Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the ill-starred attempt to swap 500 U.S. tractors for 1,214 Cuban prisoners held by Fidel Castro, many a U.S. citizen wondered just how such a deal could possibly benefit the U.S. But last week it seemed that the unsuccessful effort might show a curious profit after all. As a result of fund appeals by the Tractors for Freedom Committee, the Detroit post office was showered with 60,000 pieces of mail. When negotiations bogged down (TIME, June 30), the committee ordered the letters returned. So far, 56,000 that bore return addresses have been sent back unopened...
President Jânio Quadros has warned his Cabinet that unless Brazil embarks on revolutionary reforms, some day, on some unknown hilltop, some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up to plague his nation...
When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
Bobbing Bodies. The opposition has become emboldened. Eighteen months ago, guerrillas aided by Cuba's Fidel Castro invaded Paraguay from Argentina, but Stroessner's army beat them off, and machete-chopped corpses of rebels were soon bobbing down the Parana River. Today new bands of anti-Stroessner rebels reportedly stalk Stroessner from behind the laxly guarded Brazilian frontier. Last March the entire town of General E. Aquino-along with its Stroessner-appointed mayor-rose up in revolt, and had to be cowed by army bullets. Three died, 100 were arrested. During Independence celebrations last May, 2,000 students...
Believed to be privately unsympathetic toward her son Fidel's Cuban revolution, Lina Ruz de Castro stirred inevitable rumors of defection when she flew out of Havana bound for Mexico City. But upon landing at Central Airport, she loyally respun her long-playing public apologia for the new "socialism"-"Everything is fine; we are enchanted"-and explained the prosaic purpose of her trip: Daughter Emma, wife of Mexican Engineer Victor Lomeli Delgado, is expecting a first child...