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Fidel Castro: Leaders
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Fidel Castro has survived U.S. hostility, an invasion, several CIA
assassination attempts and an economic embargo. His face has become
an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to
all but a few. Through interviews with relatives, childhood friends,
fellow rebel leaders, Bay of Pigs veterans, human rights activists
and journalists, this program constructs an intimate portrait of the
most resilient of leaders.
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Posada, along with three other well-known terrorists, was detained by Panamanian authorities November 17 for an alleged plan to assassinate President Fidel Castro while the Cuban leader addressed thousands of students at the University of Panama. If the plastic explosive discovered in Panama had been used, hundreds of people could have been killed or injured. But Posada does not seem bothered by "collateral damage."
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Freedom is on the march in Cuba, and Fidel Castro seems nervous. Over the past month, he has intensified his crackdown on political dissenters, making arrests at a pace unseen since the last wave of repression in 2003. Now Rene Gomez Manzano, a dissident leader arrested in his bed on July 22, is starting a hunger strike to protest his unjust imprisonment
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