Word: fideles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 14--The reported toll of revolutionary war crimes executions soared today to 180. Rebel chieftain Fidel Castro declared they will continue regardless of world opinion...
This week bearded Fidel Castro was moving at the head of his irregulars toward Havana, getting tumultuous welcomes from every town. His movement would have to reorganize Cuba and try to run its government; he promised that the rebels would permit the harvesting of the vital sugar crop and restore constitutional rights. But he would not personally run the show, he said. "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it," he vowed. "From now on, the people are entirely free, and our people know how to comport themselves properly...
...Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities...
...Castro Ruz, 28, Fidel's brother, took on command of front-line fighting after the rebels decided to keep Fidel as a symbol and out of danger. Raúl, who sports a Texas hat and shoulder-length hair but could not manage to grow a beard, matched Batista terror for terror, may find it hard to lay his pistol down. A onetime delegate to a student congress behind the Iron Curtain, he denounces U.S. "imperialism," likes to bait the U.S. (as when he seized 47 U.S. citizens as hostages last summer...
Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 30, is an asthmatic, Argentine-born, Communist-lining surgeon, and the rebels' best field commander. After slipping in and out of Guatemala on mysterious missions during Guatemala's Red-influenced days, Che joined Fidel Castro in Mexico in time for the invasion. He turned the tide of war with his bloody late-December campaign in the central province of Las Villas, which he commanded in spite of a broken...