Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fidel Castro has put a bad taste in everybody's mouth with his senseless "trial by jury," followed by the customary executions. Is this his dream of Cuba's new-found democracy...
TIME has won the gratitude of the Cuban people for its impartial coverage of the Cu ban situation. Our people, led by the new Bolivar, Fidel Castro, have given a unique example to the whole world in their fight against one of the most cruel dictatorships...
...amazing that the two current heroes of certain segments of the American public are Fidel Castro and Anastas Mikoyan. Castro made war on the Cuban people for years -burning their homes and crops and sabotaging their roads, bridges and communications. This hero justifies his wholesale executions by saying that Batista did the same thing. As to the other hero, Mikoyan, who ordered the mass murder of many Hungarians, he was wined and dined, and his opinions eagerly sought. Apparently, it all depends on who commits the atrocities...
Decimation. Six days later Castro landed on the southern shore of Oriente province, to be met by Batista's 1st Regiment. Only a dozen rebels escaped the slaughter. Among them were Cuba's future leaders: Fidel and Raul Castro, an Argentine surgeon named Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a onetime New York dishwasher named Camilo Cienfuegos, a Havana rebel named Faustino Perez...
Abroad, rebel sympathizers perfected 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...