Archive for July, 2008

As hard times bite, Cubans show little appetite for celebration

The revolutionary leader said history would judge him, but the daily struggle to survive is testing even his most loyal supporter Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos in 1959. Carmen Gonce remembers the triumph of Cuba‘s revolution as the happiest day of her life. Fidel Castro and his guerrillas swept down from the Sierra Maestra and […]

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