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...death of many Cubans [Aug. 21]. Your portrait describes a man who "has always respected the family" and who "seems comfortable with who he is." What about the families of those who have died or who continue to suffer imprisonment for their political or religious beliefs in Cuba? There is no need to present the Castros in soft focus as your reporter did. They should be judged by the standards to which political leaders should adhere: respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of just law. On all these counts, Raúl Castro falls short. Jeremy Lefroy Staffordshire...
...could not rule out the risk of somebody going crazy--or even crazier--within the U.S. government." RAUL CASTRO, Defense Minister and acting President of Cuba, on why he mobilized tens of thousands of troops shortly after the illness of his brother Fidel was announced three weeks...
...first time I met Raúl Castro, in 1972, I confess that I did not pay any attention to him at all. I was visiting revolutionary Cuba with a group of young "internationalists"; I was green and wanted to change the world. Fidel was the one that I wanted to see. First I met Vilma Espín, who had joined the revolution before marrying Raúl. That she was from a well-to-do family and had thrown away everything for the cause made her a dashing character in my eyes. She was then and remains today head of Cuba's Women...
...next time I visited Cuba was in 1983 as a journalist. Attending a social gathering, I saw Raúl and Vilma again. At first sight, Raúl, wearing his green fatigues, seemed serious and stern as he went through the official greetings required of him. But later I saw him talking to people and laughing. That is when I realized how different he seemed from my first impression. You could see how he was enjoying the jokes and the bantering. He intrigued...
...always respected the family. Even though he is the fifth of seven children and the third and youngest male (Ramón, 81 and an agricultural adviser, is older than Fidel), Raúl has always been the clan's peacekeeper. When Fidel in the 1960s expropriated Cuba's ranches, including his family compound in Birán, where his mother Lina Ruz still lived, she met the revolutionaries at the door with a Winchester rifle, which she knew how to use. It was Raúl who convinced her of the merits of the reform. Lina continued to live on the compound after the state...