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...26th of July Movement could have "scored an overwhelming victory over the Communists." It failed to do so because Castro appeared unexpectedly and intervened on behalf of the Communists. By 1960 the Confederation of Labor was completely controlled by Communists. In early February, 1960, the President of the PSP (Partido Socialista Popular) publically equated anti-Communism and treason. The same month Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan signed the first Soviet-Cuban agreement in Havana, "amidst an official reception that betokened more than trade relations...
Munoz went to work on the Puerto Ricans by holding to a middle course between the Republicanos and the Independentistas. In 1938 he established a third party the Partido Popular, and in 1940 the party won its first electoral victory in the insular senate. In these years of the late '30's and the early '40's Munoz had very carefully identified himself with the collectivist tide that had swept the mainland in the shape of the New Deal. The Republicanos who opposed the collective measures discredited themselves by being in the unenviable position of opposing a source of financial...
MARIO MENDEZ MONTENEGRO, 47, leader of the liberal Partido Re-voludonario (P.R.) that was outlawed in last October's M.D.N.-sponsored quickie election as too Communist, despite the fact that he once went into exile after plotting against Arbenz. Reinstated by the regime of current Provisional President Guillermo Flores Avendano, Mendez Montenegro calls Communists "my worst enemies...
...years ago, slim, smiling Governor Kubitschek. son of a Polish immigrant, heard somebody say that the 1955 presidential election would be a lottery. Commented Kubitschek: "The governor of Minas Gerais holds a ticket." A year later the left-of-center Partido Social Democratico (P.S.D.) gave Kubitschek the task of touring Brazil and getting local P.S.D. leaders to agree on a 1955 presidential candidate in advance of the party's nominating convention. Kubitschek assiduously set about selling himself. A strong selling point was his record as an industrious builder of roads and hydroelectric plants during his four years as governor...
Behind Closed Doors. The only party is Trujillo's Partido Dominicano, to which all Dominicans who want to get anywhere must belong; government employees pay 10% of their salaries into the party treasury. Behind closed doors, Dominicans curse the Era of Trujillo. But no one dares murmur in public: Dominicans have gone to jail for complaining about the weather...