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...some top-level wrangling with Pinar Gote, who has a monopoly over travel to the Galapagos, and two high Ecuadoran Air Force officers, produced a viable compromise. Sulloway credited an introductory letter from President Pusey and the energetic intervention of an American working for the Ecuadoran National Tourist Agency with breaking the deadlock...
Great emphasis is now placed on diversifying the structure of the agricultural sector. The revolutionary planners are now pushing citrus fruit production. In the last three years, Cubans have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
Castro: "No, but I think we'll have a better average." Puff. Chop. Chonk. "Las Villas has about 500,000 tons less of cane than last year," chop, "and Oriente has 100,000 tons less." Chonk. "The only province that is the same as last year is Pinar del Rio, so the harvest will be just a bit over 5,000,000 tons...
Still other reports tell of an unsuccessful ambush of a Castro motor caravan in Pinar del Rio province, and a bomb planted at a Cuban power plant where Castro was scheduled to talk...
...dogs panicked the prisoners, and the militia fired into the crowd, wounding two. After the initial wave of 30 executions in the invasion's first 48 hours, the regime stopped issuing bulletins-but did not stop killing. The reports are that it still goes on, and travelers from Pinar del Rio province say that for a time after the invasion, executions were quietly carried out there almost every night...