Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miami's Cuban exile community lives on hope-and stories from home. For six months the rumors have swirled around the mysterious disappearance of Che Guevara, 37, long the most important figure next to Castro in Cuba's Communist hierarchy (TIME, June 25). Last week the Che story receded into the background before a whole new crop of tales whispering of sabotage and assassination attempts inside Cuba. Some were open to question; others were at least partly based on fact. Either way, they all hinted at growing unrest on Castro's troubled island...
Ramiro Valdés, Castro's Minister of Interior, suggested as much in a brief radio speech last week. "We must fight," he told Cubans, "against internal espionage, sabotage, acts of terrorism and attempted assassinations." A few weeks ago, according to one report, saboteurs put the torch to two Cuban PT boats in Santiago harbor. Another report tells of a Cuban antiaircraft battery that gunned down a Cuban army transport in the belief that Castro was aboard...
...Cuban plane was indeed shot down last June, but it was an '"accident," according to Havana Radio...
Still other reports tell of an unsuccessful ambush of a Castro motor caravan in Pinar del Rio province, and a bomb planted at a Cuban power plant where Castro was scheduled to talk...
...measure may be only in the interest of public safety. Olive Green, the Cuban army magazine, has complained that Cubans tote around lethal automatic weapons "as if they were adornments," and there has been an appalling number of cases of civilians shooting one another with military firearms. Radio Havana's explanation was some what contradictory: 1) the guns were in bad shape anyway, and 2) the "struggle against our enemies requires a rigorous control of all combat weapons...