Fidelism
(fɪˈdɛlɪz(ə)m)
[ad. Sp. Fidelismo (also used), f. the name of Fidel Castro Ruz (b. 1927), Cuban politician + -ism.]
The methods and policies of Fidel Castro's political administration in Cuba; = Castroism. Hence Fiˈdelist a., of or pertaining to Fidel Castro or to Fidelism; ‖ Fidelista (fideˈlista), an adherent of Fidel Castro; also attrib.
| 1959 Washington Post 24 Nov. A 14/1 Fidelismo has become revolution for revolution's sake. 1960 Business Week 3 Dec. 87 ‘Fidelism’, or ‘Fidelismo’, as the Latin Americans call it..is the Castro-style revolution that's followed by a left-wing, Communist-influenced, perhaps Communist-controlled, government. Ibid., The Fidelistas and Communists. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 211 This was fertile ground for ‘Fidelismo’. 1961 Economist 25 Nov. 723/2 An attempted return to dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, and the chance of a fidelist uprising that might have followed it. 1962 Listener 1 Feb. 206/1 Fidelista cells began to be formed in the cities, in the universities, in the sugar mills. 1968 Guardian 1 Oct. 8/4 That generation is now trying out various kinds of Trotskyism, Maoism, and Fidelism. 1970 ‘J. Morris’ Candywine Devel. xviii. 212 It may be..the local Fidelistas. 1971 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Jan. 6/4 ‘El Che’ was not Castro's brain, but he was the Fidelista conscience. |