Word: guez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cozumel Island, a fishing community eleven miles off the Yucatan peninsula. The Mexicans immediately granted asylum, and within an hour a committee of Cozumel townfolk was rounding up clothing, food and money. Last week the refugees were negotiating U.S. visas for entry to Miami. Their leader, Rafael Rodríguez Alfonso, 48, longtime member of the Cuban underground, is already talking about another move. "We don't want to sit here and eat ham and eggs," he said. "We want to fight...
...First order of business was the election of Venezuela's Ambassador Carlos Sosa Rodríguez, 51, to the presidency of the Assembly. Approved by a vote of 99 nations (eleven abstained and Nepal arrived too late to cast a ballot), the trim, businesslike lawyer-accountant accepted the gavel from Pakistan's bearded Zafrulla Khan. Then, in Spanish (he is also fluent in French and English), Sosa Rodriguez introduced himself as "a son of the native land...
Sosa Rodríguez is just that. A great-great-granduncle on his father's side signed Venezuela's preliminary declaration of independence in 1810. Sosa Rodríguez was ambassador in London when Marcos Pérez Jiménez made himself President in 1952. He went into self-exile, returned when Dictator Pérez Jiménez was overthrown, and since 1958 has been Venezuela's permanent representative...
...increasingly influential advocate of economic revision is Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, 50, goateed, urbane boss of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He is a longtime Communist in a land where, as an experienced Western diplomat puts it, "instinctively the old Communists follow the Moscow line, the new Communists the Peking line." Says Rodríguez: "First we must satisfy our population. If we must reduce the tempo of our industrial development in order to produce consumer goods, then we must...
Speakers of Garbage. Singling out Aníbal Escalante, 53, third-ranking Cuban Red after Party Boss Blas Roca and Strategist Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Castro launched a violent attack. Escalante and other party men like him were working to undermine the revolution by setting up underground cells to seize control of all revolutionary institutions. Already the old guerrilla fighters were being shunted aside by party functionaries. "Did they think they won the revolution in a raffle?" cried Castro. The "boastfulness" of the old Communist militants and the belief that those who do not belong to them...