Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wacky obsession of Fidel Castro's Cuba last week was that war with the U.S. was close at hand. "Machetes ready, rifles oiled." cautioned the mouthpiece newspaper Revolution. "Yankee warships off the Cuban coast!'' In the drumfire of propaganda, even some of Castro's 6,000 political prisoners began believing the lies. "Every time we heard a plane go overhead," reported a prisoner just released, "we thought the Americans were coming to rescue...
Sunderland took over some massive headaches apart from sinking profits. Among them: Fidel Castro's confiscation of 272,472 acres of United Fruit sugar and cattle lands in Cuba; a 1958 anti-trust consent decree requiring United Fruit, by 1970, to divest itself of roughly one-third of its banana import business...
...matter how serious his economic troubles or how worrisome his new opposition in the hills, Fidel Castro can always make himself feel good again with one simple device: staging a rally, with chants, parades and a thunderous ovation from the excited mob. Last week, as May Day approached, Castro faced the threats of guerrilla war by former followers and heavy unemployment in the fields below once the sugar harvest was ended. He concentrated on producing the biggest May Day demonstration in Cuban history...
Married. Emma Castro Ruz, 24, youngest sister of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro; and Victor Lomeli Delgado, a Mexican engineer; by the Archbishop Coadjutor, Msgr. Evelio Diaz y Cia, in Havana. Dressed in his customary fatigues, and bobbling a pistol on his right hip, Fidel showed up 20 minutes late for the wedding, was applauded and cheered as he entered the cathedral...
...even in yanqui-conscious Latin America was the new outspokenness regarded as unwarranted interference in internal affairs. For months the U.S. had suffered in relative silence while Fidel Castro's Cuban government made a mockery of personal legal rights, suppressed newspapers, confiscated property and howled at the U.S. such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked...