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Far Cry 6 Is All About Cuba, but Yara Is Not Cuba
Far Cry 6 narrative director Navid Khavari, world director Benjamin Hall, game content director Omar Bouali, actor Alex Fernandez, writer-actor Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, and lead game designer David Grivel talk about how Cuba — from the guerrilla revolution and resolver philosophy — heavily inspired the new political Far Cry game. Far Cry 6 out O...
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US Planned To Assassinate Fidel Castro's Brother Raul In 1960: Declassified Documents
The CIA made its first known attempt to assassinate a leader of the Cuban revolution in 1960, offering $10,000 to a pilot flying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana to arrange an "accident," according to declassified documents published Friday.
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At 96, Cuban Ballet Legend Alicia Alonso Still Dancing Inside
She needs help sitting down, but no sooner has she done it than Alicia Alonso is tapping her foot three times and giving orders in a good-natured but authoritative tone.
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Barefoot And Brave: Fidel Castro's Ranch Life
Nobody in Fidel Castro's village expected the boy who liked to walk barefoot and jump in the river to leave the comforts of his family's ranch to launch a revolution.
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'I Am Fidel!': Cuba, Leftist Leaders Rally For Fidel Castro
Leftist Latin American leaders vowed on Tuesday to carry the torch of Fidel Castro's revolution at a massive rally in honor of the late Cuban communist icon in Havana.
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Tens Of Thousands Of Cubans Pay Last Respects To Fidel Castro
Galvanized by a 21-gun salute that thundered across Havana, tens of thousands of Cubans paid final respects on Monday to Fidel Castro, who led a leftist revolution, ruled for half a century and resisted the United States throughout the Cold War.
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Man Behind Fidel Castro's Granma Yacht Lost For Words Over Death
The man who helped a young Fidel Castro set sail for revolution said on Saturday he was speechless over the death of his old friend, 60 years after he furnished him with a weapons-filled yacht for his historic voyage to Cuba.
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Fidel Castro, One Of World's Most Controversial Leaders, Dies At 90
Fidel Castro, whose Cuban revolution turned his Caribbean island into a potent symbol of the world's greatest ideological and economic divides of the 20th century, has died, Cuban state media announced late Friday. He was 90.
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Fidel Castro: Cuba's Revolutionary Communist Icon, In His Own Words
Cuba's Fidel Castro, who seized power in Cuba in a 1959 revolution and transformed the country into a communist state while ruling for five decades has died, Cuban television said on Saturday. He was 90.
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Cuban Revolutionary Leader And Former President Fidel Castro Dies At 90
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90.
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On 90th Birthday, Fidel Castro Thanks Well-Wishers, Appears At Gala
Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance on Saturday at his 90th birthday gala, after the leader of the 1959 revolution thanked fellow Cubans for their well wishes and lambasted his old foe the United States in a column carried by state-run media.
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First US Chain Hotel In A Half-Century Opens In Cuba
Starwood Hotels on Tuesday took over management of a luxury hotel in central Havana, becoming the first big American hospitality chain with a presence on the island since the Cuban Revolution a half-century ago.
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Raul Castro Hardens Rhetoric, Warns Cubans To Be Alert To US Intentions
President Raul Castro warned Cubans on Saturday that the United States was determined to end Cuba's socialist revolution despite restoring relations and a visit by US President Barack Obama, saying one-party Communism was essential to defend the system.
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Obama In Cuba: Historic Castro Summit A Key Test For Detente
Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana's Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama's sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated.
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Pope Francis Urges New Kind of 'Revolution' in Cuba: Reconciliation
Pope Francis delivered mass Tuesday in the Cuban city of Santiago, cradle of the communist island's 1959 revolution, calling for a new kind of "revolution": one of "reconciliation."
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Far Cry 6 Is All About Cuba, but Yara Is Not Cuba
Far Cry 6 narrative director Navid Khavari, world director Benjamin Hall, game content director Omar Bouali, actor Alex Fernandez, writer-actor Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, and lead game designer David Grivel talk about how Cuba — from the guerrilla revolution and resolver philosophy — heavily inspired the new political Far Cry game. Far Cry 6 out O...
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US Planned To Assassinate Fidel Castro's Brother Raul In 1960: Declassified Documents
The CIA made its first known attempt to assassinate a leader of the Cuban revolution in 1960, offering $10,000 to a pilot flying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana to arrange an "accident," according to declassified documents published Friday.
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At 96, Cuban Ballet Legend Alicia Alonso Still Dancing Inside
She needs help sitting down, but no sooner has she done it than Alicia Alonso is tapping her foot three times and giving orders in a good-natured but authoritative tone.
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Barefoot And Brave: Fidel Castro's Ranch Life
Nobody in Fidel Castro's village expected the boy who liked to walk barefoot and jump in the river to leave the comforts of his family's ranch to launch a revolution.
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'I Am Fidel!': Cuba, Leftist Leaders Rally For Fidel Castro
Leftist Latin American leaders vowed on Tuesday to carry the torch of Fidel Castro's revolution at a massive rally in honor of the late Cuban communist icon in Havana.
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Tens Of Thousands Of Cubans Pay Last Respects To Fidel Castro
Galvanized by a 21-gun salute that thundered across Havana, tens of thousands of Cubans paid final respects on Monday to Fidel Castro, who led a leftist revolution, ruled for half a century and resisted the United States throughout the Cold War.
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Man Behind Fidel Castro's Granma Yacht Lost For Words Over Death
The man who helped a young Fidel Castro set sail for revolution said on Saturday he was speechless over the death of his old friend, 60 years after he furnished him with a weapons-filled yacht for his historic voyage to Cuba.
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Fidel Castro, One Of World's Most Controversial Leaders, Dies At 90
Fidel Castro, whose Cuban revolution turned his Caribbean island into a potent symbol of the world's greatest ideological and economic divides of the 20th century, has died, Cuban state media announced late Friday. He was 90.
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Fidel Castro: Cuba's Revolutionary Communist Icon, In His Own Words
Cuba's Fidel Castro, who seized power in Cuba in a 1959 revolution and transformed the country into a communist state while ruling for five decades has died, Cuban television said on Saturday. He was 90.
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Cuban Revolutionary Leader And Former President Fidel Castro Dies At 90
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90.
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On 90th Birthday, Fidel Castro Thanks Well-Wishers, Appears At Gala
Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance on Saturday at his 90th birthday gala, after the leader of the 1959 revolution thanked fellow Cubans for their well wishes and lambasted his old foe the United States in a column carried by state-run media.
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First US Chain Hotel In A Half-Century Opens In Cuba
Starwood Hotels on Tuesday took over management of a luxury hotel in central Havana, becoming the first big American hospitality chain with a presence on the island since the Cuban Revolution a half-century ago.
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Raul Castro Hardens Rhetoric, Warns Cubans To Be Alert To US Intentions
President Raul Castro warned Cubans on Saturday that the United States was determined to end Cuba's socialist revolution despite restoring relations and a visit by US President Barack Obama, saying one-party Communism was essential to defend the system.
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Obama In Cuba: Historic Castro Summit A Key Test For Detente
Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana's Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama's sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated.
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Pope Francis Urges New Kind of 'Revolution' in Cuba: Reconciliation
Pope Francis delivered mass Tuesday in the Cuban city of Santiago, cradle of the communist island's 1959 revolution, calling for a new kind of "revolution": one of "reconciliation."
