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Fidel's Long Good-bye |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--CUBA AFTER CASTRO |
| Author: Roger Fontaine |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,214 Words, 19,648 Characters |
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Despite increasing economic distress and political unrest, Cuba's caudillo stubbornly clings to power. Roger Fontaine is a diplomatic correspondent for Report from America, a Washington, D.C.-based news service. vbcrlfThe glory may be fading, but Fidel Castro, now 67, is tenaciously holding onto power. vbcrlfHe may be an anachronism. Who else would tell the world with a straight face that socialism will make a comeback and capitalism is experiencing a complete crisis? But Fidel Castro still runs Cuba with an iron fist. vbcrlfIt was not supposed to be that way. When communist regimes began to crumble in the autumn of 1989, speculation about Castro's fall became the table talk of Cuba watchers. After the sudden, surprising, and violent demise of Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu over ...
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...self-appointed leader of Cuba's working class in his place if it continues to grow. vbcrlfA page taken from the last days of Batista: Cubans began attending mass in large numbers, during which the congregation sang the national anthem as an act of defiance that could not be easily squelched. If and when Cubans do the same kind of thing again, Castro's days in power will truly be numbered. vbcrlf
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