Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four pilots, 2 demolition experts, 2 radiomen, 2 medics, 3 arms experts or suppliers, a dozen marines, 1 Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 3 Cuban (Castro) rebels, 1 Yugoslav guerilla, 4 Chinese, 1 Costa Rican, 2 Negroes, numerous Korean veterans...
False Position. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who had been telling U.S. audiences that he flatly opposed Caribbean filibusters, knew all about the Panamanian plot, but was caught aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...
...American States met, listened to a Panamanian plea for help against "international pirates," sent an investigating team. While patrol boats and planes contributed by the U.S., Ecuador and Colombia scouted the Caribbean and the Panamanian coast for signs of a rumored reinforcement fleet, Invader Chief Cesar Vega met the Cuban officers and the OAS negotiators, and surrendered. Cuba was expected to ask Panama to give the invaders leniency, a quality unknown to the Castro firing squads at home...
Only real winner: Dominican Republican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has a firm precedent for appealing to the OAS if and when Cuban rebels try to help overthrow...
...Fellow travelers work on the "Commission for the Revision of Cuban History Books." Suggested change: U.S. troops came to Cuba in 1898 for "imperialistic reasons" after the Spanish were licked...