Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uses to put bombs in the streets as if they were melons would be some day the rulers! They wish to get the power-killing the same people they wish to rule. No, dear director, you must come here. You will see that all the atrocities that happened in Cuba were not only made by the government as they say. I assure you men of the opposition are far from being victims or martyrs. They are not saints either. A WOMAN LOVER OF JUSTICE ! ELOINA GOMEZ DE VAZQUEZ...
...Havana, Cuba...
...Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted. In Manhattan the Junta, sending out for more ice water, went on bickering because "the time is not ripe...
...landing. He started with 100 men, a crew of officers he had picked himself. Machado sent him 300 more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province in 1930, he was accused of 44 political assassinations which he called "suicides." He enjoys performing executions personally and "Ortiz' Mark...
...rebels in the hills for deliverance but to Havana where U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles was calmly talking business. They wanted him to promise a lower U. S. tariff on sugar, and a U. S. guarantee to buy 2,000,000 tons a year. In exchange Cuba would lower tariffs on U. S. imports. Keeping in touch with the U. S. State Department by telephone, Mr. Welles steered wide on the subject of U. S. intervention. His calmness disarmed Cuba's Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara who suddenly bubbled over that the U. S. had promised to do "everything...