Word: maestra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burdened by as much of their shabby belongings as they could carry, some 2,000 peasants of Cuba's rebel-held Sierra Maestra region plodded down mountain tracks last week toward lowland towns in the eastern province of Oriente. Evacuated by army order, they left behind the makings of a jungle guerrilla war-to-the-fmish between troops of President Fulgencio Batista and rebels led by Fidel Castro...
...more than angry words. The government troops, trained on flat, open land, had to fight in mountainous terrain in which the rebels were thoroughly at home. Batista's forces had orders to shoot at anything that moved-but in the tangled, rain-soaked forests of the Sierra Maestra it was hard to see anything move. In the 5½ months following Castro's Mexico-based invasion, his rebels learned how to fire from cover and silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening his men by day-long forced marches and showing them...
...into the revolution begun by Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro more than five months ago. Pursuing the invaders, the army caught them at the edge of the rugged Sierra del Cristal, killed 16. Castro chose that moment for a double show of force. From his sanctuary in the high Sierra Maestra his 100-odd men swooped down on the army garrison of the tiny Oriente town of Uvero, killing eleven of Batista's soldiers and wounding 18. In Havana, Castro supporters who had tunneled under a street to a vital power cable set off 50 sticks of dynamite and crippled...
Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
...huddled on the ground at sunup one day last week, talking in guarded whispers. One of the men was Fidel Castro, 30, the strapping, bearded leader of the never-say-die band of anti-Batista rebels who strike and run from hideouts in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra range (TIME, Feb. 25 et ante). The other was Herbert Matthews, 57, veteran war reporter (Ethiopia, Spain, Italy) of the New York Times. In a series of three articles this week, Herb Matthews, now a Times editorial writer, told how he crossed the battle lines, described the rebels' guerrilla life...