Word: socialista
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July Movement could have "scored an overwhelming victory over the Communists." It failed to do so because Castro appeared unexpectedly and intervened on behalf of the Communists. By 1960 the Confederation of Labor was completely controlled by Communists. In early February, 1960, the President of the PSP (Partido Socialista Popular) publically equated anti-Communism and treason. The same month Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan signed the first Soviet-Cuban agreement in Havana, "amidst an official reception that betokened more than trade relations...
...flossiest hotels. Silent knots of Iron Curtain technicians, gun-toting militiamen, and bewildered peasants brought to Havana for Marxist orientation have replaced the thronging tourists who once filled their lobbies. Nightclubs like the Tropicana-still ballyhooed as the world's biggest-continue to operate, but with a Cuba socialista beat, and the leggy pony chorus now does Russian folk dances. The great restaurants have two choices on the menu -half-dollar-sized steak (at $6 a crack) and spaghetti; on the street, the hamburger stands serve watery bean soup...
FABIO GROBART, age unknown, a director of the policy-setting magazine Cuba Socialista and the Kremlin's shadowy man-in-the-Caribbean for almost 40 years. Born in eastern Europe-probably Poland-Grobart earned a reputation in the Cuban Communist Party as a stern disciplinarian,:' and in the tradition of such hard-top Reds, liked to be seen passing out candy to children, inquiring solicitously about the health of party members' families. Perhaps Grobart's most important assignment: the establishment in the middle 1940s of a second Communist apparatus-removed from the official party-in case...