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Even if Martinez Sanchez had not attempted suicide-or, as rumor had it, been shot during a scuffle in the presidential palace-his summary dismissal from office would have been dramatic enough. A protege of Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, he fought at their side in the Sierra Maestra hills, became Defense Minister in Fidel's first Cabinet, was named Acting Prime Minister when the Maximum Leader came to New York in May 1959. That October, Martinez was named Labor Minister and assigned the task of purging Cuba's strongly anti-Communist union leadership. He succeeded...
...show was mounted by Cuban exiles against Che Guevara, Fidel Castro's Minister of Industries. Che, in burnished black boots and fresh green fatigues, had flown in to denounce the U.S. before the General Assembly for everything from "aggression" in South east Asia to Americans' "sexual exhibitionism" at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. Undeterred by the ruckus outside, Guevara ranted on and on, perhaps in hope of distracting world attention from the troubles back home...
Solidarity First. The choice of Carrillo Flores, plus reports that Diaz Ordaz detests Fidel Castro, was taken by observers as an indication that Mexico may in time sever relations with Cuba, which, alone among Latin American nations, it persists in recognizing. Diaz Ordaz is unlikely to break with Cuba in the near future, however, lest he be accused of repudiating López Mateos...
...conceded that the F.S.M. at first reflected an "understandable concern" over student political rights, assailed the dissidents as "an instrument of anarchy and political aggrandizement." Even before the sit-in, he had concluded that a handful of activists in the demonstrations "have been impressed with the tactics of Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-tung...
...fiscal reforms. In El Salvador, burly Army Colonel Julio Rivera took power three years ago; he has now been freely elected constitutional President, is breaking the hold of the aristocracy and improving the lot of the peasants. "Only by giving liberty with reforms," says Rivera, "can we demonstrate that Fidel is a fraud." Guatemala's junta of colonels has given the country its biggest-and most surprising-boom in history. In Brazil, the question was not whether Leftist Joao Goulart would lead Latin America's biggest nation into civil war-but when. Under Humberto Castello Branco, a retired...