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Assembled in the clear, democratic air of San Jose, Costa Rica, the hemisphere foreign ministers last week quickly convicted Dominican Repnblic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of collusion in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt on June 24. The proof (TIME, July 18), gathered by an Organization of American States investigating committee, might have been vulnerable to questions from a tough defense lawyer, but after 30 years of Trujillo's tyranny, no one was in a mood to demand full evidence...
...convention came admiring fraternal delegates from 30 lands, among them top-ranking Red Theoretician Jacques Duclos of France. The Communist newspaper Hoy, which Carlos Rafael Rodríguez edits, chortled happily: "The monstrous version of the Communist with knife between his teeth has completely disappeared in Cuba...
...always opposed ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. In fact, the P.S.P. used to be an enthusiastic supporter of Batista. In return for its help in the 1940 election, Batista legalized the party, let it take control of Cuba's labor organizations, and brought Red Chiefs Juan Marinello and Carlos Rafael Rodríguez into his Cabinet. Back in power after his 1952 coup, Batista declared the party illegal but never cracked down hard on it. Not until five months before Batista fell did the Communists abandon their scornful attitude toward the "bourgeois romantic," Rebel Castro, and proffer a united front...
...Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's retreat, by taking him out of stage center, left him less vulnerable to the growing pressures against him. They are: certain censure at the midmonth meeting of the Organization of American States for his attempted assassination of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Washington's feeling that he is an embarrassing anachronism, disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church and opposition from the formerly tame middle and upper classes. If necessary, he can retreat further to the safety of the U.N. corridors in Manhattan. If at that point prudence indicates that the chief...
Battle to Breathe. Che's father, Architect Ernesto Rafael Guevara Lynch, also sees some humor in the fact of his son's control of fiscal Cuba. Sitting recently in his Buenos Aires office, the elder Guevara chuckled that "nobody was more surprised than I when I heard my son was managing the Cuban economy. Any business we Guevaras put money into has always been a failure...