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Hostile to the peasant and devoted to centralized authority, the Communist bureaucracy under Stalin sent out imperious orders telling the farmers when and what to plant, when and where to reap. Farm machinery, trucks, tractors, fertilizers and even seed were controlled by bureaus in Moscow that drove farmers to frenzy with missed deadlines and frustrating delays. When Khrushchev took over, he broke up the tractor stations and scattered the mechanized farm implements among individual collective farms. A massive effort was made to streamline the system by packing the bureaucrats off to the countryside. As a result, collective farms...
...fated tractor negotiations were at least a reminder of the 1,200 men captured in the disastrous Bay of Pigs landing, but the men are only a tiny fraction of those jammed into jails from one end of Castro's island to the other. After the April attack, some 250,000 political prisoners were herded into jails and makeshift concentration camps. More than 40,000 are still there, waiting and withering in deplorable conditions...
Buenos Aires School of Law and Social Sciences. A left-wing student group invited her to lecture on Yankee imperialism. She had barely opened her mouth before students outside the hall began whistling and catcalling, "Let's swap Che's mother for a tractor!" A tear-gas bomb popped in the auditorium, rocks smashed through windows and doors. The battle raged for more than two hours until a Molotov cocktail set the place afire...
...worth in propaganda value, refused to come down on his latest demands, sent a ten-man prisoner detail back to the U.S. to negotiate some more. He blamed the committee for trying "to confuse North American public opinion and the prisoners' own relatives." By that time, even the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee had had enough. It declined to enter into further negotiations. The sputtering tractor deal coughed and-hopefully-died...
...subsidized imports of oil, wheat and paper-a painful reform long advised by the International Monetary Fund. He welcomed foreign capital with open arms, gave Western Union a contract (over nationalist protests) to set up a new communications system for Brazil, gave Ford the go-ahead for a new tractor plant, while turning down a Czech tractor deal. He spent, too, with caution. When a state governor begged $400,000 for a fisheries project, Quadros promised $80,000. "I was a governor myself, your excellency, and I sympathize. But I don't want to leave here with my wallet...