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...Then comes Celia Sánchez, the largely unspoken hero of Fidel Castro’s revolution. She is surprised to find a portrait of herself mounted in my living room. At last, the bell rings announcing Lord....
...In the late 1980s, Arturo Cuenca had an argument with Fidel Castro and the Cuban communist party’s chief ideologist, Carlos Aldana. Cuenca, then in his mid-30s, was already an acclaimed artist....
...Madrid refused to bow to Moroccan pressure although Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez subsequently replaced his foreign minister....
...If such sentiment lifts Mr Morales to a second round vote victory, and allows him to complete another term, he will have been president for 20 years — not the half-century of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, but more...
...“Cuba became a country of silent people this Saturday,” tweeted Yoani Sánchez, publisher of the independent news website, 14yMedio.com....
...His greatest personal confidante was Celia Sanchez, who had helped to organise his life from the earliest days of his campaign in the Sierra....
...Maripaz Sánchez Colin, a domestic worker, says everyone in her poor neighbourhood of Mexico City has always voted for Amlo, and she plans to do so again because of his support for the underprivileged and...
...Under Raúl Castro, he said, repressive policies had been more “pragmatic” — there had been a large number of detentions of dissidents and activists, but for much shorter periods than when his brother Fidel...
...Sánchez started out as an abstract painter and set designer, moving in politically radical circles before the Cuban revolution....
...We have lost count,” wrote dissident journalist Yoani Sánchez in a column on her website, 14ymedio.com. “But their illustrious presence has brought little relief to Cuban daily life.”...
...Alongside Fidel Castro’s 26th of July movement and the January 1 1959 “triumph of the revolution”, there is now December 17 2014....
...When asked by the FT earlier this year what victory might mean for her, Yoani Sánchez, a leading Cuban dissident, gave a nuanced and long-term view....
...But public criticism has stopped short of questioning the political status quo, aside from a fledgling dissident press, such as the online newspaper 14ymedio.com, run by writer Yoani Sánchez....
...Yoani Sánchez, Cuba’s best known dissident, still blogs and tweets. Yet the defiant tread a fine line....
...He had many reasons to throw himself into the arms of Fidel Castro....
...(Weirdly, according to Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, Cuban state media also broadcast the handshake on television.)...
...The second strand was rooted in Latin populism, placed Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in a pantheon of demigods, and were often poor or spendthrift, or both....
...“The government has chosen its dauphin,” tweeted Cuban pro-democracy blogger Yoani Sánchez....
...Fidel Castro has valued the relationship for Cuba at about $7bn a year....
...Cane interests are concentrated in Florida and Louisiana and include groups such as the politically influential Fanjul family, which rebuilt a sugar dynasty in the US after fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba....
...And in the Sierra Maestra he certainly did speak to Celia Sánchez, Castro’s aide and sometime lover, who promised to arrange an appointment....
...Fidel Castro has called her the leader of a group of “special envoys of neo-colonialism, sent to undermine” the Castro brothers’ rule....
...Yet Fidel Castro is no longer in charge. Instead his younger and more pragmatic brother Raúl is president, and pushing forward a slow but nonetheless significant process of economic reform....
...Fidel Castro, 85, gave up his party posts at the congress last April and did not put in an appearance this time....
...Further reading: Getting to know Yoani Sánchez, Cuba’s best-known bloggerFreedom is coming slowly – but surely – to CubaLatin America’s growing self-confidenceChávez, cancer and Cuba – The New Yorker’s Jon...
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