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...Israel's U.N. Ambassador Chaim Herzog reported last week that approximately a brigade of Cuban troops-usually about 3,000 men-has been with the Syrian army facing Israel on the Golan Heights for two years. This even though Fidel Castro's government last July formally disavowed the export of revolution...
Worrying about food, lodging, schools and health leaves slumdwellers little time to think about the future. Surprisingly, many of the poor remain deeply conservative and have not yet been radicalized by leftist rhetoric. Fidel Guzmán, who as a child supported himself on the streets by selling Chiclets, admits that if he were not so cynical he might have become a Communist. As it is, he has no faith in politicians of any persuasion. He feels that only the rich benefit from Mexico's social and economic progress. "Mexico City dehumanizes people," he says...
Cuba's Fidel Castro. At least eight times between 1960 and 1965, the CIA plotted to kill Castro. American underworld figures and Cubans hostile to Castro were enlisted. The CIA gave them encouragement, as well as lethal pills and doctored cigars, but obviously the plots failed...
There are only three Latin American leaders with any sort of audience outside their own country: Fidel Castro, but he has somehow become slightly old-hat, either as a menace or an inspiration; Luis Echeverria of Mexico, presiding over a dynamic entrepreneurial economy while talking a medium-left, aggressively Third World line; and one South American, the impressive Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. Perez heads one of the only two working democracies in South America (Colombia is the other), and he has oil, 2.4 million bbl. a day. He is not self-righteous about his country's democracy...
...Dallas stems mainly from what Americans have since learned about their Government. The Viet Nam War and Watergate have inspired a new skepticism about the veracity and motives of high Government officials. The disclosure that some CIA agents schemed with Mafia racketeers to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro has fanned theories about a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. So, too, has the recent admission by the FBI that it secretly destroyed a threatening note from Lee Harvey Oswald, although that reckless act was apparently done only to save the agency from embarrassment. Those facts were withheld from the Warren Commission...