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Meanwhile, the regimes of Kim, Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping lived on in relative silence. Kim's death might have been expected to throw his nation into furor. The problem with that theory is simply that he and his government had been planning for the event for years. The ascension of Kim II Sung's son, 52-year-old Kim Jong Il, has been a foregone conclusion for years...
Liem it seems could offer lessons even to a seasoned professional like Fidel Castro...
...real Hispanic--bringing up the disturbing possibility that about half the Spanish-speaking community in this country, including the parents of most Latino students, are not "Latino." Gabriel Garcia Marquez is not Latino. Neither is Carlos Fuentes, Rigoberta Menchu, Carlos Salinas de Gotari, Juan Carlos, Fidel Castro, or Guillermo Cabrera Infante...
...right. And four days after our flight, in the safety of Miami's Catholic Relief Services office, we finally meet our rescuees. Their faces are still sunburned, their hands still blistered from rowing. One is a bright-eyed 37-year-old plumber by the name of Sergio Fidel Castro Hernandez. He and five friends had slipped away after dark from a Havana beach in their little vessel made of six bus tires. For two days, they rowed and drifted in the Gulf Stream without food or water. On the second day, shortly before the rescue, they spotted another group...
...When Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping die, Communism's last major scions will be gone. No successor in either Cuba or China has the same personal sway these two rulers have wielded. In China, by far the more important of the two nations, Communism appears to have devolved into a heavily regulated, semi-legal form of capitalism. Only North Korea, whose development program for nuclear weapons makes the news every week, can take the role of menacing outpost of Communism. Still, more nations than the United States would want to have a hand in the quelling of a belligerent nuclear...