Word: pinar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker...
...recruits were transported to a camp in Pinar del Rio in Cuban army trucks, got Cuban uniforms and Cuban weapons. As the weeks became months, some of the mercenaries tried to escape, were caught by Cuban army patrols. One boy, David Chervony. the 17-year-old, went on the abortive invasion of June 14, and was probably killed. The others refused to go -and were clapped into prison. They were freed after a two-day hunger strike, told to leave Cuba and keep their mouths shut. Last week the U.S. Justice Department was quietly gathering evidence to present...
...western, tobacco-growing Pinar del Rio, the secretary of the Association of Rustic Estate Owners said that he had gone to a radio station to make an anti-reform broadcast, but had been stopped by a crowd of 60 men wielding clubs. A decree announced last week established the death penalty for counter-revolutionary activity, including armed plots, invasions, sabotage or dropping leaflets...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...With Machetes." Castro more and more needs a strong political army because his half-baked reform ideas, skillfully shaped by Communists, are dividing Cuba along class-struggle lines. Last week bands of oppositionists were reported gathering in the hills of eastern Oriente and western Pinar del Rio provinces, and there were large troop movements up and down the island...