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...Fidel Castro of Cuba had probably never heard of the Sydney Mirror or its owner Rupert Murdoch....
...The American public never appreciated this, alas, because President John F Kennedy insisted on keeping the US removal of missiles from Turkey secret....
...“F***ing Indian,” they yelled while beating him up....
...prior knowledge of the mafia, J Edgar Hoover or Fidel Castro....
...Some of the least convincing parts of Lansdale’s legacy relate to his work on Operation Mongoose, a covert plan to use psy-ops to overthrow Cuba’s Fidel Castro....
...At the launch of his book Rules for Modern Life last year, guests stayed beyond the time specified on the invitation, causing Tang to bellow to the assembled dukes, politicians and glitterati: “F*** off....
...And in the past decade his brother Raúl has been left to try to make Fidel’s system work in the 21st century. For Cubans, Fidel was how they learnt the alphabet — F for Fidel, Y for Yanqui....
...In the wake of the death of Fidel Castro, it is worth recalling the Cuban missile crisis of 1962....
...“It’s curious: in the same breath a Cuban might say, ‘Viva Fidel!’ and then ‘This is a very f**ked-up country’,” observes Marcel Beltrán, 31, an independent film-maker based in Havana....
...If he completes that term, he will have been president for 20 years — not the half-century of his mentor Fidel Castro, but almost twice Chavez’s reign....
...Fidel Castro has retired. His younger brother, Raúl, has taken his place. Although there has been no reform of the political system, there is foment....
...“This kind of act affects the sensibility of every man,” said Fidel Castro after the incident....
...JFK’s Last Hundred Days: An Intimate Portrait of a Great President, by Thurston Clarke, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Penguin Press, RRP$29.95, 448 pages John F....
...Under John F....
...oversaw the restoration of French rule in what would become southern Vietnam, was described by a member of his staff as having “one of the greatest minds of the twelfth century”; and that when President John F...
...John F Kennedy considered trying to remove Duvalier from power but stopped at the last moment....
...On Friday, the US announced that although a long-standing embargo – imposed by President John F....
...Ms Ros-Lehtinen, who was born in Havana, is well known for her opposition to any softening of the US embargo on Cuba and has said she would welcome the death of Fidel Castro....
...Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former leader, has said the island’s economic model no longer works, in comments likely to be seen as offering backing for economic reform....
...The White House announced a relaxation of sanctions against Cuba, where Raúl Castro has now replaced his brother Fidel as autocrat-in-chief....
...Under the sanctions imposed on Fidel Castro’s communist regime in 1962 by President John F....
...The case for the embargo remains what it always was – making communist Cuba pay a price for the autocratic rule of Fidel (and now his brother Raúl) Castro....
...“The CIA felt …f Fidel, his brother and Ché Guevara were assassinated, thousands of lives might be saved.”...
...And the US government worked on dropping black-faced leafhoppers to destroy the Cuban sugar cane and rice crops as a weapon against Fidel Castro’s revolution....
...With no sign of a fundamental policy shift in Havana, Washington is also continuing the economic embargo introduced by John F. Kennedy....
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