Word: fidelismo
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...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...
...announcing the blockade October 22, Mr. Kennedy reviewed Cuba's drift to the left as a betrayal of an essentially nationalistic revolution. But he did not comment on the real paradox of fidelismo: the achievement of Castro's concrete national objectives rests on external economic support. Political independence and social progress can come only through a balanced dependence so the great powers. But to the power that once held away, this balance represents a defeat: to the newly influential, it represents a victory. Minimal U.S. influence in Cuba came to mean humiliation, just as similar influence implied some sort...
...chain of democratic upheavals. But in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, the army, while shucking its dictator-boss, remained nearly intact and moderated the transition to free elections. In Cuba, as in the Mexico of 1910, the people rose to smash the army. The only force left in Cuba is fidelismo, an adherence to whatever scheme pops into the hero's mind...
...Cuba's labor and its Negroes (25% of the total population, some 40% of Oriente's). Said a wealthy, aging Havana rebel last week: "From now on, if Castro wants our money he'll have to take our advice along with it. The days of blind Fidelismo are over...