Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...falling out among Marxists was something new for Cuba. Suddenly, Fidel Castro, until now Cuba's Maximum Leader and self-declared No. 1 Marxist, had lashed out publicly at the island's official Communist Party and had posed a fascinating question: Who is the real boss in Cuba-Castro, who takes orders only from himself, or the Communist Party's old-line professionals, who get their instructions from Moscow? Revolution in a Raffle. Castro's answer was as clear as he could make it-he was still in charge. Last month, in a marathon...
...insisted Hoy, official organ of the Communist Party. Yet only a unity of necessity joins Castro's wild-eyed impulsive revolutionaries and the party's longtime regulars. And it is doubtful that any lasting meeting of minds can come between the mob-rousing and vain Fidel and the shadowy, heavy-set mulatto who heads Cuba's Communist Party and commands its maneuvers...
...Petty Putsch." At that, the Communists almost missed the boat with Fidel. When Castro led a gang of young rebels in a foolhardy frontal assault on Batista's Moncada barracks in 1953, the old party-liners called it a "petty-bourgeois putsch." In 1957. when Castro went into the Sierra Maestra hills to start his guerrilla war, they again dismissed him as an ineffectual "adventurer"-a Communist phrase for amateurs. But Castro survived and grew stronger, and the possibility of an alliance began to dawn on both sides. Though Castro was a hero in the hills with great popularity...
Nonetheless, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, a middle-class intellectual who was generally considered No. 2 to Roca in the party, went into the hills to make contact with Castro's revolutionaries. Fidel already had a woolly-minded vision of himself as a Marxist messiah, and he apparently believed that the professional Communists had something to offer his revolution. When Castro came down from the hills to Havana in January 1959. Rodriguez came too, proudly sporting the rebel beard he still wears. Once more the Communists, in their search for power, had found someone to hang onto...
...O.R.I., there would now be a five-man secretariat headed by himself; Roca, listed No. 5, was the only old Communist named. Cuba would now have a Vice Premier to take over in case anything happened to the Maximum Leader himself: he would be Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Then Castro went on TV to denounce the Reds and reassert his own leadership. He could not lambaste Roca (he was too strong), but he lashed out at Roca's lieutenant, Anibal Escalante, purged him from O.R.I, and drove him into exile in Czechoslovakia. Bias Roca himself dropped...