Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kidnaping technique has proved to be a startlingly effective way of springing political prisoners. Equally important, it has brought worldwide attention to Latin America's urban guerrilla bands and the generally conservative regimes that they oppose. As long ago as 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban guerrillas seized Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine auto-racing champion, then freed him after a tide of publicity. In the early 1960s, kidnaping was widely used by rebels in Guatemala and elsewhere to raise funds, but the victims were rarely foreigners...
...give Mr. Pompidou an official welcome. Such behavior is a breach of diplomatic etiquette of the worst kind. And all this because of 109 Mirage jets? I do not recall a similar cold-shouldering of Russian leaders by American officials at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, or after the invasion of Hungary or Czechoslovakia. I wonder whether Mr. Nasser isn't nearer to the truth than we have wanted to believe. The U.S. is definitely biased in favor of Israel...
...visit. They grew up with the Revolution. In 1959, when Fidel's Rebel Army entered Havana after the collapse of the U. S.-backed Batista dictatorship, Pedro was 11 and Hugo was 22. None of the eight was communist, and none was engaged in productive work for the Cuban people. Today all are dedicated communists, and all are working to lift Cuba out of underdevelopment. The course of their lives, the change they went through, is the course of the Revolution...
...grasped this lesson as quickly as the Cuban people. The forces of U.S. imperialism which had supported Baustia, which had controlled the Cuban economy for a hundred years, prepared the counter-attack: economic blockade, political pressure, massive propaganda, and finally in the beginning of April 1961. Cuban cities were bombed by U.S. planes supplied to the counter revolutionaries...
...more it is a test of 11 years of political development. On one of our first days in the fields I asked Juan whether Cuba would pass that test, whether they would make the ten million, and he said yes, without a doubt. Once I got to know the Cuban people. I never had to ask that again. Los Diez Milliones...