Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 400,000 Spaniards resident in Cuba. Quick and hard the Spanish Government acted. In Madrid Foreign Minister Luis de Zulueta made a statement on the killing (which was barred from all Cuban newspapers) and wired urgent orders to Spain's embassy in Havana. Spanish Charge d'Affaires Rafael Forns called immediately on Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara, sniffed indignantly at the latter's suggestion that all official moves be postponed until after a Cuban "judicial investigation." Next day he delivered his Government's formal note, a message conspicuous for its lack of diplomatic...
Spain refused even to discuss the Cuban suggestion that the young student was not a Spanish citizen. Spain recalled previous Spanish protests on the subject of Cuba's Ley de Fuga-and demanded punishment of the guilty Porra agents. Spain joined the mother of Student Gonzalez in demanding a public autopsy to prove whether or not he had been tortured before death...
...Royal Spain's use of this same convenient "law" was one of the most telling arguments of Cuban revolutionists...
...independent planters from whom United Fruit buys bananas. He has revalued United Fruit properties at $50,000,000 less than the Bostonian reckoning, thereby enabling the company to save millions of dollars in depreciation charges and to show correspondingly higher earnings. Since tariffs have practically eliminated profits from Cuban sugar and Depression has shrunk the profits of the 98 steamships of the Great White Fleet, nearly all the company's revenue has come from bananas, more than half of which the company raises itself on its plantations in Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Colombia. Last year...
...Rubiera, reporters had to go back to last September when a carload of hired assassins shot Dr. Clemente Vasquez Bello in front of his home (TIME, Oct. 10). People get shot in Cuba nearly every day but Dr. Bello was something special. Not only was he Speaker of the Cuban Senate, but a very intimate friend of Dictator-President Gerardo Machado. Within an hour of Dr. Bello's murder members of the Porra or Machado strong-arm squad attempted to assassinate Dr. Ricardo Dolz, anti-Machado leader and Rector of Havana University. They did assassinate the three Andrade brothers...