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...Maestra, recalling the famous mountain redoubt where the revolution was born almost 40 years ago. Few are allowed to penetrate to the heart of the last socialist bastion in the western hemisphere, one of a handful of communist regimes struggling to ride out the 20th century. Here is where Fidel Castro secretly pulls the strings guiding his country. And where he still pursues with unswerving dedication the same sacred mission he began decades ago: preservation of the revolution...
...imagine Fidel Castro there one day sometime in 1995. He is wrestling with complex, politically dangerous solutions to the crushing failure of his Marxist economy, but at last his nation is beginning to emerge, inch by painful inch, from the darkest years of the "special period," when the world predicted that his country and his government would collapse, just as did that of the Soviet Union. He decides one salve to the trauma is to go ahead with an idea that has intrigued him for some time: a visit by Pope John Paul...
...Threat From Fidel More Imagined Than Real? As Il Papa prepares to play 'Our Pontiff in Havana', the Pentagon reluctantly reports that Castro has chemical and biological weapons capability. The Pope and El Jefe meet in Cuba. The story on what brought them together in our TIME Cover: Clash of Faiths
...Threat From Fidel More Imagined Than Real? As Il Papa prepares to play 'Our Pontiff in Havana', the Pentagon reluctantly readies to issue a report showing that Castro sits 90 miles from Florida with chemical and biological weapons capability. The military doesn't believe it's much of a treat, but the news will give strong ammo to hardliners on Cuba...
...Daily Spin "Are you priests? Confessors? Those are my intimate affairs, and I don't accept that you have me make that kind of public confession." ? Fidel Castro, on the eve of the Pope's visit, after reporters asked him whether he believes...