Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shark-shaped Cuba sizzled last week from tip to tip. Bushwhacking insurrestos raided scores of towns. Near Banes on the northeast coast insurgent workers seized a sugar mill largely owned by Vincent Astor and Percy A. Rockefeller, shut up mill executives, wives and children in their quarters, cut off electricity and water. Fifteen sugar mills in Oriente province, mostly U. S.-owned, had been seized by rampaging Cuban proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed...
...promising one. . . . There are no laws, no courts. Nobody pays taxes because he can't be sure they won't be collected a second time by a new government. There is order without law because the Cubans are a friendly people. . . . The situation in Cuba is a kind of passive anarchy." Far from passive last week was General Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey...
...program of the present government in Cuba is aimed to make the country economically and consequently politically independent," declared Clarence H. Haring, professor of Latin-American History and Economics, in an interview yesterday. "While comprehending constitutional reforms, it is primarily concerened with the nationalistic design of minimizing the power of foreign capitalists, and of increasing the number of small estates a move of fundamental importance. The announced intention is to do this by fair indemnity rather than by confiscation, but there have been rumours that the students behind the government have recently been encouraging the communistic elements in the laboring...
...opposition parties, there are the old politicians, who have run Cuba in corruption ever since it first gained independence; the liberal party, also with political pretentious: the A. B. C., consisting chiefly of young professional and business men who want a new deal for their country, and believe that any compromise with the politicians would be fatal, but who are themselves divided into extremists and moderates. The students are at the extreme left with a plan for procedure not essentially different from that of the A. B. C., though slightly more radieal. The result is that San Martin heads...
...crisis in Cuba is not past. The present regime, moreover, can never achieve stability unless a compromise is reached with at least the moderate elements in the opposition groups, with whom negotiations, unsuccessful as yet, have been carried on. The latest word is that these negotiations have completely broken down...