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Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
Chavez is not as close to Raul Castro as he is to his brother, analysts say. And while commercial and political ties are expected to remain close, Cuba is also looking beyond Chavez for economic help
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
Whatever their opinion of the leader there does seem to be consensus that his exit was certainly well executed
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
The handover to his brother will ensure that Cuba's highly effective machinery of repression continues to operate unimpeded
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
A noted Cuban expert says Raul Castro is his own man with his own ideas. But that doesn't mean major changes should be expected soon
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
Chavez has politically polarized Cuba just as he has polarized his own society, splitting Cuban decision-makers into “chavista” and “anti-chavista” factions
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
Mr. Castro had come to embody all the contradictions of a movement whose time had past
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
The Soviet Union collapsed partly because a series of dying men passed power from one to another
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
Jesus Rey David Alfaro, known as the Little Rooster, is one of at least six singers of narcocorrido ballads about drug trafficking who have been slain since Mexico's drug war flared in 2006
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Bertone, the Vatican's equivalent of a prime minister, will try to use the fortuitously scheduled visit to give a boost to local Catholic leaders and position the Church as a bridge
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 00:00
It remains a mystery whether the elder Mr. Castro, who is 81, will split up the two most important jobs he holds as head of state — the president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers — to give one to a younger loyalist