Word: llada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitler had his Goebbels and Castro his José Pardo Llada. If there was one sure thing about Pardo Llada, Castro's favorite and most poisonous radio commentator, it was that he was Cuba's No. 1 opportunist. At the last possible moment, he switched from Batista's to Castro's side, and the venom he once, in Batista's pay, directed against Castro was now directed in Castro's pay against Batista. Last week he announced another switch in loyalties. He turned up at a Mexico City press conference, a defector from Castro...
...even Betancourt escaped Cuba's wrath last week. Over the Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
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