Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Havana's airport, Mikoyan climbed out of his plane from Moscow in the manner of a proconsul come to view his latest province. Waiting and happily savoring the event were Fidel Castro and Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, president of Cuba's national bank and the government's leading...
...rapidly overtaking the U.S. in all production indices." Russia's technique, the professional revolutionary told the amateurs, was that it took over agriculture and industry and gave them to their "rightful owners, the people, confiscating without compensation all the means of production." In the same groove Banker Guevara, over TV the night before, announced that the revolution planned to take over at least 51% control of the basic industries in Cuba...
...Near Varadero Beach on Dec. 7, a contingent of bearded Cubans headed by Communist Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara boarded a seagoing hydraulic dredge owned by the M & M Dredging & Construction Co. of Miami, pulled down the U.S. flag, seized the dredge, a derrick barge, two seagoing tugs and an auxiliary boat worth a total...