Word: fidels
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...could not rule out the risk of somebody going crazy--or even crazier--within the U.S. government." RAUL CASTRO, Defense Minister and acting President of Cuba, on why he mobilized tens of thousands of troops shortly after the illness of his brother Fidel was announced three weeks...
DIED. Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, 79, former Fidel Castro loyalist who became disillusioned with Castro's totalitarianism and founded the illegal but influential Cuban Committee for Human Rights; in Havana. The world-renowned dissident, known as the dean of the opposition, spent years in prison for being, in Castro's words, a "counterrevolutionary mercenary...
...visible. Raúl has played a major role in recent government battles--for instance, to get Elián González back from the U.S. in 2000 and to win the release of five Cubans convicted of spying in America the following year. When Elián was returned, however, it was Fidel who took center stage...
...wonder, a little, though, about the effects of living for four decades so close to a brother whose name doesn't even have to be invoked for people to know whom you're talking about; Cubans will just make the gesture of stroking a beard to refer to Fidel. Among the many photographs at the family house in Birán is one of a young boy in a cart. The official caption says the picture is of Fidel. On the print itself, someone has written in pen: "Soy yo, Raúl." "It is me, Raúl...
...Miami's Hispanics took to the streets to celebrate Fidel's temporarily stepping down. Way to go, America! Our plan to slowly deteriorate his health over 50 years is working!" STEPHEN COLBERT...