Word: pinar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave...
...shooting had died down (dead so far: 13). But the government believed that Castro was somewhere on the island, and Mexico City news reports indicated that Castro's irregulars might be heading for Yucatan, a mere 130 miles from Cuba. Batista declared modified martial law in Pinar del Rio, the indicated beachhead if Castro planned a small-boat invasion...
...workers, he says, and it is well organized in cells throughout the republic in all six provinces. Local cells control secret armed combat units, and he himself moves about the country helping to organize and train them. (The day before, I learned later, he had been in western Pinar del Rio.) I asked whether these units could stand off the army. "Do not believe the army is with Batista," he said. "It is run now by a handful of Batista officers, but in the end we can be sure of the loyalty of the greater part of the army...