Word: granma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corruption case unfolded with suspicious speed. Ochoa and six other military and Interior Ministry officials were arrested in early June. Ten days later, the Communist Party daily Granma gave a stunningly detailed account, , accusing the seven men of pocketing $3.4 million for helping Colombia's infamous Medellin cartel transport six tons of cocaine to Florida. By the time Ochoa's hearing was convened two weeks later with all the haste and splash of the ongoing scapegoat trials in China, it was a foregone conclusion that this popular and much decorated military officer would be found guilty. Ochoa's court-martial...
Castro's true motives for Ochoa's unceremonious ouster may eventually become clear. In the meantime, Cubans are watching Granma for the next twist, and the Bush Administration is proceeding with caution. Last week the President told the Miami Herald that Cuba would have to do "much more" to improve ties with the U.S. Meanwhile, there were reports that planes continue to smuggle drugs over Cuba, making a mockery of a recent pledge by Cuban officials to shoot down unauthorized planes violating its airspace on the grounds that they were probably carrying drugs...
...Dwight Eisenhower in the wake of the Normandy invasion. Last week Cuba announced that Army General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, a hero of the revolution and former top commander of Cuban forces in Ethiopia and Angola, had been arrested for drug trafficking and corruption. Ochoa, said the Communist Party paper Granma, had "reached agreements" with drug smugglers "near our territory." In addition, six other military officers were similarly arrested...
...cooperation with local tourism officials, offers classes in Spanish and agricultural science to those slumming their way through the Carribean workers' paradise. Fortytwo Canadian tourists last year took courses offered at the university, located in Villa Clara province, and tourism officials intend to offer an expanded program this year. Granma Weekly Review, Havana...
...Soviet Union. Although he had supported Castro's 1959 overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Valladares was, after a two-hour trial, sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. During his confinement, Valladares began to record images and thoughts on the torn-off margins of Castro's official newspaper, Granma. Some of these fragments, which were smuggled out of prison in dirty laundry and sent out of Cuba in toothpaste tubes, were published in Spanish as two books of poems, From My Wheelchair (1977) and The Heart in Which I Live (1980). Prefaced by a long introduction, a collection...