Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the violence, in each case, lay deep feelings of thwarted expectation. Partly the hope is for freedom, a hope frustrated by dictatorships and fumbling governments. Partly the hope is for justice : law that really works. Mostly the hope is for a better life. Since World War II, 26 million rural Latin Americans have left the countryside for cities that shimmer with promise of jobs. food, clothes, houses, education. They arrive to find unemployment, housing shortages. jammed schools. Each disillusionment chafes doubly as a Communist propaganda drumfire pounds on it. And the new prosperity of Europe, the new and well...
...Cuba, thwarted expectations of poilitical liberty helped Fidel Castro to topple Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Yet last week, some Cubans were already beginning to suspect that their aspirations toward freedom, law and a better life may not come true...
...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...
Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...
...Fidel Castro's dream of a "classless" Cuba began sinking in last week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...