if the U.S. overtly supported it. A few other governments, including Venezuela and Colombia, might welcome an attempt to overthrow Castro so long as U.S. support was sufficiently well camouflaged to make official denials reasonably credible...
...Luis Muñoz Marin showed up at a Manhattan hotel to give a pep talk on the Commonwealth's economic possibilities to 500 U.S. businessmen. When he finished, the first question was: "What about Castro?" Fearful that Castroism has high export value, many U.S. businessmen wonder if Cuba's nationalization of U.S. investment (totaling $1.5 billion) may be an augury of things to come across the hemisphere...
Fidel Castro's revolution continues to devour its young. The latest to be condemned to the firing squad: Major William Morgan, 32, U.S.-born adventurer, who, only a year ago, won Castro's praise for foiling a guerrilla landing in Cuba by playing double agent. Found guilty of smuggling arms to anti-Castro guerrillas, Morgan at 10:30 one night last week became the 598th counter-revolutionary to be executed by the Castro government...
Berle was unable to get Brazil's backing for a united Latin American front against Castro's Cuba. As the futile talk ended, Berle stuck out his hand to say goodbye. Quadros refused to shake it. Then, to the undisguised dismay of Brazilian Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, Quadros pointedly turned his back on the special envoy of the President...