Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to Scott's on-the-spot perspectives, we had the benefit of research from our Caribbean bureau in Miami and the Latin American desk in our Washington bureau, which monitor Cuban radio broadcasts, read the press, interview refugees and diplomats coming out of Cuba. Bureaus and stringers throughout Latin America concentrated on one meaningful aspect of the story: the extent of Castroite subversion in other parts of the hemisphere. With the help of these reports, Writer Philip Osborne and Senior Editor George Daniels fashioned their study of Cuba's decaying revolution-and continuing capacity for mischief...
...Cuban with relatives in the U.S. depart from the Communist island free and clear after Oct. 10, and 2) make a statement "in a few days" that would clear up the mysterious seven-month disappearance of Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who ranks as Cuba's top theoretician, ace guerrilla fighter and longtime No. 2 to Castro himself...
What has happened to Castro is disappointment, disillusion and decay. After nearly seven years of power, the grandiose dreams are ended. Gone is the hope of a swift socialist transformation to make agricultural Cuba a Caribbean industrial colossus; the Cuban economy is in tatters, back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer. Gone is the vision of leading a vast Latin American popular revolution; that revolution is being ably led by the democratic left of Peru's Fernando Belaunde Terry, Venezuela's Raul Leoni and Chile's Eduardo Frei-while Castro's once-great...
That is the reality in Cuba today. The Cuban dictator's heart may still lift at thoughts of a violent, Chinese-style revolutionary struggle against "Yanqui imperialism." But his stomach is in Moscow-and he finally seems to realize...
...return, the Kremlin demands the imposition of a Soviet-style political rule on Cuba, the institutionalization of the regime, an end to the "cult of personality," even coexistence with the U.S.-up to a point. As one U.S. Castrologist says, "Castro will never become the apostle of peaceful coexistence. Yet it does seem clear that he is subject to Soviet pressure and has no choice other than to accept it." The refugees and Che Guevara are two sources of acute embarrassment to Castro, and therefore to Moscow...