Word: fulgencio
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Americans consider themselves "preservers of freedom." However, throughout this century, dictators such as Anastasio Somoza, Ferdinand Marcos, Augusto Pinochet, Fulgencio Batista, Mobuto Sese Seko, "Papa" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier and dozens of others were supported by the U.S. and its "G.I. Joes." Don't forget those who were killed by America's "heroes." CARLOS F. ST. SOARES Rio de Janeiro...
...native land to pursue the emancipation of the poor of the earth began with a voyage. In 1956, along with Fidel Castro and a handful of others, he had crossed the Caribbean in the rickety yacht Granma on the mad mission of invading Cuba and overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landing in a hostile swamp, losing most of their contingent, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra. A bit over two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Guevara displayed such outrageous bravery and skill that he was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched what...
When one-year-old Gloria Maria Fajardo and her family left Cuba for America, Cuba never really left them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with...
...Americans cheered Fidel Castro for leading a successful revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista. We saw Castro as a Hemingwayesque hero who was going to break the chains that kept most of the Cuban citizenry in poverty, but his true colors came to light very quickly. Until Castro returns Cuba to its people and lets them decide on a form of government, the U.S. cannot consider dropping its long-established trade embargo. It would be a hypocritical travesty for us to ``forgive and forget.'' Let's not crawl into bed with the world's oldest dictator. He is far from harmless...
...never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the other nine months during the farmers' traditional tiempo muerto, or dead time. Her whole family turned out when rebel Camilo Cienfuegos passed through on his way to fight the dictator Fulgencio Batista...