Word: cuba
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During the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, a youthful intelligence officer frequently appeared before U.S. officials and reporters and traced the Soviet missile bases on huge blowups of aerial photographs taken over Cuba. So it was perhaps fitting that the same man-John T. Hughes, now 54 and a deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency-picked up his pointer again to conduct last week's briefing on Nicaragua's military buildup. Hughes' performance was professionally impressive, yet questions remained about the reliability of the evidence he was called upon to interpret...
...genuinely. Costa Rica's Monge believes that there are young officers in the Guatemalan army who realize that their country has to be more democratic to survive. Monge's advice to the U.S.: identify with those elements and help them prevail. > In Nicaragua the Sandinistas are unquestionably oriented toward Cuba and the Soviet bloc in foreign policy and are heading toward one-party, totalitarian rule at home. But the U.S. can still work to modify that government's behavior. The Administration should immediately soften its tone, thereby giving the Sandinistas fewer pretexts to justify their militancy and repression. In addition...
...guerrillas attribute their recent successes less to the quality of their guns than to the fact that they are getting effective guidance from both Nicaraguans and Cubans. Field commanders from El Salvador make frequent trips to Managua for consultations, and some travel to Cuba every two or three months to review tactics and targets...
Opposing the government are an estimated 3,000 guerrillas from four main Marxist factions, which receive some weapons and training from Cuba. Their strategy: isolate the capital and seize parts of outlying departments. The guerrillas are concentrating their propaganda and recruiting activities in areas inhabited by the country's poverty- stricken Mayan Indians, who make up roughly half of the total population...
...arrested again, was deported to Nicaragua and ended up in Mexico. There he made an important friend, Bias Roca Calderio, then secretary-general of the Cuban Socialist Party, now a high-ranking member of the central committee of the Cuban Communist Party. In 1950 Bias Roca invited Carpio to Cuba to see how the Communist Party operated...