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...four years after the victory, Rodriguez edited the party daily Hoy, always seemed to turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
Even if Martinez Sanchez had not attempted suicide-or, as rumor had it, been shot during a scuffle in the presidential palace-his summary dismissal from office would have been dramatic enough. A protege of Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, he fought at their side in the Sierra Maestra hills, became Defense Minister in Fidel's first Cabinet, was named Acting Prime Minister when the Maximum Leader came to New York in May 1959. That October, Martinez was named Labor Minister and assigned the task of purging Cuba's strongly anti-Communist union leadership. He succeeded...
...America's tight capital markets. The Latin nations produce roughly the same kinds of basic commodities, sell little to one another. Railroads, highways and ports in many areas range from primitive to nonexistent, and shipping is in short supply. "To intensify trade," says Ecuador's National Planner Raul Paez Calle, "we must have an infrastructure of communications, transport, power supply and, perhaps more important, a human infrastructure...
Masters & Men. The tone was set at the first stop in Caracas, Venezuela. Stepping from his French-made Caravelle jetliner, boarded in Guadeloupe after his crossing in a Boeing 707, De Gaulle shook hands with President Raul Leoni and was whisked into downtown Caracas. Some 60,000 people packed the sidewalks, holding small French and Venezuelan flags as De Gaulle stood nodding and smiling, acknowledging the vivas. Taking no chances of an untoward incident, either by Venezuela's pro-Communist terrorists or the handful of vengeful French exiles in Latin America, the government posted 20,000 troops, police...
...year term last year, the rumbles were as loud as an Andean avalanche. Backed by the army, Belaúnde scraped into power with a bare 39% of the vote, and ranged against him were two men capable of destroying his fragile government-old-time APRA Party Chieftain Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 69, and ex-Dictator Manuel Odría, 66. Both had been candidates against Belaúnde, ripped him as a "demagogue," even tried to pin a Red tag on him when leftists joined his coalition party. Following their defeat, Haya and Odría still...