Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 14 months of waiting for Provisional President Carlos Mendieta to turn into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer...
...collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked out, leaving inmates to themselves. Crowed bantam Generalissimo Batista: "This strike is a disgrace to the civilization of Cuba." He sent out his soldiers to scour Havana, sent Army planes swooping over the roof tops...
That small Caribbean nation, Cuba, in which the United States has always manifested an interest, if not so fraternal an interest as the name "big-brother" implies, is again providing variety in our daily news diet of Roosevelt and the "New Deal." Another of the periodic general strikes has occurred in Cuba, with the usual consequences of disorder and military rule...
...would be fairer to judge Cuba's propensity for strikes and revolutions on an economic rather than racial basis. Attempts to find the cause in Latin temperament are interesting speculation but do not present the whole picture. Cuba's constant dissatisfaction with government is firmly grounded in its extensive sugar fields, and their relation to the United States. It is a familiar, unsavory story of a small group, in this case beet sugar growers in the South, obtaining a high protective tariff on Cuban sugar, despite the fact that it is economically unsound. The result of setting up such lofty...
Many in the United States are watching developments with uneasy interest and wondering if our government "will find it necessary to send a few cruisers to Cuba, as it did last year, to preserve law and order," and protect investments totaling over a billion dollars. In Cuba it is not necessary to be a Communist to be a flery opponent of domination and discrimination by the United States, rather it is a test of Cuban patriotism. Cuban revolutions, strikes, and disorder, which we are inclined to view merely with academic interest, except when our pocketbooks are affected, might well become...