Word: granma
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...story of the obscure Argentine doctor who abandoned his profession and his 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...
Reforms seemed to be in the air when the country's 213-member Central Committee held a special one-day session in Havana two weeks ago and issued what the Cuban Communist Party daily Granma trumpeted as "transcendental pronouncements." The "revitalization" measures initially seemed to be a belated curtsy to the changes initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev. But a closer reading indicated that the proposals were aimed at distancing Cuba from events across the Atlantic...