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...Fidel Castro, Cuba...
Armando Valladares, who spent close to 20 years in jail for opposing the regime of Fidel Castro, will give a personal account of his life as a political prisoner. Valladares, who has also written an international best-seller about his experiences, now serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission...
President Fidel Castro denounced the broadcasts as "subversive" and a violation of Cuban sovereignty. But rather than jamming TV Marti, his best revenge might be to broadcast his own long-winded speeches into the U.S. A recent blast from Cuba was heard on radios as far away as Nashville...
...then an angry man joined the revelers. Julio Gonzalez, 36, one of Fidel Castro's cast-off gifts to the U.S. in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, came to plead with his estranged girlfriend, Lydia Feliciano, 45. She earned $150 a night checking coats and taking tickets ($5 each) at the club. Gonzalez had lived with Feliciano for eight apparently calm years. But in February he lost his job as a warehouseman. Then the two quarreled bitterly, reportedly over his fondness for her niece, and she ordered him to leave her apartment. Now living in a tiny room and hustling...
President Fidel Castro has not visited Brazil since 1959, the year he installed himself as Cuba's supremo. So when Castro announced that he would attend last week's inauguration of Brazil's new President, Fernando Collor de Mello, authorities there were not sure what to expect: certainly a Cuban security detachment, perhaps even a few small arms...