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...similar war is being waged in Algeria today. Or take Cuba. A war was fought there too. It began as an uprising against a tyrannical regime, backed by U.S. imperialism. Led by Fidel Castro, the people of Cuba...
Words, bombs and bullets were the way Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba's presence in Latin America echoed through the hemisphere last week. The words ranged from mildly disapproving to outraged at the OAS gathering of 21 nations at Punta del Este, Uruguay. Many of the assembled diplomats were forcibly reminded of Castro's disorganizing power back in their home territories. In Venezuela, pro-Castro violence left 32 dead, and for a time made things warm for the government of militantly anti-Castro President Rómulo Betancourt. Riots or demonstrations erupted in Brazil. Peru, Chile. Mexico...
...weather was balmier, and in Russia no one would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...
...have five million good reasons to feel confident. Those who oppose it by upholding Duvalier in the name of progress have misread the lessons of Cuba. Duvalier is every bit as good a friend as Fulgencio Batista. And he will leave us with enemies as resentful and recalcitrant as Fidel Castro...
Behind the Iron Curtain, the third anniversary of Fidel Castro's victory was greeted with a flood of congratulatory telegrams-including "many requests" from Russian parents for permission to name newborn offspring (Fidel). In Havana, Castro led into the anniversary with another of those speeches bragging about how cleverly he had concealed his Communism in the early days. "If, while we were in the Sierra Maestra, we had said, 'We are Marxist-Leninists,' it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the lowlands." But among the other nations of the hemisphere, Castro...