Word: mir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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False Premise. The invaders were recruited in Cuba in recent months by an assortment of Panamanians, including Career Rebel Rubén Miró, who was tried and acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British...
...pattern of division began to take form last week in Cuba's new government. On one hand, a pair of responsible moderates, President Manuel Urrutia and Premier Jose Miró Cardona, struggled with the nation's immediate problems, notably restless labor. On the other, Fidel Castro (who hand-picked Urrutia and Miró Cardona) moved uncoordinatedly toward a nationalist, leftist social program...
...Havana the Urrutia-Miró Cardona team labored in all-night Cabinet meetings to cope with a wave of strikes. Dictator Fulgencio Batista kept Cuba's unions close-reined, and they stuck with him to the end. Now freed from restraint and wooed by Communists and Castro, they are demanding sweeping concessions...
...week's end Miró Cardona persuaded Castro to take notice of the sugar threat. Castro asked the workers "not to create problems by striking now." But he added that the "sugar magnates" obviously brought on the strikes themselves because they know Cuba needs a successful harvest this year. "They have us at a disadvantage," he snapped...
...pattern of division was enough to make a Communist exult. Said Red Leader Anibal Escalante: "The dynamic forces of the revolution will sweep away conservatives like Miró Cardona...