Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian Fatteners. The best estimate is that the guerrillas are in four bands, totaling possibly 1,000 men, and strongest in the area around Huancayo. Their leaders are Communist professionals: Guillermo Lobaton, 34, a Peruvian trained in insurgency in Cuba and Red China and reported to have fought with the Viet Cong, and Castroite Lawyer Luis de la Puente, 36, wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. The terrorists preach the usual Communist line about capitalist exploitation and free land for all, attempt to counter the government's own considerable efforts at aid and social reform among the Indians...
Through the 90-mile-wide Straits of Florida separating the U.S. from Cuba runs some of the most bizarre traffic ever seen on any body of water in the world. Desperate Cubans flee north in sailboats, rafts-even inner tubes. At night, weird vessels churn among the mangrove and coral cays on secret missions for no one is quite sure whom. One morning last week, a U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat 65 miles off Cuba drew alongside one of the strangest yet: an aged, 165-ft., grey-hulled converted yacht named the Seven Seas, adrift and seemingly unmanned-until...
...board the Seven Seas except Elwin and the cook, Davison. "They called me a Communist and a thief," he said, "so I shot them." He said that Díaz and most of the others had been bullyragging him mercilessly for his pro-Castro sympathies. He had fled Cuba last fall in a boat, leaving behind his wife and three daughters. Now he longed to return. On the night of the shooting, he had the helm on the bridge when Captain Díaz started going at him again. Díaz, he said, sneered that in Tampa next...
...then hurled the bodies of Díaz and Franco into the Straits and swung the ship toward Cuba. Two hours later, the diesel stopped. Ramírez set off in the dinghy. Inevitably, the Gulf Stream carried him back toward Miami...
...European situation, where the possibility of imperialism is understandably slight. Btu in the undeveloped world? Mr. Lasch hints that the old Marxist analysis of world politics, against which Niebuhr and Sidney Hook reacted so violently, might have more application than we thought. "It was widely said that Latin America, Cuba in particular, was the 'blind spot' of the Kennedy administration, otherwise liberal in its foreign policies. What was not generally appreciated was that Latin America was the blind spot of the new realism as a whole, to which the Kennedy regime was so heavily committed for its ideas about international...