Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OAKDALE, La.--Cuban prisoners in a federal detention center here yesterday rioted and took more than 20 hostages after they found out they might be sent back to Cuba. They demanded that they not be deported, authorities said...
...stout pine coffin containing the body of Miguel Sotomayor Urbina was brought out of the family's wooden shack and carried through the dusty streets of Managua's Villa Cuba neighborhood. There was no honor guard and no red-and- black flag draped over the coffin, as there usually is for young conscripts killed in action against the U.S.-backed contras. And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully. "He hadn't wanted to go, and dodged the draft...
...power with the support of 80% to 90% of the population," says a Nicaraguan intellectual who was once a fervent believer. "Now they would have to scrape to come up with 40%." The draft and 1500% inflation are eroding the bedrock of support in poor neighborhoods like Villa Cuba. "They have taken all our rights, even the right to toilet paper," says a 20-year-old draft dodger, referring to frequent shortages of basic commodities. "People are tired of their empty slogans and want change...
...MOVE household, the surge of executions on Jim Crow death row, the gutting of busing for desegregation--these are emblems of a visciously racist ruling class gearing up for war. As American capitalism continues to rot, both Republicans and Democrats know they cannot conduct any war--against Nicaragua, Cuba and ultimately the Soviet Union--without the subjugation of the working classes and all the oppressed...
Eight years after her escape from a New Jersey prison, where she was serving a life term in the killing of a state trooper, Black Revolutionary JoAnne Chesimard surfaced in Cuba last week to plug her upcoming book, Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.; $18.95). Chesimard, 40, was once dubbed by police the "mother hen" of the Black Liberation Army, a radical sect that staged bank robberies in the New York area. In Havana, she told the Long Island newspaper Newsday that the Castro government supports her and her 13- year-old daughter Kakuya while Chesimard studies for a master...