Word: fidelista
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...Hope?" asks the 60-year-old Fidelista, who fought with Castro's guerrillas in the mountains a generation ago. He flicks on a cheap cigarette lighter and, in its feeble glow, takes stock of his home in Santiago de Cuba, the officially designated "Hero City" of the revolution: no running water, paint peeling off the walls, a wild pig snuffling around the main corridor. "I need a candle to look for hope here...
...airtime to speculation that Castro's regime will collapse. Some emigres are even preparing to sell their property and return to their homeland. To Miami Herald columnist Sergio Lopez-Miro, such actions constitute "wishful thinking cum madness." Or call it hope -- the same hope that people like the Fidelista in Santiago have been searching for in the dark. Uva Clavijo, a Miami-based fiction writer who came to the U.S. in 1959 at the age of 15, has decided she will return to Cuba if Castro falls, and she believes it will be soon. "History has accelerated...
...that Rodriguez was "relieved of his duties." Rodriguez would remain in the Cabinet "in charge of directing the study of numerous problems of national economy." The Soviets could not miss the point. For his chief INRA assistant, Fidel passed over Rodriguez' first vice minister and named instead a Fidelista, whose previous experience was as CO of Cuba's air force...
...weird unreality hung over the sleepy, sun-baked capital of the world's newest "people's republic." Cuban-trained "freedom fighters" sporting Fidelista beards and berets stalked the narrow twisting streets. Carloads of whooping blacks careered through the Arab and Indian quarters, looting and shooting. Radios blared ominous messages of doom and death. From the hood of one car dangled a grisly trophy: the testicles of a murdered Arab...
Nevertheless, the two largest groups of student terrorists are the Communists and the Fidelista MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Though indistinguishable from the Communists in action, according to Gonzalez, the MIR derives much of its strength from those, especially from rural areas, who do not want to incur the stigma attaching to Communism--"I wouldn't want my mother to hear I was a Communist...