...some family member who is a key player . . . ." Rarely is a single family's fate so entwined with the fate of its nation. When Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba in the 1960s, one of his Communist regime's first acts was the confiscation of the Bacardi rum...
...who reversed the earlier diagnosis and canceled the prescription. Turner also looks back on his unlikely friendship with Fidel Castro (they hunted together, then argued about politics over rum and cigars) and his reconciliation with former rival Rupert Murdoch...
...of the popular president, who was re-elected in 2006 for a six-year term. Chavez, a friend to Iran, Russia and Cuba's Fidel Castro, is highly aware of his need for a visible victory to push forward his cause. "To advance with his revolution he needs...
...unraveling its threads. Baker has made her claims -- including that she was involved in a plot to inject Cuban dictator Fidel Castro with a deadly strain of cancer -- in a short-lived two-volume book called "Lee Harvey Oswald: The True Story of the Accused...
...to his friends, and those he rides with. * A Leftist is loyal to the nightmares of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Fidel Castro - all of whom knew how to run billions of lives for the better. They may be gone but their song remains the same. Dance to...
...Carlos Andres Perez [former President of Venezuela]Â is the political father of Manuel Rosales. My political father is Fidel Castro. Noting that he had never visited the Zulia governors office, Chavez said Why should I be going to the Zuila governors office,...
...types in the reserved seats, chatting of bygone wars and revolutions, mentioning Salvador Allende and Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. A hush fell as Bolivian President Evo Morales strode in, flanked by security men, and the entire room rose in a standing ovation....
...of trade with Costa Rica, whose No. 1 trading partner is the U.S. Next, Hu stopped in Cuba, where he was greeted by Fidel Castro. Then he jetted to Peru to promote another free-trade agreement. The Chinese are implementing on a trade agreement with Chile,...
...L'Afrique en Morceaux which tackles the tragedy of the Great Lakes region and Cuba! Africa! Revolution!, the story of Fidel Castro's troops fighting racism and oppression in Africa. The latter was recently screened to acclaim in South Africa. For the first...
...types in the reserved seats, chatting of bygone wars and revolutions, mentioning Salvador Allende and Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. A hush fell as Bolivian President Evo Morales strode in, flanked by security men, and the entire room rose in a standing ovation. Of...