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...Raúl Castro, 86, stood down as president of Cuba and was replaced by Miguel Díaz-Canel, 57, the vice-president....
...Mr Díaz-Canel, who turns 58 on Friday, represents a new wave taking charge from the so-called “historic generation” that led the struggle against the dictator Fulgencio Batista....
...Mr Díaz-Canel, who turns 58 on Friday, represents a new generation taking charge from the so-called “historic generation” that led the struggle against the dictator Fulgencio Batista....
...This was in exchange for Mr Batista not receiving any jail time. Mr Janot has denied any wrongdoing....
...He moved into politics, deciding that he could not work within the system after Batista engineered a coup in 1952....
...and Argentine doctor Che Guevara 1956 — Castro returns to Cuba with a small band of revolutionaries on a decrepit yacht, and begins a campaign of guerrilla warfare against Batista’s troops 1958 — Batista...
...that had nothing to do with politics, she often returned and had cheered Castro’s jubilant rebels and thrown flowers in their path when they had marched into Havana 57 years ago, the dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...Fidel Castro, 90, has retired, and his brother and successor Raúl Castro, 85, has begun gradual economic reforms to Cuba’s Soviet-style economy under the rubric “without hurry but without pause”....
...As US-Cuban relations began to thaw following the agreement struck last year between Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, the art world responded in the best way it knew how: it promptly opened a gallery in downtown...
...Strip away the nuclear controversy and both countries have a similarly-contoured history: the whirligig sultanate of Fulgencio Batista finds its counterpart in the Shah....
...Its biggest billionaire, Eike Batista, saw his flagship companies go bankrupt....
...This would end a dynasty that has dominated since late 1950s, when Fidel’s July 26 movement overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista....
...Still, Raul Martinez-Ostos, Barclays’ country head for Mexico says any “contamination” from the bankruptcy of Mr Batista’s companies or a slowdown in Brazil is likely to be shortlived....
...His younger brother, Raúl, is now president but is 81 years old. Fidel, at 85, is infirm and nearing his actuarial end....
...There are two very different visions of the young Raúl Castro who fought alongside his older brother Fidel and Che Guevara against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista more than five decades ago....
...Pay, Raúl added, had to be linked to results. It was a radical speech for a 78-year-old communist. Yet Raúl had made similar speeches before, and little so far has changed....
...We then waited for Fidel and his brother Raúl to come from Santiago in the east of the island, which they had liberated....
...Faded scraps of pre-revolutionary graffiti – “Down with the murderer Batista!” – can still be seen on crumbling walls....
...From her office, decorated with posters of Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl (who became the country’s president in 2008) and Che Guevara, she oversees Gusman’s clinic and dozens of others across the district...
...Although he has passed the title of president to his brother, Raúl, he is still said to run the country from behind the scenes....
...In the early hours of New Year’s day 1959, the dictator Fulgencio Batista stole away from Cuba....
...While in hospital 18 months ago he handed over to his brother Raúl, five years his junior....
...Mr Castro, who is now 81, has been head of the Cuban government and ruling party ever since his guerrilla army marched into Havana 49 years ago, ousting the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista....
...Mr Ventura, 77, served as a doctor under Raúl during the guerrilla war that toppled Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship and has been among the most important leaders of the revolution for more than two decades...
...Batista flees to Dominican Republic January 8 1959 Castro enters Havana after triumphal journey across Cuba....
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