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Weekly Report - 08 December 2016 (WR-16-48)
CUBA: Defending the Revolution
“Before the remains of Fidel, in the square of the Revolutionary Major General Antonio Maceo, the heroic city of Santiago de Cuba, we vow to defend the homeland and socialism…Whoever tries to take over Cuba will collect the dust of its soil flooded with blood, if he doesn’t die first,” President Raúl Castro pledged at the final public ceremony for his brother and leader of the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro was interred at a private ceremony the following day, closing a huge chapter in Cuban life but not, as Raúl emphasised, ending the Revolution.
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