Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreman, asked for directions to the guerrilla camp, shrugs and points across the road. Sunday is the day that Gonzalez sets aside for press visits, and lately reporters and camera crews have come in droves past the No Paso (No Trespassing) sign posted outside the 18-month-old Camp Cuba-Nicaragua. The show varies little from week to week: target practice, men running an obstacle course, simulated assaults through mud and underbrush. No automatic weapons or explosives are used; they are illegal. Finally, Bombillo Gonzalez climbs atop a tiny wooden podium and explains what these maneuvers portend for the hated...
After the American and European television crews leave, life at Camp Cuba-Nicaragua returns to its normal desolation and languor. The 68-acre site, a leased former sunflower farm, resembles a vacated M*A*S*H stage set or a jerry-built guerrilla dude ranch. Gonzalez says his intention is both to train Latin American counterrevolutionaries for six weeks, at a cost of $600 to $700 each, and to rekindle the belligerent anti-Castro spirit of Florida's Cuban community. By Gonzalez's own admission, that second goal has been something of a dud, since would-be Cuban...
...side. What were the independent governments set up in the Third World revolution but an attempt at bringing dignity, freedom and food to people always denied the first two, and often the third as well? But how many have been successful in breaking the bonds of subjection--certainly not Cuba, slave to Moscow; certainly not Chile, a wholly-owned ITT subsidiary; not Jamaica, or Ethiopia, or Gustemain. And the New Left and the civil rights movement and the Freedom Summer and Moratorium Day and SDS and smoking dope--what did they mean except this world stinks...
...sanctimonious about the events in Poland. The U.S. press and the Administration would have us believe that there is something new about a superpower cracking down on one of its pawns. What about Chile in 1973, the Dominican Republic in 1965 and-though the effort was unsuccessful-Cuba...
...guerrilla forces that challenge the government are divided into four main Marxist factions, and supplied with at least some weapons and training by Cuba. The guerrillas are under a unified command, but also operate independently. The Marxist organizations have been growing and organizing clandestinely on a scale that finally came as a shock to authorities. Guatemalan army analysts now estimate the guerrilla strength at 3,000 active fighters, plus as many as 30,000 untrained reserves and supporters. The strategy of the guerrillas is to isolate Guatemala City and to seize portions of outlying Guatemalan departments. The eventual...