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...Washington has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba, which is just 153km from the US at the closest point, since the Caribbean island’s revolution led by the late Fidel Castro in the 1950s....
...The first episode alone takes in student unrest at Santiago’s Catholic University; the CIA’s attempts to block Allende’s election; a spy mission to Chile by Fidel Castro’s daughter; a tense meeting between...
...The hero Christian, a dreamy songwriter new in Paris, stumbles on Toulouse-Lautrec (Jason Pennycooke) and Santiago (Elia Lo Tauro) trying out lyrics for The Sound of Music....
...In April, Raúl Castro stepped down as head of the communist party at the age of 89, the first time since the 1959 revolution, led by his brother Fidel, that a Castro had not been in charge....
...From Santiago, the road to Baracoa runs along the coast, past Guantánamo and San Antonio de Sur....
...Fame “attacked” Gabo “like a bull”, says his godson Santiago Mutis....
...The urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is driven through Havana starting a four-day journey across Cuba, on Wednesday....
...Fidel Castro has died.” “There was no audible response. Just quiet....
...On Sunday, his ashes will be interred at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago, in a tomb next to José Martí’s: Castro has thereby sought to appropriate the legacy of the poet and man of letters who is...
...He and a small group then went ahead with a suicidal venture to attack the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, in the hope of provoking an uprising. The 1953 attack failed disastrously....
...“Where is Fidel? Where is Fidel? Where is Fidel? Where is Fidel?” crooned Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan president, in a rambling discourse....
...December 1: Cubans line the streets as Fidel Castro’s funeral cortege makes its cross-country journey from Havana to Santiago de Cuba....
...He was in the Western Sahara with the Polisario Front, and on the streets of Santiago with demonstrators in Pinochet’s Chile....
...On Monday, he will head to the Eastern cities of Holguin and Santiago before flying to Washington on Tuesday....
...Cutillas had been with the family firm since 1955 when it was based in Santiago de Cuba, in the east of the island....
...The marches in the streets of Santiago were the largest since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator....
...Pope Benedict will be met by Mr Castro in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on his arrival from Mexico, and the Vatican has said he would be “available” to meet Fidel Castro....
...Mr Allende was hastily buried in Viña del Mar outside Santiago after the autopsy, only transferred to Santiago after restoration of democracy in 1990....
...On a Saturday night in Santiago, a humid port known as the “cradle of the revolution”, thousands gather on the main avenue to dance and drink as they do every weekend....
...Mr Castro met for more than four hours with Cardinal Jaime Ortega and Bishop Dionisio Garcia of Santiago de Cuba, the head of the Conference of Bishops....
...He has hinted that ways must be found to reform the retail sector since taking over from his ailing brother, Fidel Castro, two years ago....
...Leaders of the Caribbean Community awarded the organisation’s top honour to Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president, on Monday....
...We then waited for Fidel and his brother Raúl to come from Santiago in the east of the island, which they had liberated....
...When Fidel Castro took Santiago 50 years ago he followed up his speech by leading a ragtag caravan of guerillas on a week-long sojourn across the island....
...Cuba has scaled down plans to mark Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power....
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