Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, according to CIA Director John McCone, Cuba-trained Communist sabotage and guerrilla experts are flooding the rest of Latin America. This is precisely the sort of activity that President Kennedy, only a few months ago, said that the U.S. would not tolerate. But what does the U.S. plan to do now? Apparently, very little. Said Kennedy at his press conference, in answer to a question about hemispheric subversion from Cuba: "There has been an Organization of American States committee which has reported on the need for control. Now it is up to the Latin American countries...
Appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone did little to clear up the confusion. Between 1,000 and 1,500 Latin Americans last year traveled to Cuba for sabotage and guerrilla training, and many more have gone in the first two months of this year, said McCone. The largest contingents, he reported, came from Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador. Argentina and Bolivia. "One group of trainees was asked to mark bridges and other similar demolition targets on detailed maps of their country...
Rifles & Faith. The fighting is most intense in a 70-mile arc curving around the eastern approaches to San'a. In most areas, the royalists limit themselves to hit-and-run guerrilla raids, but here they are taking and holding ground, attacking steadily and advancing on a wide front. Reports De Carvalho: "The incredible fact is that the Egyptians are losing in Yemen. Ragged, barefoot Yemeni tribesmen, armed only with ancient rifles and faith in Allah, are kicking hell out of Nasser's elite troops despite their overpowering Soviet equipment, overwhelmingly superior firepower, and unchallenged airpower...
Rodolfo Jose Cardenas, a young leader of the Venezuelan Christian Democratic Party, last night attributed recent guerrilla disturbances and sabotage in Venezuela to extremists and Castro elements "who do not have popular support." He said that social progress and the land reform program had helped undercut extremists throughout the country...
...have four years of the land redistribution program behind us." Cardenas said, "the guerrillas would have much greater success today. Why do the guerrillas survive at all? Because it is easier to find a needle in a haystack than to destroy a guerrilla in the mountains...