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...months, reports have circulated in Europe and the U.S. about Cuban "kidnapings": African youths, taken involuntarily from their peasant homes and flown to Fidel Castro's country for ideological indoctrination. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the anti-Marxist, rebel UNITA movement in Angola, has even used the word slavery to describe what is taking place. The stories, which are given some credence by Western observers in Africa, cast a shadow over one of the Cuban President's proudest achievements: the creation of 15 revolutionary schools on the Isle of Youth...
...will eventually return to their homelands, and they fervently express the wish to do so. Castro, in setting up this educational program, at some cost to Cuba, has reinforced his claim to leadership of the Third World. He has taken largely unformed young Africans and Latin Americans from a peasant society and turned them into disciplined young technicians, thoroughly indoctrinated in the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Inevitably, the graduates of the Isle of Youth will have a profound impact on the spread and consolidation of socialist movements in troubled nations for many years to come...
...perilous miscalculation of Communism in 1918: from the very beginning the Western powers failed to see the deadly threat that it represented. In Russia at that time, all previously warring factions-from the government forces to the Constitutional Democrats and the right-wing Socialists-united against Communism. Though the peasants and workers were not formally allied with these groups, and were not coordinated, thousands of peasant revolts and dozens of worker uprisings reflected the masses' opposition to Communism. A Red Army was mobilized by executing tens of thousands of men who tried to evade Bolshevik conscription. But this Russian...
...either by Soviet army conquest or political subversion. North Korea, which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin. The 1970s saw the emergence of Marxist, pro-Moscow regimes in Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia...
Guatemala's military government is regarded by much of Latin America as particularly brutal in its suppression of peasant dissent. Usually, its actions against insurgent campesinos take place in provincial backwaters, thus escaping widespread attention. This time, however, the regime moved against a foreign embassy in the full glare of worldwide publicity. Said one diplomat in Mexico City: "It is worse than the Iranian hostage business. This is outright murder...