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Reston did not hide his distaste for Castro's Cuba. He said that the "self-interest of the [U.S.] undoubtedly requires the overthrow of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, which is providing a political and, increasingly, a military base of communism in the Carribean" (column, April 12, 1961). The column was headlined "The Moral Question...
After the Bay of Pigs invasion, similarly, Mansfield wrote that "our sensitivity to this personality [Fidel Castro] and to the Cuban people is not what it ought to be." He recommended "seriously re-evaluating our own base policies on the rim of the Soviet Union" if there was to be forceful opposition to "the establishment of Soviet missiles or any other kind of base for Russian forces in Cuba...
...Allende's released photographs of the President taken inside the besieged presidential palace on the morning of the coup. He is seen in the company of his guards wearing a metal combat helmet and carrying a Soviet-made automatic rifle given to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Fascinating though they are, the photos do not resolve the questions about how Allende died. The military junta that now runs Chile claims that Allende committed suicide by killing himself with his rifle. But Allende's widow, Hortensia Bussi de Allende, now living in exile in Mexico, disputes that...
...this new form of imperialist repression which has produced urban guerrilla movements. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara fought their battles in the countryside, among and with peasants in predominantly rural Cuba. They established what they called a foco, a zone controlled by the revolutionaries, and expanded that area until the Batista government fled. Action in the cities, strikes and work stoppages, was merely supportive...
Carlos Marighela greatly admired Fidel and Che, but he modified their theory markedly in applying it to Brazil. The growth of industrialism under the gorillas meant that Brazilian cities were naturally far more important as arenas of conflict than were Cuban cities. The situation in Uruguay was even more pronounced: fully one-half of the country's two and one-half million people live in Montevideo, the capital, and any revolutionary scenario would have to take that factor in account...