Word: fidelismo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first years after the Revolution, one of the biggest headaches for U.S. authorities was the widespread expectation of Cubans in Miami that Fidelismo was a transitory thing, and that they all would be returning home soon. Many exiles set out from the Florida coasts to carry out "raids" on Cuba. The insidious conspiracy of the Bay of Pigs, and the involvement of the U.S. government in that venture, plus President Kennedy's ill-considered promise to the exiles that "the flag of freedom will someday fly in the streets of Havana again," did nothing to dispel the belief of Cubans...
...think there is a fact which is a social fact in Latin America that is far more important than Fidelismo: the growing of discontent, dissent, and nonconformism in each country developing autonomously out of their own aspirations and frustrations...
...Fidelismo...
...like to ask you another question of particular interest to Americans. What do you think is the present influence of Cuba and Fidelismo in Latin America...
...answer to "fidelismo," he asserts, is not military dictatorship and rabid anti-Communism but rather efforts toward representative democracy. He presents a list of seventeen major policy prescriptions, ranging from a guarantee of free trade and price stabilization agreements to serious shake-ups in the Alliance for Progress; he cautions that the Alliance should not be "a panicky series of loans and grants that will have no more permanent effect than a handout to an alcoholic beggar...