Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CRIMSON of February 8, there is a letter from Lee Lockwood regarding a "Center for Cuban Studies," whose purpose is to make available to all interested persons "a comprehensive collection of documents and study materials about Revolutionary Cuba...
...trust Mr. Lockwood will include in his Center the document. "From the Prisons of Cuba-A Cry for Help!" which appeared in the May-June number of the socialist magazine Dissent. The document is signed, with all names given, by 47 political prisoners held in the political prison La Cabana in Cuba. The document was dated December 1969 and submitted to the United Nations through the League for the Rights of Man, a civil liberties organization headed by Roger Baldwin, the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Prolonged Sacrifices. Both authors contend that one of Castro's earliest mistakes was setting up incorrect goals and improper procedures. "An encircled country like Cuba could not permit herself the luxury of gradual progress," admits Karol. "Sacrifices that have been [too] prolonged have become unbearable for the people today," says Dumont...
...suggests that Castro will soon be overthrown. Most of those who might have opposed him have left Cuba or hope to do so aboard one of the ten-a-week Varadero-to-Miami flights. Though no new exit permits have been issued since 1966, some 130,000 people who were granted permits before that time are still waiting to join the 600,000 Cubans who have departed for what Castro scornfully calls "the dolce vita and the consumer society." What the critics do suggest is that socialist Cuba is in dire trouble. They argue that Castro's charisma...
...thorn in the U.S. side-so much so that in 1954 a CIA-supported force routed Arbenz's forces. The tactic was so successful that some observers believe it led the U.S. to try an encore in the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba...