Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since Fidel Castro took power, some 300,000 people, or 4% of Cuba's entire population, have fled the country. And still they flee...
...many Latin Americans, the House action was interpreted as a vote of no confidence in the Alliance. Staunch supporters of the program felt abandoned, complained that the U.S. had not kept its word. Predictably, Fidel Castro's Havana radio gloated over the "doomed" Alliance. To make matters a little worse, the aid cut came just when, according to Moscoso, the "objectives and principles of the Alliance are beginning to make an impact on the thinking of Latin Americans." Says Moscoso: "I've tried to explain it to them, but I'm afraid that disenchantment with the Alliance...
...island laboratory for Marxist revolution, Fidel Castro's Cuba is the place where stern Communist discipline meets Fidel Castro's quixotic Latin temperament. To assess the experiment, TIME'S Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, traveling on his Canadian passport, first visited Havana 17 months ago. Last week he returned from a second two-week trip to Cuba. A summary of his report...
...Trabajo. Fidel Castro still rails at the U.S. in his speeches. But Cuba's Communists do not seriously fear a U.S. invasion. President Kennedy, in fact, has promised them that the U.S. will not invade. Nor do they worry much about an internal uprising; after four years of power, they feel secure behind their 50,000-man army and 250,000-man militia. The slogan "Patria o Muerte [fatherland or death]" was on every wall 17 months ago; today the dinning words are Al Trabajo, meaning "to work...
...Anti-Yankee propaganda is less shrill in tone, and those vicious caricatures of Uncle Sam poking life less Latinos in the belly are disappearing from the papers. "Why is it," asks a University of Havana student, "that Kennedy wants to be friends with Khrushchev, but not with Fidel? After all, both are leaders of socialist nations...