Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This kind of mess naturally calls for scapegoats. A few weeks ago, Fidel "liberated" his Economy Minister and overall economic planner. The unlucky companero was Regino Boti, 43, a Marxist convert who once served on the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America. Boti's new assignment: a condensed-milk plant in Oriente province, where he will oversee 200 to 300 em ployees. The No. 1 man now in control of Cuba's economy seems to be Minister of Industries Che Guevara, 36, who has long been Fidel's all-round handyman...
...center: Salvador Allende, 56, rasping, demagogic leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP), and Eduardo Frei, 53, the forceful, hawk-nosed head of the Christian Democratic Party. In the 1958 elections, Allende came within a hairbreadth 29,000 votes of becoming the Hemisphere's first avowed Marxist to be freely elected President. This time -even before the break with Cuba-Allende figured to make it close again...
Picture on the Wall. In his campaign, Allende plays on all Chile's discontents -its underdeveloped economy, unemployed city dwellers, illiterate back-country peasants. Among his strongest allies are Chile's 30,000 card-carrying Communists and their followers. He openly calls himself a Marxist, once termed Castro a "political genius," keeps Fidel's picture on his office wall and a blowup of the anti-Yanqui Declaration of Havana just outside the door...
Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana's Marxist Premier, finally gave in-at least for the time being. Last week East Indian members of lagan's agricultural workers' union were going back to work after the longest and bloodiest strike in the little South American colony's turbulent history. Even with the six-month strike officially over, peace is returning slowly...
...Some Marxist neo-Avant-Garde writers from Italy, said Sorgio Perosa of the University of Venice, declare that the disintegration of Western society is shown most clearly in its language...