Word: dictatorship
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...this year, unlike last, Cuba's revolutionaries have very little to congratulate themselves about. The regime still stands -a well-armed dictatorship is not easily overthrown, as the Bay of Pigs fiasco demonstrated. Yet it is a leadership in disarray, increasingly ostracized by its hemispheric neighbors, beset by economic catastrophe and torn by a bitter, not yet settled internal struggle for power...
...Castro was the first to reach Havana" related Figueres, but several Latin American groups had cooperated to overthrow the Batista dictatorship. The Costa Rican had been an active leader among these and came to Havana in March 1959 as an honored guest of the new regime...
...when the embattled government of President Camille Chamoun called on U.S. Marines, made a pointed visit to Frondizi. As the wires hummed between Buenos Aires and Washington, McClintock let it be known that Argentina could expect no aid from the U.S. if the military imposed a new dictatorship on Argentina. "The objective," as one State Department officer put it, "is to preserve even the thinnest skin over this skeleton of legalism rather than see it destroyed and the military rule...
Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...
Citing Cuba as an example, he criticized some of the United States' past policies, because "Every time you have a dictatorship friendly to America, we cut the legs out from under...