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...conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work, was particularly brilliant. And it would be unfair not to recognize Mussolini's great qualities of political imagination. Other dictators, from Hitler and Nasser to Sukarno and Fidel Castro, are inferior imitators...
...strategy, aimed at fomenting guerrilla-style "wars of national liberation," was adopted at a top-level meeting in Havana last winter at which the Soviet leadership yielded to pressure from Castroites to abandon its via pacifica policy of nonviolent penetration in Latin America. Moscow agreed to assist and finance Fidel Castro's program to "export the revolution." Havana's General Directorate of Intelligence, which has already trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans in combat and propaganda techniques, has stepped up its activities. U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann says: "It's going...
...older and wealthier families. Were it not for the force of circumstance, he would probably still be just a successful Lima architect. His political enemies call him an adventurer, a buccaneer, a demagogue. In his messianic public oratory, he has at times approached the emotional level of a Fidel Castro. But the revolution that Belaunde carries forward is peaceful, democratic, and made in Latin America. As far as the U.S. is concerned, he is the very model of an Alianza President...
...four years after the victory, Rodriguez edited the party daily Hoy, always seemed to turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
Almost simultaneously, Castro announced that he himself was taking over INRA, and that Rodriguez was "relieved of his duties." Rodriguez would remain in the Cabinet "in charge of directing the study of numerous problems of national economy." The Soviets could not miss the point. For his chief INRA assistant, Fidel passed over Rodriguez' first vice minister and named instead a Fidelista, whose previous experience was as CO of Cuba's air force...