Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1950, Canada's has jumped 90%-an advance in which U.S. investment dollars played a dominant role. Cuba, for its part, seems intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME'S cover (which asked: "Democracy or Dictatorship?"), a supergov-ernment called INRA has grown up-as such prerevolutionary institutions as Congress and the courts wither away -and has set up 485 commune-like farm cooperatives. For how Canada grew rich while Cuba took the path to economic chaos, see THE HEMISPHERE...
Behind yellow and green holiday lights festooned across a 23-story concrete building in downtown Havana, the select inner ring of Fidel Castro's chaotic dictatorship this week celebrates its first anniversary in power. The building is not the national palace or the long-deserted Congress, but the tightly guarded headquarters of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). Yugoslav Theoretician Milovan Djilas once observed that the first duty of any Communist revolutionary is to destroy the political force that brought him to power and replace it with an enormous, patronage-rich bureaucracy. Castro has quietly smashed...