Cuba - Fidel Castro
Fidel CastroPresident
(pronounced "fee-DELL KAS-tro")
"As Marxist-Leninists we fight not to create individual millionaires, but to make the citizenry as a...
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Fidel Castro Ruz (born 1926) was Cuban prime minister and first secretary of the Communist party of Cuba. A lawyer by training, Castro led the Cuban Revolution and transformed the island into the firs...
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Fidel Castro was born on a farm in Birán, Cuba, near Mayarí, on August 13, 1926. He received a Jesuit education while attending a boarding school in Havana by the name Colegio de Belen. When...
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SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel
Castro was nominated Sunday for a seat in the National
Assembly, a sign he may not be planning to step down as head of
state despite struggling...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Yoruba gods protect ailing Fidel
Castro from witchcraft and want to see him continue leading
Cuba, the first priest of the Santeria religion to be elected
to parliament said Mon...
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Photographs published in Cuba's party newspaper Saturday showed Fidel Castro meeting and shaking hands with a visiting Chinese Communist Party official, the latest sign the Cuban leader is becoming...
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Havana (dpa) - Ailing Cuban president Fidel Castro has confirmed
that four Cuban athletes defected during the Pan American Games in
Rio de Janeiro, including star boxer Guil...
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Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba is "marching ahead" without him in power, insisting that he is consulted on all important decisions but giving no hint about when _ or if _ he might retake off...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said his close friend and ally Fidel Castro has "almost totally recovered" from his illness and has resumed many of his duties as Cuba's leader.Speaking a...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro
poked fun at President Bush Sunday for proclaiming
"Long Live Free Cuba," likening it to Spain's king saying the
same during his colonial rule o...
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Havana (dpa) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met
with acting Cuban leader Raul Castro on Tuesday in Havana, where both
countries signed financial, pharmaceut...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - It may be a sign of the times:
ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was pipped at the polls by his
brother and designated successor Raul Castro, according to
parliamentary election ...
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Madrid (dpa) - Spain's top anti-terrorism court Thursday rejected
a complaint filed by Cuban dissidents against Cuban President Fidel
Castro and former tourism minister Osma...
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