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[O]f course, there was ex-communist Carlos Franqui, who helped Fidel Castro as a journalist and radio broadcaster beginning in 1955 and who would later head clandestine Radio Rebelde from the Sierra Maestra. After the triumph of the Revolution, Franqui would ... edit the official organ Revolución. All of these capable journalists would later see the light and be forced into exile.
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Robert Maheu, a veteran of CIA counter-espionage activities, was instructed to offer the Mafia $150,000 to kill Fidel Castro. The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work is that it provided CIA with a credible cover story. The Mafia were known to be angry with Castro for closing down their profitable brothels and casinos in Cuba. If the assassins were killed or captured the media would accept that the Mafia were working on their own.
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With a multi-class base, the populist nature of the revolution meant that the Cuban bourgeoisie identified Fidel Castro with a return to constitutional rule, and the reaffirmation of civil and political rights. But for the majority, who envisioned a major re-structuring of the society, the issue was social justice.
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Fidel Castro, Cuba's fiery revolutionary patriarch and an international icon of rebellion, became ill in 2006, underwent surgery and has not been seen in public since then. Questions persist about his recovery and he has looked gaunt in photographs.
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Fidel Castro's recent illness has prompted a torrent of speculation about what a post-Fidel Cuba might look like. Here are some recent biographies and books of the "After Fidel" genre to help answer that question.
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The point was not just a fascinating contrast with the hard-right Spanish political figure for whom Fidel Castro himself has long expressed affection, namely Franco's long-standing ministerial colleague (and Fidel's fellow gallego), Manuel Fraga. It was, rather, that these IRI officials were really making a point not about Franco at all, but about Castro.
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