Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...
...Cuba's Communists were bragging. As butchers go, they are still bush league. But Castro is trying hard. To the 587 listed and the many concealed killings over the past two years, the dictatorship last week added the lives of two more Cubans, both onetime armymen accused of rebellion. At week's end six more men-American youths allegedly planning to join the growing rebellion-were tried with the death penalty demanded...
...Hanging for a Shooting. Castro's rationale for the killings is the savage rebellion against him, now approaching the flash point of open civil war. To 1,100 graduating schoolteachers, Cuba's dictator cried that the rebels in the hills hanged three captured Fidelistas (unconfirmed reports put the real figure at 20), including an 18-year-old schoolteacher. "The agents of imperialism killed him because he was young-a Negro-a teacher of the poor-because he carried a Communist card," cried Castro. "Not a single one will escape," he shouted, promising "tenacious, implacable persecution, the like...
...horror talk, intended to terrorize, only increased the tension across Cuba. In Havana, 40 black-clad women marched in silent funeral-like procession on the presidential palace carrying the Cuban flag and a banner reading CEASE EXECUTION OF OUR SONS. A mob gathered to shout insults at the marchers, but individual soldiers left the crowd to protect the women, permitted them to make their mute protest, then escorted them away to safety. The rebels in the hills were filtering down at night to capture militiamen on lonely guard duty, promising Castro an eye for an eye, a hanging...
...that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small groups of well-trained, night-wise guerrillas have been landed to reinforce the original bands. More are coming...