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July 27: US officials have refused to back down from President Bush's charge that Cuba promotes sex tourism - something Fidel Castro denies. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli says the issue of prostitution in Cuba is well documented. He referred to a 2002 human rights report that said Cuba had replaced Southeast Asia as one of the world's top sex tourism destinations. [Department of State Daily Press Briefing and Trafficking in Persons Report. 200 4 ] (VOA, 27/7/04)
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Many years later Fidel Castro had to face these problems in unexpected ways. Sugar, the single product, remained the pillar and the bane of the new socialist economy. When trade with one "single country"- the United States-ended, Fidel Castro discovered that he had to cope with the problem of political dependency on another single country-the Soviet Union-which took its place.
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Fidel Castro led a politico-military revolution in Cuba and established the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Cuba, with Castro still in charge, remains today one of the world’s few surviving Communist countries. Although his influence is waning, Castro continues to provide the greatest threat to peace and political stability in the Americas.
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July 28: Fidel Castro and US policy on Cuba has emerged as a critical topic in the Republican race for the US Senate, signaling the importance that the leading contenders place on support from South Florida's Cuban exile community. The issue escalated into a spat between GOP frontrunner Bill McCollum and his nearest rival, Mel Martinez, that culminated in McCollum filing a complaint with state Republican Party officials. McCollum, a former Orlando-area congressman, charged in a letter to state GOP Chairwoman Carole Jean Jordan that Martinez has attacked his integrity "in a manner that is quite simply deplorable." The complaint follows statements to reporters by Martinez and his aides suggesting that McCollum is "working in tandem" with Castro to keep Martinez out of office. Martinez's aides called McCollum's complaints a "silly campaign tactic." They said it comes on the heels of the distribution in South Florida of a McCollum campaign brochure touting McCollum's views on US policy with Cuba and Castro, and promoting endorsements he's received from two influential South Florida GOP congressmen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart.
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Fidel Castro's recovery from surgery is slow and has risks, his close ally President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said yesterday, but he denied a newspaper report the Cuban leader's condition was serious. Chávez said the United States was behind false reports exaggerating the illness.
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Cuba was once ruled by a military ruler, until Fidel Castro came into power after a revolution. Fidel Castro quickly tried to secure trade ties with the United States, but as he was sympathetic to communists the United States was afraid he was one himself. Having no trade ties with the United States, he turned to the Soviet Union.
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