Word: zaro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went for the international Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba that planned to convene in Brazil last week. All of Fidel's overseas friends were expected: Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Russian Author Vanda Vasilevskaya, Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, British Guiana's Janet Jagan, and a couple hundred more. Castro planned to send a large delegation; placards were printed and street demonstrations planned to take place in São Paulo and Rio. The organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign...
...Mexico, Brazilian diplomats called on influential Mexican authorities to convince them that it would be a good idea to keep Lázaro Cárdenas at home. Brazil's embassy in Mexico City then announced that a new rubber stamp was needed to validate tourist cards-and apologized to waiting Mexican and Cuban delegations that the stamp had not yet arrived from Brazil. It never...
...ZARO PEÑA, 61, Secretary General of the Cuban Labor Confederation (C.T.C.). A mulatto tobacco worker who was born in Havana and joined the Communist Party in 1930, Peña called a Havana convention of workers' organizations from all over Cuba in 1939 to form the C.T.C. For eight uninterrupted years, Peña and his fellow Communists controlled the confederation. But in 1947 anti-Communist Labor Minister Carlos Prío Socorrás began a campaign to oust Peña and his fellow Reds from control of Cuba's labor movement...
...original invasion of Cuba, is the nation still most dedicated to Castro's cause, and though President López Mateos, a middle-of-the-roader, might have reservations, he is held back by the re-emergence of Mexico's most powerful politico, former President Lázaro Cárdenas, 65, now a Stalin Prize-winning fellow traveler, who is whipping up pro-Castro demonstrations...
...Just when Prohibition gripped the U.S., Jenkins plunged into the sugar and alcohol business. Sometimes he bought in his own name, other times in cooperation with such men as Maximino Avila Camacho, the brother of onetime (1940-46) President Manuel Avila Camacho. When the great expropriator, President Lázaro Cárdenas, began casting covetous eyes at some of Jenkins' sugar land in the late 1930s, Jenkins shrewdly gave the land to Cÿrdenas as a gift. Later Jenkins told a friend, "I came out on top. I still get my sugar from the same land because...