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...Conservatives fear Castro would try to set up a hard-left government aligned with Venezuela and Nicaragua....
...Since taking over as president in 2019 and succeeding Raúl Castro as leader of the Communist Party of Cuba in April this year, Díaz-Canel has tried to replace the remaining octogenarian revolutionaries,...
...In the 1980s, Cuba’s then leader Fidel Castro set up the industry to get around the US embargo....
...“The song has definitely caused quite a stir,” said Ricardo Herrero, director of the Washington-based Cuba Study Group, which promotes US-Cuba dialogue....
...The dictator Batista was from Oriente, the first shots of the revolution were fired here, and from a balcony overlooking Santiago’s main square, Castro declared its triumph....
...Cuba proposed Miguel Díaz-Canel as the sole candidate to replace Raúl Castro as president on Wednesday, making him the first non-Castro to lead the socialist country since the 1959 revolution and marking...
...Mr López Obrador, who sees Fidel Castro as a “giant” like Nelson Mandela, is a former firebrand....
...“It is as if Colombia does not know how to turn the page,” says Ricardo Silva Romero, a leading columnist....
...Even Cuba will have a new head of state, whose surname will not be Castro....
...Even communist Cuba will get a new president when Raúl Castro steps down on April 19, the first time in 60 years that a Castro brother has not held the post....
...Nonetheless, he makes no secret of his admiration for the late Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro....
...Picture AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan...
...Ricardo Anaya, leader of the conservative National Action party (PAN), claimed a clear victory in three races and said “in 2018 we are on going to win the presidency”....
...He is clearly losing support,” said Ricardo Sennes, director of Prospectiva, a consultancy in São Paulo....
...But Mr Batista and the executive, Ricardo Saud, were placed under temporary arrest at the weekend pending an investigation....
...This is not going to happen via an election, and will not be market-sensitive, but the island will for the first time in more than half a century be run by a non-Castro and a non-participant in the country...
...The opposition National Action party has not decided whether its leader Ricardo Anaya Cortés, or Mr Calderón’s wife, Margarita Zavala, should be its candidate....
...I think it’s a good idea,” Luis Ricardo, a Cuban-American set to board the flight, told CNN en Español. “And the more flights there are, the cheaper they will be.”...
...“There’s no contradiction between saying [Mr dos Santos] is an extremely powerful president and acknowledging there is such a thing as the MPLA,” said Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, an Oxford professor and...
...“The last gasp of the Dilma government is to make Temer’s life more difficult both in practical terms and in terms of communications,” says João Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group....
...“This is the big bet Lula is making,” says Ricardo Ribeiro, political analyst at MCM Consultores....
...“His aura of invincibility is not there any more,” said Mr Castro Neves of Eurasia Group....
...Ricardo Arten, head of APM Terminals in Brazil, welcomed the package, which included port projects that had been announced before. But its success would depend on execution....
...But the Brazilians more than made up for it after the interval, when their conductor and artistic director Ricardo Castro led them through Mahler’s 1st Symphony....
...Dilma faces a difficult decision: she must either adjust policies and the decision-making process to placate a vocal and growing opposition, or ignore her narrow margin of victory and go on offence,” wrote Ricardo...
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