Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate
Greg Grandin : Campaigns & Elections
The retired Cuban dictator has played a vital role in every U.S. presidential election for the last fifty years.
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Castro and the Colossus
Robert Scheer : Cuba
He caused the Cuban people much suffering, but the giant to the north bears even greater responsibility for the island's plight.
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The Day After Fidel
Peter Kornbluh : Cuba
Most authoritarians leave office in a coup or a coffin. Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms.
2006
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Fidel Lives
Few Americans, especially those in government, know much about Cuba. And nowhere is that more evident than in the coverage of Fidel Castro's illness and the transition of power.
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A Bankrupt Cuba Policy
As Iraq burns and Castro recovers, the Bush Administration's schemes to further "Cuba's transition to democracy" ring more hollow than ever.
2004
2003
2001
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The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?
David Corn & Gus Russo : Cuba
New evidence suggests that John and Robert Kennedy approved of a bizarre scheme to assassinate Fidel Castro at Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.
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