Word: rojo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami are king"); another, in staid Old San Juan, was discreetly latinized to El Gallo Rojo. This year there are Sunday bullfights in the Sixto Escobar Stadium-but no blood, as a concession to sensitive American tastes...
...Captain Manuel Rojo del Rio, an old fighting comrade of Castro who lately has borne the title of Cuba's paratroop commander, defected while on a visit to Costa Rica. Of Castro he said: "There is something in his eyes that frightens even the bravest man. They reflect madness." Rojo called Fidel's brother. Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, a "vindictive jelly bean" with a "resentment against the masculine type of man," and said that "all .his aides are Communists...