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Rodriguez said Castro is an illegal immigrant and that he gave investigators a confession that implicated himself in the girl's death.

Officials at the TV station which interviewed her said Miss Castro continued to help the CIA after she arrived in the US.

Castro stuck out his hand and I shook it, the first President to do so in more than forty years.

Raul Castro hailed Mr Carter as an "honest man" and said the visit had helped address "common problems" .

Such scenes were repeated across the island as Mr Castro embarked on a week-long triumphal march to Havana.

The long and extraordinary political career of Fidel Castro is over - at least as far as the presidency is concerned.

Castro hated the group and the leaflets critical of him that it had dropped over Havana in the past.

But Mr Castro stopped trying to overthrow Latin American governments more than two decades ago, shortly before his Soviet sponsor collapsed.

Castro cannot be reasonably expected to renounce his beliefs or implicate himself in killings or atrocities.

Castro said there was a chance for negotiations now that the White House had toned down Bush-era hostility towards Havana.

Mr. Halter had never been permitted to question him, nor had Mr. Castro-Wright's computer files been examined, records and interviews show.

Eduardo Castro-Wright, Wal-Mart's president and CEO of the company's U. S. operations, resigned from his role for personal reasons in June.

Obama said he would like to see Mr. Castro release political prisoners and stop imposing hefty taxes on money sent from the U. S.

Cuban state television read a letter from Mr. Castro in which he said he is physically unable to fulfill the duties of president.

Witnesses at the time said he killed himself rather than surrender using a rifle given to him by his friend, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

But he said the handover of power from one member of the Castro family to another does not bode well for Cuba's immediate political future.

Mr Carter also met Raul Castro's brother Fidel, and said he and the veteran communist leader and talked like "old friends" .

Although Castro is built on a larger-than-life scale, he has never been known as reflective or self-aware.

"This also is far from being a lost battle, " Castro, dressed in a red, white and blue track suit, said of his current health problems.

The evidence suggests that Mr Castro imposed communism in Cuba of his own volition, not in reaction to American hostility.

Members of the United States Congress have met the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the end of a five-day visit to the island.

From her house in Havana, Miss Castro said she worked to shelter and help those who were being persecuted by her brother's government.

Raul Castro has twice publicly announced he is prepared to sit down for talks with Washington on the problems between the two countries.

Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel.

MAX MARAMBIO, a Chilean businessman, can claim an unusual consequence of his friendship with Fidel Castro. It made him rich.

A report earlier this month by Human Rights Watch appeared to confirm that repression had grown even worse under Raul Castro's regime.

It has also been a victim of mass theft during revolutions, as happened after Castro's.

A frail asthmatic, he took up arms with Fidel Castro's guerrillas in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.

Cuba President Raul Castro says his government is prepared to meet with the Obama Administration.

Lucio Castro of CIPPEC, a think-tank, says this sort of co-ordinated farming lobby is "a complete novelty in Argentina" .

As to Fidel Castro, he frankly scorns the United States, sending his troops to distant adventures from his country right next to yours.

As the curtain comes down on Mr Castro's 49 years of rule, change is inevitable.

Mayor Castro's really struck out to me because he kept repeating this refrain, opportunity breeds prosperity, opportunity breeds prosperity.

It was the first suggestion from the 81-year-old Castro that he might step down permanently from the presidency.

President Bush says he hopes the end of Fidel Castro's rule can be the beginning of peaceful reform.

Presumably Castro will describe his revolutionary war in the 1950s as intense and full of heroics, as no doubt it was.

In all this Mr Castro is bowing to reality. He has been withering in his criticism of the featherbedding that has bankrupted the state.

Last week, Mr. Ou sat down with Isabel Castro in New York to explain why these images are important.

Mr Castro has been emphatic that Cuba's communist system is not up for negotiation with the United States.

Talk, spiced with irreverent jokes, would turn (as it does in many Cuban homes) to how the Castro brothers were slowing needed reforms.

As the leader of the only communist country in the Western Hemisphere, Castro has been the focus of international controversy.

Unfortunately for the Cuban people, the Castro dictatorship. . . is not taking a holiday from its schedule of oppression and repression.

Perhaps one thing is sure in Cuba: Fidel Castro will not show up for that.

The meeting is expected to endorse market economic reforms, which President Raul Castro says are needed to save the socialist system.

After two hours of exercise each day, Castro reads detailed press briefings of Cuban and global news prepared by his staff.

The Cuban government says Fidel Castro is recovering from intestinal surgery and that his final moment is still very far away.

Many Cuban Americans in Miami have been waiting to hear word of Fidel Castro's health.

Before Castro his mother's family owned a huge store but when the communists came, they lost everything.

It makes perfect sense that Castro would want everyone to be like Che, for Che served Castro to his dying breath.

Raul Castro, who turns 80 in June, is expected to be elected First Secretary by the congress in place of his older brother Fidel Castro, 84.

He interrupted his speech at the rally to call Cuba's Fidel Castro, who he considers his mentor.

This will provide important pointers to a Cuba without the direction of the Castro brothers.

The statement comes one day after Castro turned over power of the communist country to his brother.

Earlier this year, Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba for decades, stepped down and ceded power to his brother, Raul.

The US used to look forward to a so-called "poof moment" when the communist system 90 miles off Florida collapsed upon Fidel Castro's death.

WHEN serious illness forced him to hand over power in 2006, Fidel Castro had been running things for almost half a century.

che. Guevara is one of the leaders of the Cuban national liberation movement, also Castro's close comrade-in-arms.

Giorgio Castro, a 62-year-old Rome-based entrepreneur, says he dreamed of owning a place in Manhattan for decades.

The Castro regime is a thorn in the flesh; but it is not a dagger in the heart.

Castro was to be arraigned today, and is to face a capital murder charge.

The president transferred power to his brother, Raul Castro, following the surgery.

Cuban official newspaper "Granma" published on the front page 18, Fidel Castro, a signed article.

Cuban officials announced Monday that President Fidel Castro had temporarily handed power to his brother following surgery.

Mr Castro was inspired first and foremost by his country's frustrated search for nationhood.

The statement says Mr. Castro had surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding brought on by stress and he will rest for the next few weeks.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on its website Monday that Mr. Castro suffers from a serious infection and is worsen to peritonitis.

Castro ceded power to his brother in 2006 before undergoing surgery for a still-undisclosed intestinal condition.

My father, Jose, had been a military policeman under Batista and was working in the palace when Castro's forces invaded.

The CIA quickly concluded that Mr Castro was a closet communist and set out to overthrow him.

With Soviet help, Mr. Castro lent military troops and political backing to help spread Communism in Africa and Latin America.

But he vowed that the island will not see fundamental change even after he and his older brother and predecessor Fidel Castro are gone.

Castro lights the cigarette of a young rebel with his own cigar.

In an editorial released by the Cuban government Wednesday, Mr. Castro said that he is getting better and that his weight is stabilizing.

Prior to the meeting, Raul Castro, First Vice President of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of Cuba also met with Yang.

Raul Castro has stressed that the focus of the meeting will be sweeping economic changes to the Soviet-style economy.

The foreign minister did not say when Castro will return.

Yet for now, Mr Castro still considers letting foreign firms pay market wages a step too far. That has forced companies to break the law.

Today, 44 years later, Fidel Castro, a diehard enemy of the United States, is still in power.

When the infamous attempt to reclaim Cuba failed, in April 1961, my dad was again taken as a political prisoner by Castro's forces.

The first photograph of Fidel Castro to be published in five months appeared on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church.

For a moment it seemed that the Berlin government would refuse Castro's offer of mediation.

Fidel Castro stood down as Cuba's leader in 2006 with an intestinal illness, and was still too unwell to receive calls.

Some Cuban-American leaders denounce the changes as simply propping up the Castro brothers with American dollars.

Dr. Biscet became one of the few dissidents that Castro has ever attacked by name in a speech to the nation.

Raul Castro has spoken of economic liberalization and pursuing a possible thaw in relations with the United States.

most people said they had no idea Mr Castro was scheduled to speak, even though the programme was given endless publicity in state media.

Castro says since Katrina, they have cut merchandise prices and tried to emphasize just how affordable an LSU family night can be.

But the Congress largely failed to put Mr Castro's words into practice.

As an exile in Mexico after this Fidel Castro organised other Cuban exiles and trained them in mountain warfare.

Despite Castro's graying beard and slightly slower gait, the demands of the job don't seem to show.

Despite Castro's graying beard and slightly slower gait, the demands of the job don't seem to show.

Castro plans to reduce the size of the state and expand the private sector while maintaining central planning and control.

Fidel Castro has been bearing witness in recent years to this celestial sense of humour.

3In this April 1961 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro jumps from a tank as he arrives at Giron, Cuba, near the Bay Of Pigs.

The excesses of Castro's apparatchiks during the cold war pale in comparison to the invidious exploits of the Boligarchs.

Ensconced in his Communist-run island, Castro has weathered ten American presidents and their economic embargo against him.

Castro, after all, was the "maximum leader" , a controversial political titan and the most famous name on the CIA's hit list.

The second argues that the only exceptional thing is Mr Castro: remove his evil genius and the regime will crumble.

Nearly all elections are now free and fair. The big exception remains the gerontocratic dictatorship of the Castro brothers in Cuba.

The youngest of our three is Julian Castro, elected mayor of San Antonio in May 2009 at the tender age of 34.

Mr Castro, who turns 84 this week, had to be helped to his seat at the podium.

Santeria High Priest prepares a rooster for sacrifice in a ceremony for the recovery of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

In his later years, Mr. Castro became the role model to a new generation of leftist leaders in Latin America.

SERGIO DE CASTRO: The basic thrust was to increase exports and abolish artificial price controls.

Fidel and Raul Castro's younger sister says that she helped the CIA against her brothers for eight years.

They also monitored militant anti-Castro groups and tried to place operatives inside the campaigns of anti-Castro politicians.

Samantha said she assured her mom that she thinks of Castro as a brother.

Mr. Castro also fostered a close alliance with the Soviet Union -- a move that alienated the United States.

The appointment of Machado Ventura, a member of Raul Castro's inner circle, suggested change would be subtle.

In 1961, a CIA-trained force made an unsuccessful attempt to land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and topple Fidel Castro.

It blamed managers for lax oversight after an initial surge of compliance with Castro's exhortations to stop the pilfering.

So far, Mr Castro has mainly drawn on his former colleagues in the Cuban army.

In 2000 Panama jailed him for plotting to kill Mr Castro during a summit.

"Fidel Castro remains a . . . controlling political presence, " Thomas Shannon, US assistant secretary of state, said recently.

I later received word from Castro, indirectly of course, that the shootdown was a mistake.

In Juanita Castro's new memoir, she claims that she originally supported the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel to power in 1959.

The Soviet Union was lumbered with Fidel Castro, Mengistu Haile Mariam and the tyrants of its satellite states in eastern Europe.

Since then, the US has tried to assassinate Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president and Raul's brother, on several occasions.

A case in point is the long-standing U. S. embargo on Cuba, imposed in 1960 with the purpose of toppling Fidel Castro.

Critics say all these programmes have done a good job of fuelling the anti-Castro industry in Miami, while having little impact in Cuba.

There is evidence, however, that Castro is persuading at least some black market operators to play by the rules and pay taxes.

The leftist Venezuelan president's brother, Education Minister Adan Chavez, was also seen in the video visiting Castro.

Mr Castro's firm, Pluggd, does a similar thing with podcasts, spotting keywords so listeners can jump directly to segments of interest.

Castro chats with one of his men.

Hours later, in a brief essay posted on one of Cuba's state websites, Fidel Castro said Obama was "honest" in his ideas.

Whatever Castro's goal now, it is certainly not confronting difficult and complex truths or reflecting deeply on the course of his life.

Mr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of State Council of Cuba, receiving a warm welcome when staying at the Hotel.

A stronger-looking Fidel Castro said his recovery from an intestinal ailment was "far from a lost battle" .

Castro said it was another assault on Cuba's sovereignty by a hypocritical imperialist bully.

So says Fidel Castro this week in the latest of a series of articles published in Granma, the official Communist Party newspaper.

Fidel Castro turns 80 later this month. He has appeared increasingly frail in recent years and is rumored to have Parkinson's disease.

Some commentators have suggested that what Mr Castro says or does these days should not be taken too seriously.

During the Cold War, Soviet-ally Castro funded guerrilla wars against pro-U. S. governments in Nicaragua, Bolivia and El Salvador.

Later in the video, Chavez was even more optimistic, saying Castro had already won the battle to recover his health.

Anti-Castro hard-liners in the U. S. oppose the idea, saying it will only give the communist regime an economic crutch.

Hung: The Sporting Gijon Castro broke the door, you can do is sigh, and then sigh.

Why don't we just leave these people alone? If Saddam was a dictator then our neighbor Castro is a dictator too.

Because of the operation , Mr. Castro handed power to his brother, Raul and has disappeared from the public scene, ever since .

U. S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was asked if the end of Fidel Castro's rule would prompt an end to the decades-old U.

During his three-day visit Jimmy Carter held talks with the Cuban leader Raul Castro, as well as leading dissidents.

Reaction from around the world to the retirement of Cuban President Fidel Castro has been mixed and cautious.

In Miami, critics of the Cuban government welcomed the news of Mr. Castro's resignation early Tuesday.

Spanish surgeon who examined Mr. Castro last month told reporters the Cuban leader was slowly recovering and wanted to return to work.

After they were rumbled, many voters decided that Mr Castro was too immature to be mayor.

In the early 1950's, Mr. Castro and his brother, Raul, began organizing a militant group to oppose the Batista government.

Installing moderate civilian politicians in government, Mr Castro named himself head of the armed forces.

Mr Castro noted that public discussion on raising the retirement age should not be open-ended.

This year, Mr. Castro plans to invite his colleagues to join the dragon boat competition during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Lula had a penchant for embracing dictators, from Cuba's Fidel Castro to Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

As it happens, Mr Castro's twin brother, Joaquin, is a member of the Texas House.

Since the July 2006 surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding after 4 years Castro has not appeared in public.

Fidel Castro has since appeared in official photographs and videos and regularly is credited with essays on international themes.

President Raul Castro of Cuba has sacked the cabinet minister responsible for basic industry including oil and nickel production.

The former United States President Jimmy Carter has held talks in Havana with the Cuban leader Raul Castro.

The big exception remains the gerontocratic dictatorship of the Castro brothers in Cuba.

Castro appreciated the great achievements of China's economic and social development.

Fidel Castro is no exception to this flaw inherent in remakes.

Cuba ranked the lowest overall due to the Castro government's dominant control over access to the Internet.

Cuba had Castro, Israel had the Palestinians, colonial India had Ghandi, and the US had their native American tribes.

The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by Cuban government since President Raul Castro was elected in February.

The editorial marks Mr. Castro's first mention of his health in months.

Having won power, Mr Castro had no intention of giving it up.

In late June, Castro-Wright was transferred to global sourcing, and Simon, the chief operating officer for Walmart U. S. , took over as CEO.

In fact there seems little chance of either of the two Castro brothers disappearing from the political scene in the near future.

Sanchez says he does not believe a transition to Raul Castro will bring immediate change to the lives of Cuba's 11 million people.

But now salvation is literally at hand, thanks to Rude Hand Gestures of the World, by Romana Lefevre, with photographs by Daniel Castro.

David Rieff, in his book on Miami Cubans, says many families never forgave Castro this humiliation of their patriarchs.

A small boy had become a pawn in the never-ending struggle against Castro.

Mr Castro's guerrilla army relied for its survival and eventual success on a range of allies, including trade unions and other urban groups.

Noli de Castro noted that bilateral relationship has reached its highest level in history and entered its prime time for development.

DOUBLE OOPS: Mr Castro is now claiming he was misunderstood.

Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution: . . .

The Cienfuegos refinery represents Cuba's Castro-led past and its unknown future.

Castro told delegates that Cuba will gradually cease the distribution of subsidized food through ration cards.

Mr Castro, ailing and aged 81, this week announced his retirement from the posts of Cuba's president and its "commander in chief" .

Fidel Castro, former president, recently praised China's "rectifications" and told university students: "China is worth studying. "

Fidel Castro gave a televised interview, the former Cuban president's first public appearance in four years.

The officials were from a Congressional black caucus delegation which met President Lahu Castro on Monday.

His brother and designated successor Raul Castro will assume presidential powers and lead Cuba's Communist Party.

Fidel Castro has not held a meeting with a foreign leader since November 28.

The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.

For decades under Mr Castro, Cuban dissidents said that the country's communist system was hurting its people and wrecking its economy.

Castro has sent hundreds of doctors and educators to Venezuela, which in turn has helped keep the Cuban economy afloat with cheap oil.

The test had always been whether they would back a revolt against Castro.

In 1958 Fidel Castro and his men encamped in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, in southwestern Cuba, several hundred miles from Havana.

Soon they move to the San Francisco Castro street, manages a photographic equipment store with joint forces.

He and others in the exile community often gather at Little Havana's famed Versailles Restaurant - a hub of anti-Castro politics.

Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist?

Fidel Castro was criticing of you for denying the Holocaust.

He then moved on, revealing a last greeter who had been invisible behind him: Fidel Castro.

A Cuban-American from Miami, she even once called for the assassination of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

He later worked for the CIA to undermine Fidel Castro and assist Nicaragua's right-wing Contra guerrillas.

Since the July 2006 surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding after 4 years without Fidel Castro appeared in public.

Castro was making America look foolish and the President look powerless.

Winston Churchill and Fidel Castro fed the mystique, but it is Chinese smokers who could ultimately save the Cuban cigar.

While Vice President, Nixon allegedly organized an ill-fated convert plan to assassinate Fidel Castro.

But, while castro meet the beautiful girl, his love of the fire was lit up.

Raul Castro presumably will be named to succeed older brother Fidel as first secretary, but it is unknown who will be tapped to be No. 2.

Former U. S. diplomat and Cuba expert Wayne Smith says Mr. Castro's actions turned Cuba into an international player.

The remote area was once a secret refuge of Fidel Castro, where the Cuban leader used to love to go to swim.

Many of the fighters were bearded and wearing green fatigues - a style that would come to define Mr. Castro's appearance.

What may count for more is that Mr Castro is increasingly preoccupied by his legacy.

Ed's a freelance marketing consultant who lives in the Castro, a predominant gay neighborhood in San Francisco.

Castro is notorious for his powerful, lengthy speeches.

Mr Castro called on Cubans to work better and harder to meet the challenges ahead.

Castro seems very agreeable, friendly with Stone and working through his interpreter.

a form of communism developed in Cuba by Fidel Castro.

Although he is retiring as president, Fidel Castro remains first secretary of the Communist Party.

Raul Castro said that Cuba's socialism should not be "egalitarian. "

Mr. Castro needs to get his economy humming in a way that can unleash the entrepreneurial spirit.

As a proponent of Cuban democracy told me, "It proves that Biscet really got under Castro's skin. "

Cuba's Communist party newspaper published a quote from Mr. Castro Tuesday, saying he will not accept another term as president.

A man reads the pro-government newspaper Granma Behind him is billboard of leaders Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos in Havana on Jan.

Castro showed great interest in this, carefully listened to the remarks and raised questions on some issues from time to time.

Most exiles long assumed that when Castro died, Cuba would automatically go democratic.

My producer Jo Kent emphatically stated our case. Photographer Miguel Castro kept his cool.

What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?

"As much as we desire to solve every problem, we cannot spend more than what we have, " Mr Castro said.

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro during an address in Cuba after Batista was forced to flee.

Castro, who turned 85 on Saturday, has expressed regret in recent years for the treatment of gay people during that period.

Now, at last, Mr Castro is showing signs of boldness. Over the past few weeks he has launched some potentially far-reaching changes.

Castro stood, appeared alert and was shown drinking juice in the 10-minute video clip.

The finale of the festival is the short film competition at the Castro.

He only represent a small minority of discontents exiled tibetan monks. He should copy the example of Fidel Castro and just retire .

But Mr Obama's policies towards Cuba may be influenced by reforms which Raul Castro promised to bring in by next month.

Castro also expressed his gratitude for the support and assistance offered by the Chinese government and people.

Mr Castro-Wright, for instance, came from Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary, now the largest retailer in the country.

The war engulfed the whole country and Mr Castro's rebels took Havana on the first of January, 1959.

Raul Castro has moved cautiously on reforms, but has consistently described the need to overhaul the Cuban economy.

President Bush denounced the regime of Cuban President Fidel Castro, saying its end is near.

Jiang first thanked Castro's warm invitation and expressed the gladness to visit Cuba again.

"Today we face the consequences of not having a reserve of substitutes ready, " Castro said.

Mr Castro recently presided over low-key ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution.

But Mr Castro is in the late evening of his life.

The Bush administration says it is not interested so long as either Castro brother is in power.

Castro's case is currently waiting to be settled.

The Castro security goons pounced, raining rocks and using iron bars on the unarmed ladies.

When the revolutionaries regrouped in Mexico Mr Chanes de Armas found himself, naturally, at Mr Castro's feet.

On his first diplomatic visit to South America in April 1989, Gorbachev met with Fidel Castro in Havana.

Mr. Castro quickly gained attention through his rousing speeches.

For more than four decades, U. S. policy has stood in opposition to Mr. Castro's communist rule.

Before finally leaving Cuba, Miss Castro sought asylum at the same embassy.

Fidel Castro gained two degrees - one of them his doctorate - and became a lawyer in Havana.

Cuba and the US, where Wikipedia was created, have been at odds since a 1959 revolution put Fidel Castro in power.

Over a generator's hum Marcelo Castro, 48, the site manager, exuded patriotic pride.

Don't buy Castro's memoir expecting insightful reflection on questions like these.

Most are considered anti-communist, much in the way Cubans living in Miami have long rejected the Castro regime.

Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times.

FOR most of Fidel Castro's 49 years in power, American policy towards him has been as inflexible as his own.

Eugenio de Sosa Chabau was tortured 14 times by a man named El Enfermero, "The Nurse, " for his opposition to Castro's rule in Cuba.