Word: guevaras
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...painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied by every device of economics, technology and culture at the dictatorship's disposal...
Pass the Handout. Flying home from his eight-week trip to the Soviet bloc. Wise Man Che Guevara brought his present for the newborn Cuba: agreements that make Cuba's shattered economy dependent on Russian handouts. The Reds promised to import such Cuban goods as hides and sugar, unneeded in Russia; they promised to send to Cuba a $250 million aid program, including an oil refinery, a steel mill, power plants. Added the joint communique: in case the U.S. "carries out its threat of not buying more sugar from Cuba," Russia commits itself to purchase 2,700,000 tons...
...Cuban Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara; discussing the U.S. embargo of Cuba...
...local militia, intercepted two boys heading into hills that still hide some 300 oppositionists. Dr. Fajardo opened fire and was shot dead in the fight. Fidel Castro gave Fajardo the revolutionary version of a Chicago-style funeral, and bitterly blamed "the bandits of the Pentagon." Meanwhile, in Peking, "Che" Guevara got for Cuba's bare-larder economy the biggest foreign loan Red China ever made-$60 million for five years at no interest. It was growing difficult for Cuba to turn back, or even pause...
...former deputy of Che Guevara, Cuba's Minister of Finance, told a small audience last night that Cuba has become, especially in the last 70 days, "one of the most horrible police states in history," and that Russia is using the country as a tool to dominate South America...