Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some time Padilla's verse was allowed to circulate freely, even after his critical stance toward the regime had begun to attract attention abroad. But he ran into major trouble in 1968, when an international panel of leftist intellectuals assembled by Castro's government awarded Cuba's national poetry prize to Out of the Game, a collection of Padilla's verse that had been banned by the regime as "revolutionarily unfit." One poem suggested that anyone who wanted to get along in the new Communist Cuba should learn...
...award enraged the rigidly orthodox leaders of Cuba's Writers and Artists Union, and Padilla's book was published in Cuba only after the insertion of a prologue pronouncing it "full of skepticism, ambiguities, critical philosophy and anti-historicism." Almost immediately, Verde Olivo, the Cuban armed forces magazine, began a series of anti-Padilla broadsides, accusing him of "assisting the CIA by erroneous writing...
...lives in France, insists that the poet's "selfcriticism could have been signed in only one way: under torture." That is unproven, but one thing is beyond dispute. Padilla's evidently forced recantation only further estranged Castro from his quondam admirers. "The pit between Cuba's leaders and the non-Communist European or Latin American Left is being dug deeper," wrote Marcel Niedergang, a longtime friend and supporter of Castro, in France's Le Monde. For his part, Fidel turned his big-bore verbal artillery against the intellectuals. "So they are at war with us," said...
...dialogue" with Peking. In other steps toward establishing a new posture in a changing world, McMahon gave the Soviet Union permission to establish a trade office and a shipping agency in Sydney, and approved the sale of $2,240,000 worth of Australian sugar-cane harvesting machines to Cuba, despite Washington's apparent displeasure...
...CUBA, THE PURSUIT OF FREEDOM by Hugh Thomas. 1,696 pages. Harper...