Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kept a tight grip on the trade union movement in Mexico, held most of the important posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor...
...intelligence from Cuba stung one U.S. agency into prompt action. The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics notified the Cuban Government that while Luciano was on the loose no more narcotics for medical use would be sent to Cuba; Lucky might get them and peddle them. Cuba's new Interior Minister Alfredo Pequeno got the point. He called in burly Benito Herrera, chief of the secret police, and told him to go get Lucky. At week's end Lucky Luciano, no war hero at all, was locked up and had an ultimatum: go back to Italy...
...there was no reason to believe that Cuba entirely appreciated the broad view. Last week ex-Prime Minister Felix Lancis accused Belt of "acting as Washington Ambassador in Cuba, not Cuban Ambassador in Washington...
Cuba. Last May the Cuban air force moved into the huge new San Antonio air base (20 miles south of Havana) when the U.S. Army moved out. They have maintained the expensive, strategic property (cost to U.S. taxpayers: an estimated $20 million) in fairly good shape...
...claims that he is not a Communist, but he seldom deviates from the Party line. In Cuba, 75 miles from the U.S., a Communist was First Vice President, Communists provided the votes by which President Ramon Grau San Martin controls Congress, Communists also held all key posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor. There were few Latin American countries in which Communists could not point to gains...