Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stoking the conflagrations, police informers say, is a cabal of fewer than 50 extremists, whose efforts are abetted by Fidel Castro. Earlier this year, a band calling themselves Armed Commandos for Liberation lay claim to the fires in letters to the press. By making it impossible for businesses to obtain insurance, they aim to evict "the Yankee invader and his investment of imperialist capital" from the island...
Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...
...capture and summary execution last October by Bolivian soldiers, Cuban Guerrilla Ernesto (Che) Guevara became an instant martyr of the New Left. Fidel Castro's former second-in-command was the victim of his own botched insurgency, in which he failed to follow his own precepts for guerrilla warfare. Yet, in the seven months since his death, the Che legend has given rise to a cult of almost religious hero worship among radical intellectuals, workers and students across much of the Western world...
...years after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, thousands of small private businessmen continued to eke out a living, operating pushcarts or running groceries, bars, butcher shops and laundries. Up to last month, more than 55,000 such businesses were still struggling along, accounting for 25% of the island's $250 million worth of goods sold annually. Last week, capping a month-long campaign, Castro's government announced that this last, lonely bastion of capitalism has been all but wiped out and the dispossessed businessmen put to work in fields and factories. Cried the official newspaper Granma...
...Rhodesia [March 15]. These inhuman acts are deplorable and have been denounced as such by the Pope and other world leaders. While I completely, agree with them, I wonder why these same leaders have not lifted a finger to protest the mass executions conducted by the regime of Fidel Castro against Cubans whose only crime is a desire to be free...