Word: urrutia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels held more than 2,000 captives. Urrutia declared that they would be tried by revolutionary courts "in the same manner as war criminals were tried in Germany." About 300 others, Batista supporters, including the former boss of organized labor, Eusebio Mujal, crowded into Havana embassies. Urrutia said that Cuba would respect political asylum and allow the refugees to leave...
...professedly democratic rebel movement gave elections a low priority-18 months from now, or perhaps two years. Urrutia vowed that rampant prostitution, a symbol of Batista corruption, would be wiped out. When warned that this might hurt tourism, he answered that Cuba will attract U.S. visitors "by more decent means-sports, for instance." Castro said that the gambling casinos would be reopened, for tourists only, and "the profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension...
...Urrutia's Cabinet seemed respectable, well meaning, weak on government experience. Prime Minister José Miró Cardona, 56, is dean of the Havana Bar Association. Commerce Minister Raúl Cepero Bonilla, 37. set his goal as "an efficient organization, but above all an honest one." Public Works Minister Manuel Ray Rivero. 34, an engineer, was the dapper boss of the Havana rebel underground. He has the most urgent job of all: repairing the shattered roads and bridges to move the $700 million sugar harvest, which starts this month...
...recent rapid recognition by the United States of the infant Cuban government of Manuel Urrutia gives rise to an interesting if hypothetical problem...
Given this situation, would the United States have recognized Urrutia's government? If not, how would the Administration have justified the support of a dictator who obviously lacked the support of his countrymen? If recognition had been extended, what would have been the essential difference between this situation and a similar one now in effect in the East China Sea? James R. Fisher...