Word: imperialismo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.T.C.) and the Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political hotfoot...
...formal dinners served mineral water from the hills of Mexico. He spoke no Spanish, said he was too old to learn. But he always listened affably to Mexican oratory, of which he understood not a word. Mexicans soon got used to seeing him smilingly applaud their thunderous speeches denouncing imperialismo yanqui...