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February 28, 2008

Cuba: Same Old Guard Pulling the Strings

by Marifeli Perez-Stable, The Miami Herald, USA - What happened in Havana on Sunday reminded me of Moscow in the early 1980s. After Leonid Brezhnev's passing, two old men -- first, the more open-minded Yuri Andropov, then the mummified Konstantin Chernenko -- ruled the Soviet Union. Not until 1985 did the youthful Mikhail Gorbachev take the Kremlin's reins. The rest is history.

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