Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied by every device of economics, technology...
Respect for Views. Canada would indeed like to increase trade-and not simply because the prospect of a slice of the former $545 million-a-year U.S.-Cuba trade looked irresistible. A tide of nationalism and of disenchantment with U.S. leadership is running in Canada. Hardly a day goes by without calls for Canada to assert its own leadership and go its own self-interested way. Last week Prime Minister Diefenbaker rose in the House of Commons to explain Ottawa's official position. Said he: "We respect the views of other nations in their relations with Cuba just...
More Talk Than Deals. From south of the border came strongly worded protests: Canada is sending Cuba "everything this country is denying it," charged Louisiana Senator Russell Long. He urged the U.S. to stop buying Canadian oil and then watch the Canadians "race to Washington to tell us they are quitting dealing with Castro...
...closer examination, it was clear that there was more talk than trade in the Cuba-Canada picture. Despite a doubling of exports to Canada, from $809,000 in October 1959 to $1,675,000 in October 1960, Canada's shipments to Cuba for all 1960 were running $3,000,000 below 1959's $12 million. Castro's economic agents talked big deals, but so far have signed few contracts. A U.S. embassy official looked into reports that U.S. wheeler-dealers were sending embargoed goods to Canada, then transshipping them via the U.S. in sealed freight cars...
...Ecuador last week was the stage for an increasingly familiar scene. In a handful of cities, mobs dragged the U.S. flag through the streets, stoned U.S.-Ecuadorian "friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...