Word: strongmen
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...rebel leader says, "If I lose, I'll try again and again and again. If Bastista loses, he's through." There is a good deal of truth in Castro's statement; the tide has recently been running against strongmen in Latin America. Batista may defeat Castro now and perhaps again later, but he is bound to be deposed eventually...
Despite Castro's lack of success, however, Batista is in an unenviable position. Strongmen who die in bed usually do so in exile. If he is smart, Batista would like very much to retire again as he did in 1944; he is once again rich. He is not running in the general election scheduled for November 30, and the Batista-supported candidate--Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero--has been campaigning as a "great compromiser," promising political amnesty for rebels. Rivero may be sincere; if he is, Castro and his men are wasting their time, for Batista will be giving constitutional...
...Leavenworth. The garage doors open automatically, and Ramfis disappears after classes behind shades that are always drawn. Outside, a six-man crew of private detectives watches the house and patrols nearby streets. Back home in Ciudad Trujillo, Dictator Rafael Trujillo Sr., last of Latin America's undisputed strongmen, could be reasonably certain that his heir was both safe and comfortable...
Larrazabal's difficulties in forming even this first, most temporary kind of government gave a strong hint of greater troubles to come. Since its beginning in 1830, Venezuela has been controlled by a long line of strongmen. To make the possibility of civilian government even more remote, Pérez Jiménez and his police saw to it that threatening political organizations were flattened as soon as they appeared, and their leaders jailed, exiled or gunned down...
...full-fledged strongmen are left. Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, 57, who took power in a comeback coup when it became obvious that he could not win the 1952 election, is insecure in the saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...