Word: cuban
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans between 1898 and 1960 had had textbooks on imperialism, Cuba would have been a textbook case. Cuba's main industry was always sugar production, and whoever controls Cuba's sugar has a large measure of control over most Cubans' earnings, the Cuban government--traditionally a government of the educated and well-to-do--and most Cubans' lives. In the 20th century, more and more Cuban sugar mills were bought by Americans, protected by occasional U.S. military intervention, and Cuban owners of small and inefficient mills were forced out of business. Large mill owners--many American--came to have...
...just do not know. My political sensibilities lead me to reject the politics and the policies of the Kennedy administration. There is no forgiving Kennedy the Bay of Pigs, the expansion of our imperialist involvement in Indochina, his incredibly belligerent cold war rhetoric or his brinksman handling of the Cuban missile crisis. Nor can Kennedy be forgiven the domestic surveillance he allowed his brother to institute or the wiretaps he permitted to be placed. There is no escaping the fact that many of Johnson's and Nixon's most repressive policies have their antecedent roots in the administration of John...
...mess began during the military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. During the coup, a Cuban ship left Valparaiso so quickly that its crew had no time to put ashore four Chilean cranes that were being used to unload sugar. The Cuban captain's haste seemed justified; his vessel was bombed and strafed before escaping to sea. Another Cuban ship laden with sugar turned back to Havana before it made port in Chile. In each instance, Chile's new junta cried foul. It contended that Cuba had to deliver 18,000 metric tons of sugar because...
...filed papers in the U.S. District Court for the Canal Zone seeking attachment of the ships as they sailed through the canal. Judge Guthrie Crowe granted the order, but authorities just missed nabbing the two sugar-bearing ships. So the attachment was simply applied to the Imias, the next Cuban ship that happened along. Meanwhile, in the wake of the coup, a Soviet captain had also decided not to deliver his cargo of chemicals to Chile, and a similar legal action trapped his ship...
Seizures in the canal are not uncommon: the Cuban and Soviet ships were the 17th and 18th to be impounded this year under the legal theory that the presence of the property confers jurisdiction on the U.S. Zone court. In accordance with admiralty law, such actions can be ordered on behalf of claimants who show an apparent debt of the shipowner. The issue is then formally tried in court. Usually, however, the disputes are conventional commercial squabbles...