Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fighting growing Red influence, the moderates had been meeting every Thursday with Castro for skull sessions warning that his monstrous agrarian reform was devouring the Cuban economy. A few weeks ago, Pazos, Ray and Perez found that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that...
Economic Commissar. With the shakeup, the form of the Castro government, months in the shaping, came clear. Fidel Castro, who helicopters about the country dispensing largesse from the blue National Bank checkbook he always carries in his breast pocket, is political chief. His pony-tailed brother Raul is military boss...
Empire Builder. In addition to banking, Guevara has grabbed off half the burgeoning National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA), which is rapidly matching the rebel army in size and importance. Its headquarters is the most tightly guarded building in Havana. As boss of INRA's industrialization division, Guevara has...
The people around and under the Fidel-Raúl-Che triumvirate give anti-Communists no cause for comfort. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, chief of INRA's land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography...
Torch for the Church. About the only countering voice still around comes not from moderates but from a brand of leftist nationalists who do not like the U.S., but will go along with the Reds only to a point. The top anti-Communist influences are labor leaders and the Roman...