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...He has little time for romantic views of Fidel the revolutionary leader. “The negotiation with Fidel was very tense, very dreadful, very difficult,” he recalled. “He was very aggressive.”...
...Fidel Castro had been in power in Cuba since 1959, but the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 marked the first real change....
...Perhaps the past was not always as rosy as it might seem: in 2009, Hugo Chávez was still alive, still fomenting world revolutions, and oil still commanded more than $100 a barrel (Fidel Castro was still...
...The country’s first dictator, José Santos Zelaya, was driven from power with American help in 1909. Two decades of US military presence in the country followed....
...“Television is still central within the Brazilian media system,” said Suzy dos Santos, a professor of communications at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro....
...With a soft spot for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, he does little to dispel fears Honduras would lurch left if the Alliance wins....
...But it now appears significant that Mr dos Santos did not fly to Havana last week for the funeral of his old comrade Fidel Castro — especially as one in 20 Cubans alive today fought in Angola between 1979...
...It was probably the year’s most significant political accomplishment and rightly earned President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize....
...“At the end of his days, Fidel Castro acknowledged that armed struggle was not the way,” Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, said, in gratitude for the role Havana has played in brokering peace...
...The ELN was founded by radical Roman Catholic priests and Marxist intellectuals inspired by Cuban revolutionaries, such as Fidel Castro and “Che” Guevara....
...The ELN, which first opened fire with bolt-action rifles in the early 1960s, was founded by radical Roman Catholic priests and Marxist intellectuals inspired by Cuban revolutionaries, such as Fidel Castro...
...First, Fidel Castro swapped his military fatigues for trainers and tracksuit. Then Hugo Chávez followed....
...Earlier this week Santos called on the ELN to join Farc in declaring a unilateral ceasefire....
...A proposal by Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to “leave a legacy for the future by creating an Inter-American education system” appeared to fall on deaf ears....
...A well-known leftwinger, who was close to Cuba’s Fidel Castro, García Márquez was the master of magical realism – a blend of everyday Latin American realities and fantastical elements....
...“It is newspaper policy,” says Fidel Cano, El Espectador’s editor and the nephew of Don Guillermo – one sign of editorial continuity under its new owners....
...To stem the exodus, President Santos recently sent a delegation to Abu Dhabi to work on an accord....
...Mr Santos has launched a peace process that could end a conflict that has caused tens of thousands of deaths....
...Mr Chávez, who takes advice from his ally Fidel Castro, saw all this coming long ago....
...Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and their guerrilla army were on their way into the city....
...In Caracas, Desire Santos Amaral, a pro-Chávez politician, called Mr Robertson a “fascist” whose opinions were “part of the policies of aggression from the rightwing in the North”....
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