Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, impressive, two-page ads stressing Cuba's charm and conviviality ("If Cuba could be said to have one predominant art it would have to be the art of living") were appearing in U.S. newspapers and magazines. But Harris began to doubt his own copy when Ernesto (Che) Guevara became Economics Minister of Cuba and early in 1960 cut off Harris' monthly checks. Harris flew to Havana, saw Castro, and "had to listen to 20 minutes of demagoguery." He tried again, waited 82 hours in Guevara's office. Guevara just laughed in Harris' face and asked...
Delegates to the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este fell silent as bearded Che Guevara, the Kremlin's best friend in Cuba, stood up to deliver his final pitch. "Cuba's delegation has asked again and again and never has received an answer whether Cuba has the right to participate in the Alliance for Progress," said Che smoothly. "Cuba's socioeconomic system may be different from the rest of the nations of this continent, but Cuba nevertheless is part of the whole. The first mark of coexistence is the peaceful recognition of the system...
...Punta del Este: Was Haedo state dinner held in main ballroom of Cantegril Country Club? Did Guevara lead his entire retinue into the ladies' room? Was there no applause after Guevara main speech, or was there applause from the gallery? Did three-or four -Cubans lunge for Guevara shouting "Murderer!" ? For the answers. See THE HEMISPHERE, Troublemaker at Work...
...spokesman was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. While Cuba's spinach-bearded economic commissar, Che Guevara, glowered in his chair, Dillon opened the conference with the most gen erous offer of help in U.S. history. In a flat, toneless voice that failed to hide the tre mendous promise of his words, Dillon vowed that the U.S. would take the lead in securing $20 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years to raise Latin America's living standards. "We welcome the revolution of rising expectations" he said, "and we intend to transform it into a revolution...
With the broad outline, the delegates found little to bicker about. The loudest bickering came from Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing...