Word: cuban
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...institutions, led us political leaders to understand that in Chile we had no other way to change but through an electoral struggle. And we won through that way, although many questioned our tactics. The guerrilla struggle and the popular army came to prominence in this continent after the Cuban Revolution, but there are tactical divergences that are not always understood...
...President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly to the dark dens of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon...
...been seeking help from every direction. Besides continuing to confer with their original attorney, Daniel Schultz of Washington, D.C., they have also been in touch with two others: Thomas Clifford, the U.S. public defender in Connecticut, and Ellis Rubin, a flamboyant Miami lawyer known for his fervent espousal of Cuban-refugee causes as well as his many losing races for local public office...
...Barker and Sturgis do not have Cuban surnames because, although Barker's mother was Cuban, his father was American and Sturgis adopted his stepfather's name...
...unmistakable its determination to change the leftward course of Allende's foreign policy. One of its first acts was to break relations with Cuba, which Allende had recognized soon after his inauguration, in defiance of the Organization of American States ban. A few hours after Allende died, 150 Cubans were hustled to Santiago's Pudahuel airport and put aboard a plane for home. Among them was Allende's daughter Beatriz, who is married to the first secretary of the Cuban embassy...