Word: villanueva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told them, 'I am a carpenter, not a politician.'" said Dominguez last week after sailing to Florida with 16 others. A second refugee, Day Laborer Gabino Mendiola, 39, confirmed the story: "If you do not join the militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price. You have nothing left with which to eat." One haggard mother recently landed at Key West in a small sailboat with...
...hills to plead with Batista's executioners to spare the life of a young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University, and 100 Jesuit priests. Supporting Castro were a score of liberal-minded Franciscan fathers, mostly Basque refugees from Franco's Spain...
Last week Monsignor Boza Masvidal, as head of Villanueva University, expelled 17 pro-Castro students for signing a letter claiming that Boza was preparing a plot to close the university, then blame the government. Government agents surrounded Villanueva, searched everyone entering or leaving, including the bishop himself. But this time the church showed no signs of yielding...
Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of the Catholic University of Villanueva, has been speaking out against the Red threat for a year. But a Havana priest named Moisés Arrechea recently went on television to say that the "humanism" which Castro espouses is "the work of God himself." Last week, when Castro labor goons followed up the seizure of the pro-Catholic daily Diario de la Marina by grabbing the independent Prensa Libre, Cuba's largest newspaper, Father Guillermo Sardinas rushed to the paper's office to give his congratulations. Said Sardinas, who is chief chaplain...