Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guns and tried to force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province, where the government had earlier reported a complete cleanout of the Sierra Escambray rebel bands, militia and artillery moved into the hills for a new assault on the freedom fighters' stronghold...
...couple of hundred miles away in the Sierra Escambray, Dr. Manuel Fajardo, 29, Castro's close friend and personal physician, who was also commander of the local militia, intercepted two boys heading into hills that still hide some 300 oppositionists. Dr. Fajardo opened fire and was shot dead in the fight. Fidel Castro gave Fajardo the revolutionary version of a Chicago-style funeral, and bitterly blamed "the bandits of the Pentagon." Meanwhile, in Peking, "Che" Guevara got for Cuba's bare-larder economy the biggest foreign loan Red China ever made-$60 million for five years...
...Communist propaganda (one-third of the "relief" Cuba sent after the earthquakes last May turned out to be revolutionary pamphlets). The leader of Chile's main labor confederation, orating over the coffins of two men killed in labor violence three weeks ago, threatened that Santiago would become "the Sierra Maestra" of Chile...
...went on trial before an army tribunal. The next morning Zarba and seven men were dead, gunned down on an army rifle range near San Juan Hill. The remaining 13 drew prison terms up to 30 years. In Santa Clara another 200 rebels, rounded up in the Sierra Escambray, got an equally swift trial: less than five minutes per man. Verdicts: death for five, jail terms up to 30 years for most of the rest. At week's end two more U.S. survivors of the Oriente landing were captured...
...affair had its comic aspect; yet it was one more evidence of Castro's growing troubles. Some 315 miles to the west, in the Sierra Escambray, small groups of oppositionists have joined in a nettlesome guerrilla force estimated at 400 to 1,000 fighting men. Castro has sent 10,000 to 15,000 militia to surround the rebels, who apparently are getting weapons by air. Last week the Cubans were getting so nervous that they forced down a Nicaraguan cargo plane, grilled the pilots for eight hours...