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Caribbean & Central America - December 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
Without Fidel, Cuba eyes up Trump
After nine days of mourning, Fidel Castro was interred in Santiago de Cuba on 4 December, close to the remains of Cuba’s independence hero, José Martí – the plain boulder chosen for the Revolutionary’s leader’s final resting place standing in marked contrast to a decorative chapel built in honour of Martí. The 85-year old President Raúl Castro cut a solitary figure as he placed his brother’s ashes in the tomb and many Cubans have voiced their own feelings of loss, tinged with foreboding about the future, as the shadow of the incoming US president, Donald Trump, looms large over the island.
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