Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerating Fidel Castro, the big powers repeat their 1932 mistake of tolerating Hitler. Castro, Somoza and Trujillo all justify their crimes with the claim of defending the people. Castro openly murders (official word: executes) hundreds of those who dare to have different opinions, but strangely, everybody sees only the villainies of the other two. Is it because when they kill, they do not make a public show...
...Fidel Castro merely wants what is best for his own country: prosperity and as much freedom as is compatible with the required social and economic reform. American meddling and support of men like Batista have prevented the Cubans from realizing these goals ever since the Spanish-American...
...country boys came to the big city last week, their feet squeaking in stiff new shoes, their machetes dangling in leather scabbards at their sides, their floppy straw hats tilted back in wonder at the apartment buildings and tourist hotels along Havana's seaside Malecon Drive. Their hero, Fidel Castro, had hauled them to town, 200,000 strong, in an egotistic political maneuver calculated to prove his mass support and scare his enemies. The poor dirt farmers, called guajiros, were delighted to yell their vivas in return for such a show...
...York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, veteran foreign correspondent and champion of causes, scored an enviable news beat in 1957, when he made his way into the mountain fastness of Cuba's Oriente province, became the first U.S. newsman to interview Rebel Leader Fidel Castro. Matthews reported not only that Castro was alive (the Batista government had been claiming him dead), but that he represented Cuba's future. Wrote Matthews: "He has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore the constitution, to hold elections...
...newspaperman." That may be one of Herb Matthews' problems in covering Cuba, where he is viewed more as a revolutionary institution than a working newsman. Explained another Cuba correspondent last week: "Whether he likes it or not, Matthews is regarded as being a sort of father confessor of Fidel Castro's revolution." Returning to Cuba this month, he was wined and dined by top Cuban government officials, spent some ten hours in close conversation with his friend Fidel. Talking to fellow newsmen, he steadfastly defended Castro. Did he feel any disenchantment at all? "No, I see no reason...