Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about a proper attitude for the U.S. toward Latin America. "Peoples that are poor and without hope," he told a well-filled House chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold democratic institutions. On the contrary, it is fertile soil for anarchy and dictatorship." At the National Press Club he made his point again: "The United States cannot stand aloof from the fact that almost 200 million individuals live in poverty on our continent...
...executioner's rifle cracked across Cuba last week, and around the world voices hopefully cheering for a new democracy fell still. The men who had just won a popular revolution for old ideals-for democracy, justice and honest government-themselves picked up the arrogant tools of dictatorship. As its public urged them on, the Cuban rebel army shot more than 200 men, summarily convicted in drumhead courts, as torturers and mass murderers for the fallen Batista dictatorship. The constitution, a humanitarian document forbidding capital punishment, was overridden...
...full of soaring, vaguely leftist hopes for Cuba's future but has no clear program. Other Latin American leaders trust his democratic professions, hope that his shortcomings will not bring on disorder and another dictatorship...
...means for buying and smuggling arms. Castro's brother Raul, commanding a column of recruits as big as Fidel's, kept an airstrip open on mountain pastures. By spring of 1958 arms flights became big and frequent-notably from rich Venezuela, which had just thrown off a dictatorship. Cubans in Florida regularly flew planeloads of arms from small airports in Broward County and at Ocala and Lakeland, once made a fire-bomb...
...threat presumably was prompted by statements of some U.S. congressmen that the State Department should act to halt the executions which have followed the fall of President Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship...