Word: fideles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
CUBA Rebel Report Deep in a dripping mountaintop forest, two men huddled on the ground at sunup one day last week, talking in guarded whispers. One of the men was Fidel Castro, 30, the strapping, bearded leader of the never-say-die band of anti-Batista rebels who strike and run from hideouts in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra range (TIME, Feb. 25 et ante). The other was Herbert Matthews, 57, veteran war reporter (Ethiopia, Spain, Italy) of the New York Times. In a series of three articles this week, Herb Matthews, now a Times editorial writer, told...
Swashbuckling young Lawyer Fidel Castro set off the violence when he trained a group of irregulars in Mexico and landed with 81 of them, seasick but nervy, in Cuba's southern Oriente province (TIME, Dec. 10, et seq.). The Batista forces killed about 30 in confused skirmishes, but the rest fought and dodged their way through the army and into the tangled underbrush of the Sierra Maestra...
...leading thousands to conclude that they had better stay home evenings. Apparently by plan, several bomb setters touched off blasts within earshot of the tourist-packed Hotel Nacional. In the eastern province of Oriente. where a few score irregulars (who last month invaded Cuba under Rebel Leader Fidel Castro) were still fighting from hideouts in the Sierra Maestra range, four small army garrisons were attacked. In the resulting fighting, 28 soldiers and insurgents were reported killed. And every day saboteurs up and down the island set new fires in fields of ripened sugar cane, Cuba's main source...
...sabotage went on, pointing up the fact that the rebel invaders (including their leader, Fidel Castro) who touched off the unrest were still at large, holed up somewhere in the Sierra Maestra range in Oriente. That they could still flaunt their flag of insurrection especially disconcerted Batista, for it seemed to show that his troops, sent to kill or capture the rebels, lacked the heart or the ability...