Word: pinar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponents stood their ground-which is chiefly the round green hills of tobacco-growing Pinar del Río province. The 20,000 farmers united there in the Group of Owners of Rustic Estates held four big rallies that showed the most outspoken opponents of land reform to be gnarled-handed small holders. Felix Fernÿndez Pérez, the group's president, owner of 149 acres and once exiled as a fervent Castro supporter, told 1,000 cheering men: "Castro has fooled us." Said semiliterate Farmer Macho Villar, who also fought for Castro: "I will continue...
...Havana 1,000 angry cattlemen met to condemn land reform as "slavery," "confiscation" and a "precursor of violence and convulsions." A mass meeting of rice growers denounced the reform as uneconomic; Pinar del Río landholders pledged themselves "to defend our property, acquired by the efforts, battles and privations of years." Five Havana newspapers criticized the reform. Avance noted that the regime could no longer "dust off that celebrated little word 'counterrevolutionary' for everyone who dissents from official opinion...
...principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista's Pinar del Rio Urgency Tribunal...
Last week six men went through the Cabaña routine, convicted of multiple murder and robbery of their victims. In Bayamo, Oriente province, three army privates were shot for torturing and killing four prisoners. At Pinar del Rio three ex-soldiers were executed; at Manzanillo a policeman and a soldier were cut down.* At week's end the total of the executed stood at 302, with more to come. On trial for their lives in Santiago were 20 army pilots and 20 bombardiers, charged with "genocide" for bombing and strafing "open towns" in rebel-held Oriente province. Many...
Public opinion backed tough measures. Reason: in weed-clogged ditches, in police-station cellars and in shallow, unmarked graves, hundreds of Cuban families were searching for the bodies of their rebel sons, slain by the cops. One abandoned well in the western province of Pinar del Rio yielded 13 decomposing corpses...