Word: fidell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s. Hearings chaired by Frank Church, then a Democratic Senator from Idaho, revealed a panoply of dirty tricks that shocked the American public. From 1960 to 1965, according to the Church report, the CIA concocted at least eight plots, none ever carried out, to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as a bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and a failed attempt on the life of Premier Patrice Lumumba...
DIED. Ernesto de la Guardia, 78, President of Panama from 1956 to 1960; in Panama City. The target of the first liberation campaign sponsored by Cuba's Fidel Castro, De la Guardia in 1959 invoked the Rio Treaty, calling on his neighbors to help repel the threat. The "invaders" turned out to be a comic-opera troupe of adventurers who had been recruited by De la Guardia's chief political rival, Roberto Arias, and his wife Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. As the coup fizzled, Arias fled, Fonteyn was arrested, and the Cubans, repudiated by Castro, were induced to surrender...
Modern geopolitics and warfare changed the governmental attitude. Franklin Roosevelt understood the strategic importance of Latin America during World War II. Harry Truman endorsed those ideas. Dwight Eisenhower was humiliated by Fidel Castro's Marxist government, and Ike planned the Bay of Pigs, which John Kennedy launched and bungled. For all of that, rousing this nation to any deep and lasting interest in Lathi America was impossible. Even with rumors flying around Washington in the summer of 1962 about the Soviet buildup in Cuba, Kennedy was only half listening, although he ordered U-2 surveillance that discovered the offensive...
...wonder if we can say with confidence that today the North American and Latin American press is not prey to manipulators. Throughout both continents, the charges by Cuba that freedom is threatened by dictators of the right is common fare for readers and watchers of the news, while [Fidel] Castro's prisons are full of poets and political dissidents...
...Marxist-Leninist victory would amount to self-government, that guerrillas are always supported by the majority, that no civilian casualties are caused by the rebels and that leftist victories are always inevitable . . . We don't think that the declarations of the Nicaraguan junta, Soviet press agencies and Fidel Castro should go unexamined by the press...