Cuba: The Underground Surfaces

All week long, torrential rains pounded down onCuba, endangering the vital sugar harvest already delayed by invasionand subsequent repression. Out went the orders from Castro’s puppetPresident Osvaldo Dorticós: “Mill workers must voluntarily increasetheir workday to twelve hours.” And with the crop crisis came the firstrumbles of a reviving anti-Castro underground. A $300,000 sugar millwas burned, a bomb wounded a hated Castro military prosecutor, aphosphorous bomb fired a cinema. Havana radio blamed Exile Manolo Ray,who replied that his leftist, but bitterly anti-Communist M.R.P.underground is ready with more of the same. But there is also abrand-new anti-Castro movement operating inside Cuba. It is a union ofsix organizations that tired of the constant bickering of their exiledleadership in the U.S. Travelers from Cuba reported thousands of newarrests.