Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traced their escape route through Mexico City to Fidel Castro's Havana, which is apparently the new jumping-off point for Moscow. The rest of the trip was possibly by Soviet trawler. Martin and Mitchell themselves were smugly silent about their escape route because, they said, other defectors may want to follow them...
...only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...
These are the conditions that give Fidel Castro and his vision of a Utopia a popular audience all over Latin America: 1% With 20 million more people than the U.S., the Latin American nations have combined gross national products of only about one-eighth the U.S.'s. Latin American population keeps rising at a fast 2.6% annually, which pushes the per capita share of G.N.P. down-from a fat 4.1% increase in 1957 to a slim...
...Fidel Castro could have pretended to ignore the anti-Cuban resolution written in Costa Rica by OAS diplomats, because it did not specify Cuba by name. Instead he chose to strike his favorite defiant, heroic pose and staged a whirlwind week of speeches, each more frenzied and more sinister than the last. The climax was a massive demagogic stunt: an invitation to all Cubans (who have no representative government) to take part in a "People's Assembly" in Havana's Civic Plaza, where, in the style of the French revolutionary terror, they could roar approval of proposed...
...noonday all Havana closed down. Supporters were trucked in from the countryside to join Habaneras who were given a half-holiday for a "Date with the Fatherland." After the standard delay, during which the crowd of 300,000 sharpened its appetite by shouting "Fidel, give it to the Yankees," Castro arrived. He shouted to the mob, which he called "this free and sovereign assembly," that "no nation of Latin America tas dared to have diplomatic relations with the Popular Republic of [Communist] China. The Revolutionary Government wishes to ask the people if it wants to establish relations." The chant rose...