Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere, a puppet President was expected to join in the chorus. But Urrutia, a slow-moving former city judge, has a stubborn streak of independence. (He caught Castro's eye and got elevated to the presidency because he once defied Batista and declared from the bench that Cubans have the right to rebel against tyranny.) Even while Diaz Lanz was testifying in Washington, Urrutia called a television press conference and said: "I reject the support of the Communists, and I believe that any real Cuban revolutionary should reject it openly...
...Most Cubans were still convinced that Castro is not the Communist that his old friend, Díaz Lanz. says he is. But by outlawing anti-Communism in Cuba, he had proved that, willingly or not, he is the Reds' best tool in Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...
Havana, recruits are herded into the post movie theater (named after Charlie Chaplin) to see Redline films. La Cabana men are told in the booklet. Objectives and Problems of the Cuban Revolution, that "the large North American companies continually used [the old Cuban army] to smother the protests of Cuban workers." At Camp Libertad the Economic Bulletin teaches troops that "the socialist system, the most advanced known, eliminates exploitation...
...marathon TV interviews (five hours, from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.), Castro resumed his attacks on the U.S., saying, "International interests want to crush the Cuban revolution, which is an example for the rest of Latin America." He waved the specter of class war, warning that he has summoned half a million peasants "with their machetes" to Havana on July 26. The picture that came off the screen was that of a fanatic heading for a leftist dictatorship...
...economic effect of Fidel Castro's promises has been to worsen the plight of the Cuban people...