Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of Cuba today. The familiar grey wood shacks with thatched roofs still stand between the moist green of mountains and banana trees and the dazzle of sparkling sea. Inside on the wall, along with stiffly formal photographs of parents and children, there usually hangs a portrait of Fidel Castro. Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine...
...power, have long since become disenchanted. The Roman Catholic Church is stirring in opposition. The press has been silenced, but in the streets much vocal dissent is heard. Eco nomic problems have been postponed, not solved. And some kind of dissension is astir in the ranks of the leadership. Fidel...
Wearing a smile of melancholy sweetness that many women find devastating, Che guides Cuba with icy calculation, vast competence, high intelligence and a perceptive sense of humor. Despite the fact that Fidel Castro has had him declared a "native-born Cuban," Che knows that Cubans still regard him as a foreigner, and has so far realistically set the limit of his personal ambition accordingly. Even his name (pronounced Chay) comes from the Argentine equivalent...
...goes a Cuban story, Fidel was winding up a Cabinet meeting when a thought suddenly struck him. "By the way," he said, "I had to fire the head of the National Bank today. Anybody here an economist?" Che's hand shot up. "I am, chief," he said. "All right, Che," said Fidel, "you're president of the bank." The meeting over, Castro stayed behind for a private chat with Che. "Say, I never knew you were an economist," said Fidel. "Economist!" said Che, astounded. "I thought you said Communist!" The most interesting thing about the story is that...
Sick in bed last week with pneumonia, Fidel Castro was made just a shade more miserable by outcries of opposition in the streets. After a special Mass at Havana cathedral for "those persecuted under Communist regimes." members of the congregation surged into the street shouting, "Cuba, yes! Russia, no!", a variation on the Castro cry of "Cuba, yes! Yanqui, no!'' For 30 minutes the churchgoers battled pro-Castro hecklers. Next day another street fight erupted after a Mass in suburban Miramar to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Castro wearily hauled himself...