Word: fideles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing ahead of his land-reform timetable, Fidel Castro last week began grabbing cattle land, literally with a vengeance. The Prime Minister flew into Camagüey, Cuba's range country, and issued an order "intervening," i.e., putting under government control, all cattle ranches larger than 3,316 acres (25,000 acres of it owned by Texas' King Ranch). Armed soldiers in twos and threes marched into 400 ranches and took over 2,345,340 acres. As soon as the Red-tinged Agrarian Reform Institute can calculate what part of each ranch the owners will have to give...
...storm of protest against Fidel Castro's confiscatory agrarian-reform law * rolled into the acoustic-walled Cabinet room in Havana's presidential palace one night last week and brought on the first major split in the Cuban revolution. From 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., ministers snapped at each other across the oval mahogany table. For five of his 20 ministers, Castro had short, blunt rebukes...
...Cuba, thwarted expectations of poilitical liberty helped Fidel Castro to topple Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Yet last week, some Cubans were already beginning to suspect that their aspirations toward freedom, law and a better life may not come true...
...months, two rival rebel bands have set their sights on the brothers who run Nicaragua. President Luis and General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza. One band was infiltrated by Communists, dominated by Fidel Castro and trained in Cuban meadows. The other, anti-Communist and wary of the Cuban group, made ready on secret training grounds in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Last week the anti-Communists struck first with an air invasion of Nicaragua...
...full import of Fidel Castro's dream of a "classless" Cuba began sinking in last week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...