Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American industry found it profitable to deal with Communist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia and the Eastern satellites of the U.S.S.R.? Why does our Government invariably oppose a people's revolution and thus push those people into the Communist camp, as in the case of Cuba and now Nicaragua...
...should not center on who the guerrillas are, or what their ideology appears to be now, or even how short the current regime falls of our democratic standards. Rather, we must worry about what will surely follow. The Communists will usurp the insurgents' victory, as they did in Cuba. We will have another enemy at our doorstep, and the Salvadoran people will continue to suffer...
Meanwhile, Washington was trying to undermine the guerrillas by exerting new pressure on Cuba and Nicaragua to stop supplying them with arms and advice...
...regime might be sufficiently moderate to permit a resumption of U.S. military aid, which was cut off in 1977 because of the country's appalling human rights record. Government forces need U.S. arms to fight an escalating insurgency by leftist guerrillas that Washington charges is backed by Cuba. Thus the coup makers' initial statements in favor of democracy seemed to offer a chance for positive change in Guatemala, and closer ties with Washington...
...Conservative Club members have recently sponsored a series of demonstrations opposing proposals for a freeze on the nuclear arms race and chastising current communist regimes in Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere...