Word: guevaras
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...Gordon presented his credentials, he brought with him an invitation from President Kennedy. The same day, Goulart called in Communist Poland's visiting Foreign Minister, Adam Rapacki, awarded him the Order of the Southern Cross-the same decoration that Quadros hung on Cuba's Marxist mastermind, Che Guevara, setting off the furor that in time toppled Quadros. To be sure that no one missed the point, Brazil's Foreign Minister announced that his nation no longer considered itself a member of the Western bloc, and was going to stop "playing with marked cards...
...insight. There is notion in the United States that Communism is so analogous to disease that it spreads by the same mechanism. Thus throughout 1959 and 1960 it was suggested in the daily press and the newsweeklies that Castro could easily become a Communist by proximity to Che Guevara (who was identified as a congenital Communist). It was never hinted at this time that forced economic and political reliance on the Soviet bloc could have the same effect...
...news of the private meeting. Argentina's anti-Castro armed forces went up like land mines. The three service secretaries threatened to resign. Frondizi lamely explained that if Kennedy's man Goodwin could talk to Guevara, then he, as President of Argentina, could see him, too, couldn't he? Over TV, he emphasized that his government was Christian, democratic, and committed to the West. Two nights later, he was on TV again saying that Castro "employs procedures which we Argentines reject categorically...
...week's end, the brass was still rumbling noisily. And Frondizi's Foreign Minister Adolfo Múgica. who originally leaked the news of the Frondizi-Guevara téte a téte, was asked to resign...
...urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their...