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...Bush Administration has long argued that Chavez is a would-be dictator in the mold of Fidel Castro and a threat to hemispheric stability. But if Chavez can use his combination of financial clout and pan-Latin charisma to keep the Puerto Iguazu parties united, it would undoubtedly help raise his standing from an anti-U.S. firebrand to the sort of regional coalition-builder Latin America has never had. Alex Main, a former international relations advisor to Chavez, concurs: "This is the first time we've seen a real challenge to the unity of the new Latin American left...
...started working in rural Haiti as a medical student in 1983. Last year, he was named as one of America’s 25 Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report for his work to bring medical attention and care to those who would otherwise receive nothing. Javier J. Castro ’09, a member of the Harvard AIDS Coalition, said he wasn’t surprised by the high turnout at the event. “He’s a celebrity, so wherever he goes he attracts attention,” Castro said...
...know that the strategy of those young, anti-Castro dissidents is exactly what we ought to be applauding, not just in the United States but especially here at Harvard, from Lavietes Pavilion to Harvard Stadium...
When Fidel Castro seized control of Cuba in 1959, who would have guessed that one of the items high on his agenda would be launching a national ballet company? Yet the idea fit right in with his revolutionary goal of bringing art to the masses. Castro asked Cuba's prima ballerina, Alicia Alonso, and her dancer husband Fernando how much they would need to make it happen. They said $100,000. Castro gave them $200,000. The investment has been paying off ever since...
...boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Bjart dancer Vctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Coln in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided over by the indomitable Alonso...