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WERNER RUBENS Santiago, Chile...
President Fulgencio Batista last week lifted press censorship and restored constitutional guarantees that were suspended after the crushing of last July's bloody Santiago revolt. The news was welcome in Cuba, and might have been greeted even more enthusiastically if Batista had not put through a tough "Law of Public Order" during the state of emergency (TIME, Aug. 17). That law remains on the books, and if its penalties for any Cuban who "spreads, publishes, has published or transmits false rumors . . . against the nation's dignity [and] the credit of the nation or the government" are rigorously applied...
President Fulgencio Batista was a worried strongman last week. While he was awarding regatta prizes at Varadero Beach, a band of less than 200 uniformed men attacked the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...middle: 73 for the government of President Carlos Ibafiez, 73 for the combined opposition. The. first by-election would obviously give one side a slender advantage. Last week it fell to the village (pop. 100) of Coihueco, at the foot of the snowy Andes 250 miles south of Santiago, to pick one more Deputy for Congress...
Matta has covered a lot of ground since he first started painting 15 years ago. Born and brought up in Santiago, he went to Paris in the '30s, where he studied architecture under Le Corbusier. He got no architectural commissions, soon switched to painting. His first paintings went back to the beginning of time: flames, stars and rocks, all gleaming in primordial darkness. When he first introduced human life, he painted men that were half lobster, half electric chair, tormenting each other. "We are all monsters," Matta says, with absolute conviction. But the new subject...