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...Cuba, thwarted expectations of poilitical liberty helped Fidel Castro to topple Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Yet last week, some Cubans were already beginning to suspect that their aspirations toward freedom, law and a better life may not come true...
Cuba's Communists, who keep shoving Fidel Castro to the left as they march side by side in the island's revolution, pushed a little too hard last week. Tempers flared, raising the possibility of a split. Then the Red leaders realized the folly of alienating Castro before they could fully control him, told their membership that attacking the revolution is still "inexpedient," got back to the task of making the revolution theirs...
Cuba's bearded Premier Fidel Castro dropped all affairs of state to take personal command of the search for his kid brother Raul, 27, listed among the missing after taking off in a light plane for a short flight from Havana. Next day Raul, trigger-happy commander in chief of Cuba's armed forces, turned up safe in Cuban swampland after a crash landing in a storm. Just to complicate matters, the rescue plane that picked up Raul to return him to Havana in triumph landed with another crash (jammed landing gear) near the capital. Looking more than...
Though it has never been enforced, Article 90 of Cuba's constitution says that "large landholdings are proscribed," and "the acquisition and possession of land by foreign persons and companies shall be restrictively limited." Last week Prime Minister Fidel Castro enforced Article 90 with a vengeance. His agrarian-reform decree, signed in the six-hut eastern village of La Plata, scene of one of the first guerrilla attacks in Castro's revolution, outlawed the $300 million U.S. investment in Cuban sugar...
THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America," said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened Latin America's deep yearning to reap a better living from underdeveloped land. The Venezuelan Cabinet, for example, moved ahead with a land reform bill...