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...week (enough for three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with a strange mixture of Marxist-Leninist self-criticism and the regal We. "Only a few months ago, we made formal promises of commitments we have not carried out," said Castro. "We are ashamed. Who is to blame? The administrators, the rulers and everyone...
...warned, "our country will face great difficulties, and serious harm will be inflicted on the cause of building Communism." To get Red farms in the black, he demanded sweeping, immediate reforms that include doubling the output of farm machines, a tenfold boost in fertilizer production by 1980, and increased "Leninist incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain...
...that he calls himself a "Marxist-Leninist," they have started reading him lectures on party discipline and warning against the "cult of the personality." Bias Roca made the point in a speech ostensibly praising a long-dead Cuban Communist Party official. The late Red hero, said Roca, "despite his enormous authority, despite his leading position within the party, gave constant evidence of strictly submitting himself to discipline. He never trusted his own decisions alone, he never believed that he alone could have the final word in all matters. He constantly consulted the committee, the organization . . ." The next night, addressing Communist...
...deplore Argentina's performance at Punta del Este ("Lamentable," "Deplorable," "We are ashamed"), the military chiefs stood firm. Eventually, Frondizi gave in, or seemed to. In a communiqué he insisted that Argentina was not "breaking solidarity," that it fully agreed about "the absolute incompatibility of the Marxist-Leninist regime with the Inter-American system," and that his government would "comply strictly" with the majority decision at Punta del Este...
...That the present government of Cuba, which has officially identified itself as Marxist-Leninist, is incompatible with the principles and objectives of the inter-American system...