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Seldom had a government been so thoroughly housecleaned between midnight and dawn. But to Castro, flushed with victory, the exodus was a bitter cheat. Arriving in Santiago, he took the big (5,000-man) Moncada fortress from the surrendering army without firing a shot, declared Santiago the provisional capital of Cuba as reward for its support. In Las Villas, ruthless, Red-loving Che Guevara executed the last Batista holdouts...
...Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were reports that Batista's big Santiago garrison, recently reinforced with 2,000 fresh troops flown in, had twice attempted to break through the rebel ring only to fail. The government still talked of an "all-out offensive"; the talk lost much of its steam when the Santiago commander bought up every foot of barbed wire in town...
...losers in the spreading war are Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
Died. Jose Maria Cardinal Caro Rodriguez, 92, Chilean Archbishop of Santiago, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Santiago...
Business in rebel country is nearly dead. The 'Esso distributor in Santiago, who used to sell 2,000,000 gal. of gas monthly, now sells 250,000; the Pepsi-Cola, Coca Cola and Canada Dry plants operate only two or three days a month. Bacardi Rum's main plant, which used to produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight...