Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam among the world's four worst areas in terms of peasant landlessness, that classic precondition for rural insurrection.* As much as 58% of the rural population lived a hand-to-mouth existence as tenant farmers-a higher level of landlessness than in prerevolutionary China, Russia or Cuba...
...organizations, the Irish Republican Army. Best estimates are that the army in Northern Ireland numbers no more than 200 hard-core gunmen, and deaths and arrests have decimated its cadre of trained leaders. But the I.R.A. clearly has no shortage of potential recruits, and the recent history of Malaya, Cuba and Cyprus provides ample evidence that small guerrilla groups can survive for years against much larger military forces...
...author has gone to some effort to make this extraordinary book comprehensible to English-speaking readers; his Englishing goes far beyond mere translation. Nevertheless, some of it is understandable only in a general way to those not familiar with Cuba and the Spanish language...
...seems to have four problems. First, the group has failed to make abstract issues concrete and real to people--it seems to have convinced no one that statism is a real problem. Second, they have scattered their resources on a lot of different topics--Cuba, the wage and price freeze, taxes, etc.--and they would get much further by concentrating on a single issue. Third, the organization's strong anti-communism is negative and distracting from the central issue of individual freedom. Finally, by taking a hard-line anti-communist stance, they make themselves apologists for the army...
...Your Brother." Nápoles and Ramos, who were Rapidez students in Cuba and followed their mentor to Mexico City, recall that the Kid's instruction did not end in the ring. Stopping one of his charges in the street, Rapidez would pick out another boy twice his size and say: "I'll give you a peso if you can knock him out. I mean cold." Nápoles figures that he won 20 cold pesos that way. Ramos was less fortunate. Son of a police sergeant who sired 53 children, he remembers: "Every time I got ready...