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===Promoting Castro===
===Promoting Castro===
[[Image:Batista4.gif|right|250px|thumb|Cuban President Fulgencia Batistan (left) welcoming U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] (right). Batista was overtherown by communist revolutionary Fidel Castro.]]
{{QuoteBox|Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba denied today charges of Communist influence in his regime. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors he asserted: "I have said very clearly that we are not Communists...our revolution is a humanistic one".}}In an editorial later, the ''Times'' commented,
{{QuoteBox|Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba denied today charges of Communist influence in his regime. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors he asserted: "I have said very clearly that we are not Communists...our revolution is a humanistic one".}}In an editorial later, the ''Times'' commented,
{{QuoteBox|"He made it quite clear that neither he nor anyone of importance in his Government so far as he knew was Communist or in agreement with communism."}}
{{QuoteBox|"He made it quite clear that neither he nor anyone of importance in his Government so far as he knew was Communist or in agreement with communism."}}
Premier Castro is avoiding elections in Cuba for two reasons. He feels that his social revolution now has dynamism and vast popular consent, and he does not want to interrupt the process. Moreover, most observers would agree that Cubans today do not want elections. The reason is that elections in the past have merely meant to them the coming of corrupt politicians seeking the spoils of power. }}
Premier Castro is avoiding elections in Cuba for two reasons. He feels that his social revolution now has dynamism and vast popular consent, and he does not want to interrupt the process. Moreover, most observers would agree that Cubans today do not want elections. The reason is that elections in the past have merely meant to them the coming of corrupt politicians seeking the spoils of power. }}
On December 2, 1961 Castro announced that he was forming:
{{QuoteBox| a "united party of Cuba's Socialist revolution," a monolithic organization like the Soviet Communist party with restricted membership....[He] acknowledged that he was a Marxist-Leninist and said that he was taking Cuba down the path to communism. He maintained that the world, too, "is on the road toward communism." . . .I am a Marxist-Leninist and will be one until the day I die".}}
Castro added that by 1953, three years before his insurrection in Cuba, his political thinking "was more or less like what it is now."
Herbert L Matthews after his days as a reporter in Havana was n promoted to the editorial board of the ''New York Times.''
===Evil Empire===
===Evil Empire===