Word: mendieta
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...entitled The Crime of Cuba, he lambasted the then U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim whose family had given Baiter Beals a Guggenheim Fellowship to study imperialism in Mexico. Fact was that last week Journalist Beals had not made up his mind about the present regime of President Carlos Mendieta and Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista...
After 14 months of waiting for Provisional President Carlos Mendieta to turn into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer...
...menaced when the railways stopped. Two open-shop Havana newspapers kept publishing. Soldiers, marines, police and strikebreakers ran a few street cars, the radio, telegraph and the main Havana postoffice, the docks, power plants, water works and tax collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked out, leaving inmates to themselves. Crowed bantam Generalissimo Batista: "This strike is a disgrace to the civilization of Cuba." He sent out his soldiers to scour Havana, sent Army planes swooping over...
...Mendieta seemed near the end of his rope but Cubans had forgotten that in his youth their President was famed for his violent temper and his willingness to fight with his fists, a practice always impressive to Latins. Abruptly last week the hard-pressed President declared a dictatorship far more absolute than anything of Tyrant Machado's. Most sacred of Cuban fetishes is the autonomy of Havana University but President Mendieta had the University seized by soldiers, who found vast stores of ammunition and a few stolen cars on the campus. He announced that all Government employes...
...Havana the crashing of rifle fire and bombs kept citizens indoors behind closed shutters. U. S. businessmen were astonished to get anonymous warnings to "close up and leave the country within three days." His dander up, Mendieta declared first a "state of siege," then a "state of war," then he declared all the striking labor unions dissolved. Said he: "I have the duty of my post to complete: first, because I am the President of the Republic; second, because I am Carlos Mendieta; and, third, because I am a leader- a fact I have never wanted to make...