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Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo dies at 77; Cuban rebel later opposed Castro
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a rebel leader in the Cuban revolution who went from fighting alongside Fidel Castro to spending 22 brutal years in prison after trying to overthrow him, has died. He was 77. Gutierrez Menoyo died Friday of a heart attack at a...
Tags: Francisco Franco, Prisons, Punishment, Heart Attack, Cuba
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Julio Casas Regueiro dies at 75; Cuba's defense minister
Gen. Julio Casas Regueiro, an accountant who fought in Cuba's revolution and then used his training to run the military's lucrative economic enterprises for two decades before becoming defense minister, has died. He was 75.
Casas died Saturday in...Tags: Heart Failure, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Raul Castro, Parties and Movements, Companies and Corporations
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Alberto Granado dies at 88; he traveled with Che Guevara across Latin America in 1952
Alberto Granado, who accompanied Ernesto "Che" Guevara on a 1952 journey of discovery across Latin America that was immortalized in Guevara's memoir and on screen in "The Motorcycle Diaries," has died in Cuba. He was 88.
Granado, an Argentine...Tags: Raul Castro, Walter Salles, Diseases and Illnesses, Colleges and Universities, Trips and Vacations
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PASSINGS: Peter Haskell, Carlos Franqui, Peter Steele
Peter Haskell
'Bracken's World' star
Peter Haskell, 75, a prolific stage, screen and TV actor who starred in the TV series "Bracken's World," died April 12 at his Northridge home, said his daughter, Audra.
He played writer-producer Kevin Grant on...Tags: Television, Civil Unrest, Crime, Law and Justice, ABC (tv network), Activism
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'Cuba' by Julia E. Sweig
Cuba What Everyone Needs to Know Julia E. Sweig Oxford University Press: 304 pp., $16.95 paper Despite decades of heated rhetoric from Washington and Miami, most of the time Americans don't give a lot of thought to Cuba. Then, once or twice a decade,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, History, Colleges and Universities, University of Oxford, Philosophy
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Juan Almeida Bosque dies at 82; guerrilla was among Fidel Castro's top commanders
Associated PressJuan Almeida Bosque, a comrade of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than half a century ago, died of a heart attack Friday in Havana, government media announced. He was 82. One of three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the...Tags: Raul Castro, Health and Safety at School, Communist Party of China, Heart Attack, Death
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Che's legacy looms larger than ever
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was a long fight, but the Cubans have finally conquered this forlorn Andean hamlet, four decades after Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed in the adobe schoolhouse here. Cuban physicians provide healthcare, Cuban educators oversee literacy classes, and...Tags: James Dean, Guerrilla Activity, Steven Soderbergh, Wars and Interventions, Benicio Del Toro
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Fidel's slow fade
In the early '90s, when I was living in Havana with my family, my eldest daughter, Bella, who was then about 6 years old, came home from school one afternoon in a state of excitement. She asked me, in Spanish: "Daddy, do you know what 'amor' means?" I...Tags: Foreign Aid, Television, Raul Castro, Health and Safety at School, Havana (Cuba)
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Review: 'Che'
Well into the fourth hour of "Che," the extraordinary and challenging new work by director Steven Soderbergh, the film's subject -- the Argentine-born political insurgent Ernesto Guevara -- strikes a recalcitrant horse. Wheezing and depleted from severe...Tags: Cinema Industry, Walter Salles, Drama (genre), Wheezing, Documentary (genre)
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Cuba: The secret vacation Americans don't talk about
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHAVANA -- Here we are on Day 13,286 of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, another day of humidity and nostalgia in Fidel Castro's capital. Beneath the flaking pastel-hued walls of Old Havana, old men peddle the government newspaper and young men...Tags: Justice and Rights, Matt Dillon, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Restaurants, Salsa (genre)
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'Miami' by Joan Didion
"Not Left but East," was Andre Gide's disillusioned comment when he returned from a visit to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Like many of his fellow European intellectuals, he had thought of it as a utopia of progress. He concluded that the fabled...Tags: Heads of State, Joan Didion, Philosophy, Activism, Diplomacy
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Americans fear Iran, but there is much to learn from Cuba
William PfaffPARIS -- A Gallup poll issued this month says that 99 percent of the American public now has become convinced that Iran's civilian nuclear program will threaten "the vital interests of the United States in the next ten years." Eighty-three percent say...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Raul Castro, International Military Interventions, Religion and Belief
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