Word: directorio
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Dissension, Confusion. If the victors were united in revenge, they were divided in how to share the glory. The Directorio Revolucionario, a student group backed by onetime President Carlos Prio, which had its own band of guerrillas in the central Cuban mountains, worried that adulation for Castro might turn him into a swellhead dictator. The Directorio insisted on stockpiling guns for itself. Castro grew furious, ordered the students to turn over the arms. Outgunned, they complied...
...Directorio Estudiantil The real rulers of Cuba last week were not the sergeant-led army, nor the Cabinet of President Grau San Martin, but a group of 30 tousle-haired, secretly worried young people known as the Directorio Estudiantil All had been oppressed, not a few had been imprisoned and tortured, by Machado the Butcher. The youngest is 19, the oldest 30, and all were students of the University of Havana which was shut by Dictator Machado...
Even conservative Cubans could not grow angry with Los Ninos ("The Boys") but the great problem was what The Boys were going to do next. There was no leader; every member of the Directorio Estiidiantil had an equal voice. The nearest approach to leaders seemed to be a wild-eyed pair known as Santiago Alvarez and Ysmael Seijas who handed out Springfields and automatic rifles to other shirt-sleeved students, formed a most irregular militia...
...Ninos is the son of Dr. Eduardo Chibas, a member of the de Cespedes Cabinet which they helped overthrow. In Dr. Chibas' house last week young Chibas and his 29 young friends of the Directorio sat down on 30 chairs drawn in a big circle. As to a seminar in Elementary Social Problems, Ambassador Welles and his financial adviser, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. walked in, sat down in the centre of the circle. It was the first time The Boys had ever agreed to listen to Mr. Welles...
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