Word: maestra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Castro forces, who they were and how they felt, has long been a subject close to the heart of Contributing Editor Sam Halper, a member of TIME's staff since 1950. Before Fidel Castro came to power, Halper spent three days with him in his eastern Sierra Maestra hideout in April 1958 and there first began to suspect the ultimate direction of this romantic-seeming revolutionary, so quick to execute those he disagreed with. He described Castro then as "democrat by philosophy, autocrat by personality." In recent months so many Cuban exiles have stopped by to see Halper...
...their first few months in the Escambray, the anti-Castro rebels did virtually nothing but lie low. As more and more ex-Castro officers appeared, the senior men took command. Today Captain Evelio Duque, a veteran of Castro's Sierra Maestra fight against former Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista, is the rebels' nominal chief. In fact, the Escambray guerrillas are still divided into half a dozen forces with only loose coordination, but since last October they have been getting arms in speedboat forays and airdrops organized by Cuban refugee groups in Miami...
...propaganda (one-third of the "relief" Cuba sent after the earthquakes last May turned out to be revolutionary pamphlets). The leader of Chile's main labor confederation, orating over the coffins of two men killed in labor violence three weeks ago, threatened that Santiago would become "the Sierra Maestra" of Chile...
...illegal but never cracked down hard on it. Not until five months before Batista fell did the Communists abandon their scornful attitude toward the "bourgeois romantic," Rebel Castro, and proffer a united front. Rodríguez, youngest of the top P.S.P. triumvirate, went quietly into Castro's Sierra Maestra redoubt and began talking with leading rebels. To Castro, Rodríguez promised Red support with no strings attached. Rodríguez reportedly got the rank of captain in the rebel army and grew the standard beard, which he continues to wear...
...Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed a Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth and donned Sierra Maestra-type khaki uniforms. In Bogota, rioting pro-Castro students burned Uncle Sam in effigy...