Word: fideles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the hoarse throats of 250,000 Cubans jammed before the presidential palace in Havana rose the chilling cry: "Pa-re-don! To the wall! To the firing squad!" By whipping up a frenzy of hatred, Fidel Castro last week got mob approval for a resumption of the drumhead justice that earlier put to death 551 Cubans accused as supporters of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Now the blood purge would be aimed at defectors in the band of barbudos (bearded ones) who lifted him to power, of whom hundreds are now in prison...
Castro's younger brother, Raul, was detailed to warm up the crowd before Fidel himself appeared. "None of our prisoners are tortured," he cried. "But when necessary, we execute them." The crowd of peasants and union members, released from work for the day and trucked in from outlying provinces for the show, screamed its delight. At the appearance of Fidel himself, who landed in a helicopter carrying a new Belgian rifle (one of 24,000 he recently bought for his troops), the mob chanted for eight solid minutes...
...policy since Fidel Castro's rise to power has been a high-minded try at tolerance of the inevitable anti-U.S. excesses of a sweeping revolution; the policy was exemplified in the appointment of friendly, low-keyed Career Ambassador Philip Bonsai. But a fortnight ago Castro falsely charged that a pamphlet-dropping plane from Florida had really loosed bombs over Havana (TIME, Nov. 2). With that premise, Castro proceeded furiously to whip up feeling against the U.S. Dropping some of its imperturbability, the U.S. last week made reply in a note stiff with such phrases as "serious concern...
Invited Guests. Both assessments were the product of the big new role that the U.S. has quietly begun to play in the hitherto chaotic affairs of Haiti. President François Duvalier invited the U.S. in. Caught between two strong-arm neighbors -Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Dominican Republic's Rafael Truiillo-Duvalier talked enviously of "Jamaica and Puerto Rico, whose political destinies are stabilized by larger countries." The President frankly described his own bureaucracy as "incompetent...
...Which last week seized 20,000 acres from Ramon Castro, who a year ago bought Fidel's share of the family holdings...