Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...States in Washington last week, the OAS member countries 1) served rude notice on Trujillo that they are not going to come to his aid, no matter what the treaties say, and 2) moved toward a conference of foreign ministers to stop the plots and invasions emanating mostly from Fidel Castro's Cuba...
Down Cuba's 937-mile Central Highway six months ago, Fidel Castro rolled in triumph; presumably to restore the country's democracy and peace. Retracing the rebels' victorious tank treads last week, TIME Correspondent Bruce Henderson found a country tense and bitterly divided. His report...
...front of eastern Santiago's city hall is a 40-ft. billboard showing the major landholdings of Oriente province. Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more...
...effect has been to increase the very problem-unemployment-that Castro promises to attack through land reform. As Puerto Rico, Brazil and other Latin American states have discovered, the fastest, surest way to provide mass high-income employment is industrialization; all of Fidel Castro's measures so far have scared off the capital that builds factories. Last week, deeply concerned that for the masses his revolution is coming to equal joblessness. Castro announced that during the next six months he will spend $135 million on public works to build roads, parks, bridges, schools and hospitals...
...economic effect of Fidel Castro's promises has been to worsen the plight of the Cuban people...