Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist plot" to subvert democracy. (It is intriguing how 80 per cent of the population, according to official sources in the Catholic Church, supports a plot to subvert democracy in their own country). Of all the nations allegedly implicated in this plot, the most prominent are, in alphabetical order. Cuba, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, "radical Arab governments," and the Soviet Union...
...year, one of the worst averages in the western hemisphere. Ninety-five per cent of the people cannot read, and the government has made no attempt to reverse the condition of mass illiteracy. Malnutrition runs as high as 60 per cent. The infant mortality rate is double that of Cuba, and four times that of the United States. A New York Times reporter, Raymond Bonner, who toured the countryside reported...
...move full of unsubtly irony, the UN has denounced El Salvador's current regime. Never in 25 years has the UN found the time to condemn the USSR's invasion of Hungary, or Cuba's imprisonment and torture of thousands of men and women who fought against Batista but who wanted democracy and not communism...
Addressing the possibility of U.S. intervention in El Salvador's civil war, Ulises Torres, an exiled minister from Chile, said, "Even the most humble peasant knows the problem is not Cuba or the U.S.S.R. El Salvador's system of injustice is the main problem." Torres added that to avoid "a very scary situation," the U.S. should not initiate a conflict with Cuba over El Salvador...
...most dramatic briefings of the week, Eagleburger offered his European listeners a chronological summary of Soviet-bloc efforts to arm the rebels. He described how, over the past two months, Soviet-built transport planes have been flying from Cuba to Managua, Nicaragua, and unloading a variety of American-and European-made arms, which are eventually smuggled into El Salvador. He backed up his assertions with a slide show that included blowups of documents allegedly written by a Communist guerrilla leader and detailing commitments made by Viet Nam, Ethiopia, the Soviet Union and East European nations to provide military hardware. Perhaps...