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...Fidel Castro, 81, had been Cuba's leader since 1959, when his socialist movement overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista. (See story, page...
Rałl Castro is a master of mixed signals. Cuba's interim President recently agreed to allow representatives from the United Nations Human Rights Council to visit the island next year to inspect its notorious prisons and address its dearth of free expression. It was a concession Fidel Castro had long sneered at, and to many it was a sign that Raśl, who has ruled Cuba since major intestinal surgery sidelined his elder brother in 2006, might be willing to break with family tradition. But even as Raśl reached out to the U.N., his state security agents were arresting...
...Raśl Castro a reformer or a reactionary? Now that Fidel, 81, has officially resigned as President, leaving Raśl, 76, to most likely be named his successor, that question has gained greater significance than ever--in Havana, Miami and Washington. The elder Castro's exit barely registered in those cities; a half-century after he arrived on the world stage with a bang, Fidel left with a whimper. There was no overwhelming sense of sorrow in Cuba nor exultation across the Straits of Florida. There was only a collective shrug. "It's O.K.," said Yanelis, a young Cuban woman in Marianao...
...private encounters, is a sign that Bertone has big ambitions for the trip. His official itinerary includes a meeting with Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, but Vatican sources say that a meeting with Raul Castro, the heir apparent to his older brother, is almost certain. Depending on his health, Fidel Castro may also meet with the Cardinal. The two dined together in Havana in Oct. 2005 when Bertone, then Archbishop of Genoa, was sent as an unofficial emissary from the newly elected Pope Benedict...
...interview Tuesday with the Italian Catholic daily Avvenire, Bertone recalled his lengthy dinner with the Jesuit-educated Fidel. "It was a very long conversation. We spoke of many things, of hunger and of poverty spread through the world, and the need of a greater solidarity among people and governments. We spoke of wars and progress." Bertone said that Castro spoke highly of Benedict. "'I like this Pope,' he told me, 'He is a good person. I have understood that immediately seeing his face, the face of an angel...