Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guardian corresponds closely to the outlaw Indian Geronimo in Hannah's Geronimo Rex. But this is McGuane's own, and nobody, not even Hannah, deals better with the South of Holiday Inn Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then, overcome with remorse, tips over in the palm shadows for a troubled snooze." The violence is lovingly plotted, coldly calculated, but respected. Councilman Peavey sends Nylon Pindar the thug to straighten Chet...
Applause, applause! Finally we have been presented with an understandable insight into those "foreign" people, the Hispanics [Oct. 16]. Born and educated as a middle-class Wasp, I have contributed to that "minority within a minority" by marrying a Cuban. I found myself welcomed openly and warmly into my husband's family. I have delightedly discovered that their life in this country is just like mine-work, school, keeping a home-but with an added zest, and an outpouring of love and vitality for everything around them...
...trade negotiator well versed in capitalist business practices and as a skilled organizer who directed the evacuation of Soviet industry during World War II. After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev, eventually serving as one of the party chiefs Deputy Premiers. During the Cuban missile crisis it was Mikoyan whom Khrushchev sent to Fidel Castro to explain his "compromise" with President Kennedy. A survivor by instinct, Mikoyan initiated the now famous attack against Stalin at the party's 20th Congress in 1956 and, eight years later, helped depose Khrushchev. Eased out of office...
...popular power, the Somozas have had a strong regional anti-communist consciousness. In 1954, for example, the elder Somoza lent his private estate for CIA training of right-wing Guatemalan exiles led by Castillo Armas, and allowed U.S. bombers supporting the exiles to take off from Nicaragua. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Somozas began to develop tighter relations with right-wing Cuban exiles who, with the CIA, were plotting to overthrow the Castro government. In 1961, the Somozas' private lands were used to train the exiles; furthermore, the planes participating in the Bay of Pigs invasion took...
Anti-Somoza forces increasingly turned to armed struggle in the 1950s. But the invasions of 1948, 1954, 1958, 1959 and 1960 all resulted in military defeat. The Cuban Revolution inspired many popular guerrilla movements throughout Latin America. The 1962 founding of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) represented a new and greater threat to the Somoza regime. The Sandinistas, many of whom were young intellectuals, soon began to work among the peasants of the north, where they began to gradually build a mass base...