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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
There are others considered possible candidates to succeed Castro
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
Of the three major presidential hopefuls, Sen. Barack Obama has signaled he would eliminate restrictions on Cuban American travel and remittances to the island but would keep most of the embargo in place
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
NAME: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz.
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<br />TITLES: President of Council of State and Council of Ministers, first secretary of Communist Party of Cuba, commander in chief of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Before announcing he was ill and ceding power to his brother Raul on July 31, 2006, was world's longest-ruling head of government, and leader of one of world's last few communist states. He officially resigned as president on Feb. 19, 2008.
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<br />BIRTHDATE: Officially listed as Aug.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
Entering Havana triumphantly, Castro declared: "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it."
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
Guyanese soldiers and police fanned out in the jungles surrounding this bullet-pockmarked township Monday, searching for gunmen who killed 12 in the second massacre blamed on gangs in recent weeks
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
Fidel Castro today announced his retirement as head of state of Cuba, 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
The number of political prisoners declines as Cuba tries to improve its image. Yet the repression, like the dictatorship, has not changed
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 00:00
Ball now has his methodological lens trained on Colombia. On the face of it, the country’s crime figures look good for President Álvaro Uribe
Monday, February 18, 2008 - 00:00
U.S. espionage operations targeting top Colombian government officials in 1993 provided key evidence linking the U.S.-Colombia task force charged with tracking down fugitive drug lord Pablo Escobar to one of Colombia's most notorious paramilitary chiefs
Monday, February 18, 2008 - 00:00
Tensions are on the rise between Colombia and Venezuela, and some observers are considering the possibility that a small conflict between the two might break out