Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behavior of U.S. friends than that of antagonists. "With friendly countries, we prefer to use diplomacy, not public pronouncements," it says. Not surprisingly, the survey's main villains are the Soviet Union ("The status of human rights . . . continues to fall far short of accepted inter national standards"), Cuba ("Freedoms of speech and press do not exist") and Nicaragua ("The human rights situation deteriorated markedly in 1982"). But other regimes that have been accused of serious human rights violations by watchdog organizations like Amnesty International get off lightly: El Salvador ("signs of improvement throughout the year"), Argentina ("significant expansion...
...made good on his second promise, calling free elections three weeks after the coup, but after just two years of civilian rule Rawlngs again moved in with his army strongmen. A leftist revolutionary descended from a Scottish engineer father and a Ghanaian mother, Rawlings promised on regaining power that Cuba would be the model for Ghana's development...
...fomenting revolution in Central America focused on increasing Soviet military shipments to Cuba. These shipments jumped from 21,000 tons in 1980 to 40,000 tons in the first six months of 1981. The dramatic rise suggested that Moscow was arming not only Cuba's military forces but also Marxist insurgents in the region...
...Sometimes they were foreign spies: Hondurans, Guatemalans, sometimes intelligence agents from the United States. I recall two U.S. agents who were shot. One was Puerto Rican; the other was from New Orleans. The Puerto Rican had been captured trying to get information on arms traffic between the Soviet Union, Cuba and Nicaragua. It was not so difficult to catch U.S. spies. The U.S. intelligence services always underestimated the Nicaraguan counterintelligence capacity...
...American states (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi) defaulted on British loans. Though three subsequently paid up, Mississippi is still listed in London as a bad debtor; it owes $5 million for a bond issue, excluding interest. More recently, whole countries have repudiated their foreign loans, among them have been Cuba in 1961 and North Korea...