Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made by Western observers of the original vulnerability of backward, predominantly peasant societies to a Marxist takeover, little attention has been paid to the effect of that characteristic on their subsequent development. The Marxist-Leninist regimes of the Soviet Union and China, as well as their variants in Cuba, Albania and North Korea, relied on the peasant mentality of the majority of their populations. Beyond making it possible for well-organized, small revolutionary groups to take power, this attribute also enabled them to consolidate power after the revolution and maintain control as the regime matured...
THIS mistrust is not ill-placed, as past U.S. intervention indicates. Nicaragua is attacked presumably for its socialist ideology of land expropriation; Cuba, for its willingness to fight foreign wars; Peru, for its refusal to strangle itself through debt payments. North American imperialist attitudes of the last two decades have shifted to the ideological and economic level...
...Mexico refused to turn over to the U.S. William Morales, a Puerto Rican nationalist convicted of illegally transporting explosives. Mexico called Morales a "political fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico" and let him flee to Cuba. The year before, West German officials refused to give up Mohammed Ali Hammadi, who was wanted for the execution of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem during a 1985 TWA hijacking. Bonn haled him instead into its own juvenile courts (Hammadi claims he was 16 at the time...
...spectacle of Gorbachev in Cuba was an instructive one, more symbolic than substantive. Yet his message there echoed far more loudly in such far- flung corners of the globe as Poland and Kampuchea, where stunning events gave real meaning to Moscow's "new thinking...
...From Cuba to Poland to Viet Nam, Moscow is scaling back its costly involvement in cold war commitments. -- Invading guerrillas, an angry South Africa and ineffectual U.N. peacekeepers threaten Namibia's future. -- After 14 years of civil war, is Lebanon at the point of no return? -- In dealing with Israel, the U.S. tries a step-by-step approach...