Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late April and early May, 1960, his active resistance to the Castro regime began. He was the co-founder of MRP, and, as he had been in the resistance to Batista, he was the sabotage expert. "All the MRP were members, with Fidel, in the 26th of July movement. We left him because of the Communists." In August, Manuel Ray resigned from Havana University in protest against the repression of academic freedom. Three months later he left Havana and came to Miami with his family to direct MRP sabotage work from there...
...broadcasts from Cuba came booming in over Florida radios, nearly blotting out local U.S. stations. By flipping a dial on their TV sets, residents of Key West could see as well as hear the spectacle. In an Orwellian marathon lasting five nights running last week. Fidel Castro paraded 200, then 400, finally almost 1,000 captured rebels into Havana's Sports Palace and subjected them to a favorite pastime of the new Cuba, the televised inquisition...
With his guns and his Communist advisers, Fidel Castro had never looked stronger. It would be a long time before Cubans, either inside or outside the island, could mount a serious threat to his dictatorship. What would be done about him now became the problem of Cuba's neighbors in the hemisphere...
...mulo Betancourt, champion of the anti-Castro left, felt forced to cancel a session of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America, scheduled to meet at the volatile University of Caracas. And to many of the credulous among the Latin American peasantry, as among Cubans themselves, the bearded Fidel Castro now seemed more of a hero, able to stand up to the Yanquis...
Since he never specified just what sort of abuses he was talking about, Kennedy left the newspapers free to speculate that he was blaming the Cuban fiasco on their indiscretions. Actually, of course, the American press has accorded the government very handsome treatment on Cuba: since December, Fidel Castro has been charging the United States with attack preparations, the Russians were writing of our rebel training sites, and the French press has been discussing the impending invasion. The only group in the world ignorant of American government activities in Guatemala and Florida has been the American public, which was told...