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Word: regino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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This kind of mess naturally calls for scapegoats. A few weeks ago, Fidel "liberated" his Economy Minister and overall economic planner. The unlucky companero was Regino Boti, 43, a Marxist convert who once served on the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America. Boti's new assignment: a condensed-milk plant in Oriente province, where he will oversee 200 to 300 em ployees. The No. 1 man now in control of Cuba's economy seems to be Minister of Industries Che Guevara, 36, who has long been Fidel's all-round handyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Big Eyes, Small Pocketbook | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...Bristol Britannia with the Cubana Airlines markings bobbed to a halt on the runway of Ottawa's Uplands Airport, and out stepped ten Cubans who had flown nonstop from Havana. At their head stood Regino Botí, Fidel Castro's U.S.-hating Minister of Economy. They had come to Canada, proclaimed Botí, with $150 million "to find out what we can purchase." His face abeam, Trade Minister George Hees told newsmen: "You can't do business with better businessmen anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Of Trade & Nationalism | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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