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Weekly Report - 18 August 2016 (WR-16-32)
CUBA: Fidel Castro turns 90, the Revolution clings on
Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro turned 90 on 13 August. Once Barack Obama leaves office in November, Castro will have seen 11 US presidents come and go since he first came to power in 1959; six of them have died. Raúl Castro (now 85) has pledged to step aside as president in 2018, whereupon the two brothers will have been in power almost 60 years between them.
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