Word: rivero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force, lacking big aircraft carriers, would be no match for the Sixth Fleet, with its 50 combat ships, including two carriers and two cruisers, 200 aircraft and 25,000 men. The Russian squadron in the Mediterranean is, in fact, smaller than the Italian navy. But as U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero, commander of NATO forces in Southern Europe, notes: "While the Soviet flotilla is a potential military threat, its greatest importance is political and psychological. The number of ships is not too important. The presence of one ship has a political impact...
...packet, tightly folded so as to resist the wind. About 5.000 copies of the two-color, 20-24 page tabloid are sold in Miami; 2,500 go to Cuba by parachute and other means as the gift of Editor José Ignacio Rivero and the twelve-man staff who fled for their lives when the paper was taken over last May. Regarded as the unofficial spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba, Diario still has the most powerful potential influence of the anti-Castro press...
...months Diario and Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero, 39, had been living on borrowed time as they blasted Castro's arbitrary rent reductions, his agrarian farm laws ("Hundreds of people have had their property taken away without compensation"), his flirtation with Communism. Boldly the newspaper spoke out for "democratic normalcy and the law. Is this a crime? Is it immoral? Are there not a lot of Cuban people who want the same?" Castro tolerated such impudence only because Diario was considered the unofficial spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba and because it furnished proof to "Yankee imperialists" that...
...stand, Diario paid dearly. Over the months, Castro mobs had burned bundles of the paper in the streets, and Editor Rivero, fearful for his life, went into hiding, stayed in the homes of friends all over the city. When word reached Castro last week that Diario planned an editorial calling for free elections, the Premier's patience snapped and the seizure order went out. In its first editorial statement, the new management of the paper justified the takeover, said that under Rivero, Diario had "attacked all that signifies truth, justice, patriotism and decency in our Cuba...