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...When Fidel Castro seized control of Cuba in 1959, who would have guessed that one of the items high on his agenda would be launching a national ballet company? Yet the idea fit right in with his revolutionary goal of bringing art to the masses. Castro asked Cuba's prima ballerina, Alicia Alonso, and her dancer husband Fernando how much they would need to make it happen. They said $100,000. Castro gave them $200,000. The investment has been paying off ever since...
...declaring emergency rule on the eve of the People Power anniversary, the President may have overplayed her hand and given her fractured opposition a unifying cause. "It could result in more political hemorrhage and security risk," says Representative Rolio Golez, formerly Arroyo's national-security adviser. Former President Fidel Ramos, whose support helped save Arroyo's presidency during a crisis last July, told reporters on Saturday he was "appalled and dismayed" by the declaration of emergency rule. Though he stopped short of calling for her resignation, as Aquino did, Ramos said his support for Arroyo was waning. "She's fond...
...equally poor. Without class divisions, my friends told me, social divisions—like racism and anti-Semitism—don’t exist. For one second, I thought that maybe a system like this, that eliminates destructive social conflict, was the answer. So did Karl and Fidel win me over? Not exactly. As enticing as I found some aspects of the Cuban regime, I soon learned that its advantages come at a high price. First, the government compromises essential freedoms, censoring citizens heavily. It’s true that the arts are heavily subsidized—but only...
...chance to showcase "one of our revolution?s most important principles: the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor." He adds it also reflects "the kind of cooperation mechanism we?re using with our neighbor countries in Latin America." Many of them - especially Cuba, whose communist leader Fidel Castro is one of Chavez?s closest allies - get cheaper access to Venezuelan crude as part of Chavez?s campaign to forge greater Latin American integration and less economic reliance on the U.S. Last Friday, in a move that further irritated the U.S., Chavez was awarded the United Nations' Jose Marti...
...allies in the world, who threaten, who invade, who kill, who assassinate." As for himself, Morales and kindred spirits, the Venezuelan leader said, "We are creating the axis of good, the new axis of the new century." Morales, for his part, added, "The movement is not only in Bolivia; Fidel [Castro] in Cuba and Hugo in Venezuela are logging triumphs in social movements and leftist policies...