Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Cuba: Can't Anyone Here Play This Game?
Fidel Castro must have laughed till he split his fatigues. Incredibly, disastrously, Manolo Ray, the Cuban freedom fighter who had promised to be operating inside Cuba by May 20, was exposed as a bungling amateur. Worse, Fidel did not have to lift a finger. The British, with an assist from the U.S. Coast Guard, put the damper on what was surely the most ludicrous act yet in the endless, tragicomic opera of anti-Castro moves.
Five days before the May 20 deadline, the exile leader had quit his job in Puerto Rico and dropped out of sight. For two weeks, nothing...
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