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Peru's gambit comes at a time when talk of default is in the air. As García took office, 1,200 delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Havana for a debt conference, and Fidel Castro urged his guests to repudiate their obligations. Bankers remain confident, however, that the Latin American countries will not default. Such a drastic strategy would cut them off from international credit, which for some is the only means of paying for vital imports like food and fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defiant Debtor | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...uncharacteristically generous gesture, [Cuban President Fidel] Castro said that any Cuban citizens who wish to pay their respects to the Pope at the Vatican will be given a free raft and a push." --DENNIS MILLER

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Apr. 18, 2005 | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

...been to the Soviet Union several times because of the Goodwill Games. [Mikhail] Gorbachev is my buddy and so is [Fidel] Castro. I've been to Cuba two times. We go hunting and fishing together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...Fidel Castro’s revolutionary goals included literacy in academia and art, and the many art schools have turned it into one of the most artistically “overeducated, undermanifested†populations, Kennedy explains. She continued that these art schools offer classical training which becomes the vocabulary for political dissent...

Author: By Eve Lebwohl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cuban Art Triumphs Despite Oppression | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...works in that vein were fantasies on paper or sets for Sean Connery. Some got built. Ricardo Porro is a Cuban architect who for a while enthusiastically served Fidel Castro but eventually emigrated to Paris. The Mori show includes a slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments Of Wit | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

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