Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuban Rebels Pillage...
...casino at the Havana Riviera brings the Cuban capital's tony gambling spots to ten, all authorized by free-and-easy laws aimed at making Havana a strong Eastern competitor for the West's Las Vegas. Batista's government lent $6,000,000 toward the $14 million that the hotel cost. Exactly who supplied how much of the rest of the money is a deep secret; the directors include Toronto Hotelman Harry Smith. Edward Levinson of Las Vegas' Fremont, and a Cuban Senator whose brother happens to be a Cabinet minister...
...Putting torches to Cuban cane fields and tossing bombs in Havana, a romantic rebel band, backed by many of the country's most conservative professional men, fights Dictator Fulgencio Batista. After a year, the battle is still no better than a stalemate. For reasons, see HEMISPHERE'S The First Year of Rebellion...
...well as sad. Though the army and most of organized labor are still his, he cannot put down the revolt, has managed only to spur it with clumsy counterterrorism. Risking shoot-on-sight orders, Castro partisans are putting the torch to the budding sugar-cane crop on which the Cuban economy depends. The army said it shot four rebels in the cane fields last week. "Criminals!" shouts Batista now. "Communists...
Paying Back. When the rebels tried to extend the strike to Havana, they bumped squarely into two pillars of the Batista regime-solid prosperity and a tough, bull-necked labor leader named Eusebio Mujal, 44. As secretary-general of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (C.T.C.), Mujal bosses 1,200,000 workers, half the total labor force, and he bosses them for Batista. Guarded by a cordon of bully boys in open-necked shirts, Mujal explained his stand bluntly last week: "People who treat labor well deserve well of labor...