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...chasm is widening between Cuba's Fidel Castro and the upper classmen of Caribbean democracy-Costa Rica's ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marín-who at first welcomed Castro as the young new champion of freedom...
Elizabeth Theiler's superb choreography highlights the show. Indeed, every scene is a dance scene, and the dances are all imaginatively conceived if not always admirably executed. The brightest spot in the performance comes late in the third act when a waiter (Philip Burnham) announces "Pepe and Lolita with the Tango," and tall Wes Thum and the petite Elizabeth Theiler run through an hilarious take-off on the "tragic" dance routine...
...Havana workers. "Why say that all America must join one of the bands? Why not proclaim our right to live?" Castro's neutralism was a forthright rebuff to the U.S., but in expressing it he also slapped down one of his oldest supporters, ex-President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, who sat near by as a guest of honor...
Appeals for mercy kept coming in. A student group in Uruguay wrote Castro to condemn the "savage" executions. Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, an early Castro supporter, sent a short note "suggesting" that Castro postpone his planned Costa Rica visit. Castro was annoyed but unmoved. "Have you seen the pictures of the Cubans murdered by Batista?" he demanded. "Ave Maria Purisima! The dead shout out for justice...
...remaining rebels reached blessed refuge in the Sierra Maestra, a wilderness of sheer cliffs, snarled liana vines and pockets of thick, orange mud. Batista, in a fatal mistake, overconfidently withdrew his troops. Castro and his men lived on plantains and mangos-and waited. The first break came from Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, President of Costa Rica, 800 miles to the southwest. To a hastily cleared Sierra airstrip, Socialist Figueres sent a twin-engined Beechcraft loaded with rifles, Tommy guns, ammunition and grenades. "I felt sorry for that man," Pepe explained...