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...Administration's Central American policy as "wrong and potentially dangerous." Meanwhile, conservative groups and some Cuban exiles pressured the White House to oust Reagan's other Hispanic appointee, Cuban-born Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, a Yale University economics professor, because of his alleged sympathies with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. But Reagan insisted at a press conference that he hoped the entire commission, some members of which have not yet cleared routine security checks, would be passed "intact...
Armando Valladares was a 23-year-old minor bureaucrat in Cuba's Ministry of Communications when the police arrested him in December 1960. The charge: "counterrevolutionary activity" because he had publicly criticized Fidel Castro's increasing dependence on the Soviet Union. Although he had supported Castro's 1959 overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Valladares was, after a two-hour trial, sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. During his confinement, Valladares began to record images and thoughts on the torn-off margins of Castro's official newspaper, Granma. Some of these fragments, which were smuggled...
...public if I did not refrain from my "counterrevolutionary" activities. My answer caused him to slam down the phone. Subsequently, I received an anonymous telephone call warning me they would make public a film showing me exercising. They were, I presume, hoping to discredit my claims of paralysis. Finally, Fidel Castro wrote to French Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais describing me as a murderer and threatening to supply the proof. I publicly challenged Castro to bring forth his alleged proof. I am not afraid of the result...
...letter to the Presidents of the so-called Contadora countries (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama, which first met last January on the Panamanian island of Contadora) praising their efforts to work out such a regional pact. In so doing he quite unintentionally joined, of all people, Cuban President Fidel Castro, who lauded the Contadorans' efforts. But the Administration at the same time gave a cautious reception to a Nicaraguan offer to participate in multilateral peace talks and negotiate six specific points. Indeed, Reagan's letter to the Contadora Presidents stressed the need for democracy in the region in terms that...
...toward guns, toughness and tolerance of the extreme right. Early in the Reagan Administration, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig struck just the wrong note with his tough talk about "going to the source." He meant Cuba. He seemed to be suggesting that if the U.S. could just clobber Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua would behave, or better yet, go away. He also inadvertently aroused suspicion that he was blind to indigenous sources of turmoil, such as poverty and social injustice...