- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction A Puzzling Matter
- 1 Dependencies: Batista, Castro, and the United States
- 2 Confusionist Cubanism: The Political Mess Before Granma
- 3 Sugar, North Amencan Business, and Other Bittersweets
- 4 Curve Baus, Casinos, and Cuban-Amencan Culture
- 5 Supplying Repression: Military, CIA, and FBI Links
- 6 <i>Thunderstorms: Castro’s</i> Granma <i>Rebels and the Matthews Interview</i>
- 7 Ambassador Gardner and the Propaganda War
- 8 Violence Victorious: Ambassador Smith Meets the Rebellion
- 9 Expanding Contact with the Rebeh
- 10 Taking Sides: Arms, Arrests, and Elections
- 11 Batista s Self-destruction and the Suspension of Arms
- 12 Terrible Mood: Castro and the General Strike
- 13 <i>Operation</i> Fin de Fidel <i>and U.S. Weapons: Anti-Americanism Ascendant</i>
- 14 Rocket Heads, Kidnappers, and the Castros
- 15 Frankenstein, Texaco, Nicaro, and a Toughened Attitude
- 16 Burning Up the Wires: The Quest for Communists and Arms
- 17 A Pox on Both Their Houses
- 18 Batista Dismissed: Pawley’s Plot and Smith’s Blow
- 19 U.S. Third-Force Conspiracies and Batista's Flight
- 20 Madhouse: Castro s Victory, Smith s Defeat
- 21 A Complete Break: How Did the United States Let This One Get Away?
- 22 Failing the Tests: The United States and Cuba in the Castro Era
- Unpublished Personal Papers and Records
- Index
Terrible Mood: Castro and the General Strike
Terrible Mood: Castro and the General Strike
- Chapter:
- (p.139) 12 Terrible Mood: Castro and the General Strike
- Source:
- Contesting Castro
- Author(s):
Thomas G. Paterson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Tensions increased in Cuba in late March and early April of that year; everybody prepared themselves for a violent showdown. Larger numbers of Latin American, European, and U.S. reporters roamed around the island, witnessing first hand police and rebel violence. Batista prepared his troops for a rebel-developed general strike. His troops chased dissidents of types, killing M-26-7 suspects on the spot. Rebel units also destroyed Oriente Province, battling with Cuban forces, stopping traffic. The U.S. Embassy initiated the early phases of evacuation plan for its citizens.
Keywords: Cuba, Castro, Batista, M-26-7, Oriente Province, U.S. Embassy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction A Puzzling Matter
- 1 Dependencies: Batista, Castro, and the United States
- 2 Confusionist Cubanism: The Political Mess Before Granma
- 3 Sugar, North Amencan Business, and Other Bittersweets
- 4 Curve Baus, Casinos, and Cuban-Amencan Culture
- 5 Supplying Repression: Military, CIA, and FBI Links
- 6 <i>Thunderstorms: Castro’s</i> Granma <i>Rebels and the Matthews Interview</i>
- 7 Ambassador Gardner and the Propaganda War
- 8 Violence Victorious: Ambassador Smith Meets the Rebellion
- 9 Expanding Contact with the Rebeh
- 10 Taking Sides: Arms, Arrests, and Elections
- 11 Batista s Self-destruction and the Suspension of Arms
- 12 Terrible Mood: Castro and the General Strike
- 13 <i>Operation</i> Fin de Fidel <i>and U.S. Weapons: Anti-Americanism Ascendant</i>
- 14 Rocket Heads, Kidnappers, and the Castros
- 15 Frankenstein, Texaco, Nicaro, and a Toughened Attitude
- 16 Burning Up the Wires: The Quest for Communists and Arms
- 17 A Pox on Both Their Houses
- 18 Batista Dismissed: Pawley’s Plot and Smith’s Blow
- 19 U.S. Third-Force Conspiracies and Batista's Flight
- 20 Madhouse: Castro s Victory, Smith s Defeat
- 21 A Complete Break: How Did the United States Let This One Get Away?
- 22 Failing the Tests: The United States and Cuba in the Castro Era
- Unpublished Personal Papers and Records
- Index
