Word: maestra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contagion or psychological empathy, there is evidence that organizations like the Panthers, in the U.S., and Palestinian guerrillas exchange not only ideas and moral support but also financial backing. There is no lack of spots where guerrillas of several continents can get together. In Cuba, Fidel Castro's Sierra Maestra Guerrillero camps have taught more than 5,000 foreign recruits such techniques as sabotage, bomb making and murder since 1961. Most of Castro's trainees have come from Latin America, but he has had numerous callers from the U.S. Among the American Weathermen visiting Cuba have been Mark Rudd, Bernardine...
Autobiographical Bent. Che's Bolivian diaries have since been published, as have portions from the other notebooks. A good deal of the writing, however, has never appeared in print. Andrew St. George, a former LIFE contract reporter who accompanied Che in Cuba's Sierra Maestra, was later invited by the Bolivian government to read and copy parts of Che's papers. From St. George's material emerges a fascinating if fragmentary glimpse of Che Guevara's final days of life...
Such ideas were hardly original. During his Sierra Maestra days, Che carried in his knapsack the Spanish edition of an obscure two-volume Soviet manual called The Clandestine Regional Committee in Action. Written by Aleksei Fyodorov, a World War II Russian guerrilla leader, the book spells out methods for establishing sources of supply as well as discussing such everyday guerrilla problems as how to handle a hard-drinking subordinate, how to check out a supply runner suspected of double-dealing, and how to use propaganda. "You see?" Che would say of Fyodorov's ideas. "It's all come...
...majority of Cubans favor Castro? The only way of knowing would be through free elections. Cuba has not had any such elections since 1948. The criminal and corrupt dictatorship of Batista could not afford the risk of allowing free elections. Although Castro's revolutionary July Manifesto from Sierra Maestra formally outlined free elections to take place after one year. Castro's dictatorship (like Batista's) has not been able to afford the risk of allowing free elections...
Then came the triumph of the Revolution. As Lazara remembers. "Our people always waited for that success. When Fidel was in the Sierra Maestra, all the people knew he was there, and waited for night to listen to the news on the underground radio, about the battles and all the activities of the Revolution. When Fidel and his comrades won, all the people went to the streets and waited...