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Twenty-four hours after this editorial question appeared in Havana's Diario de la Marina, armed thugs from the Castro-controlled Cuban newspaper unions last week seized the paper, stilled the only remaining newspaper voice in Cuba that had continually dared to criticize the Castro regime...
...months Diario and Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero, 39, had been living on borrowed time as they blasted Castro's arbitrary rent reductions, his agrarian farm laws ("Hundreds of people have had their property taken away without compensation"), his flirtation with Communism. Boldly the newspaper spoke out for "democratic normalcy and the law. Is this a crime? Is it immoral? Are there not a lot of Cuban people who want the same?" Castro tolerated such impudence only because Diario was considered the unofficial spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba and because it furnished proof to "Yankee imperialists" that...
...Thank you, Señor Mikoyan," said the Havana newspaper, Diario de la Marina. "Your visit has clarified many things and defined the camps: on one side the Communists and their knowing and unknowing accomplices; on the other side Cubans who want to continue being free men in a free world." Leaving Cuba after ten days, Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan had scored high, winning a trade treaty and a promise of resumed diplomatic relations. But there were many signs that the common Cuban found the new warmth between Havana and Moscow distasteful and even dangerous...
...articles critical of Castro the "clarification" that the workers consider the story untrue. Zayas said that the head of the newsmen's union. Baldomero Alvarez Rios, is a Communist. The Stolen Government Property Ministry thereupon seized Zayas' house and newspaper. Havana's other leading opposition newspaper Diario de la Marina, struggled on against "clarification"-sometimes running a story, followed by a compulsory "clarification," followed by an angry editorial protest to the "clarification," followed by a second "clarification...
Cuba had been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...