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A Profile of Cuba's Fidel Castro
Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English
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After years of frustration, Cubans have been granted a series of small but significant freedoms by their new leader, who has vowed to do away with the "excess of prohibitions" built up during half a century of communist rule. (article 1)
Since taking over from his older brother as President, Raul Castro has moved to ease some of the restrictions on the island's population. (article 1)
Now Cubans are allowed to buy some consumer goods in US dollars, including DVD players, mobile phones and computers (although not with an internet connection). (article 1)
Foreign television programmes, such as The Sopranos and Grey's Anatomy, are coming to Cuban screens for the first time, leavening the diet of official programming about the successes of tractor factories or the imperial pretentions of the United States. (article 1)
Cubans are allowed into hotels frequented by foreign tourists - and many expect the younger Castro to loosen restrictions on foreign travel for the few Cubans who can afford it. (article 1)
" Raul is no Gorbachev and no Deng Xiaoping Jaime Suchlicki said, referring to the leaders who opened up the economies of the Soviet Union and China. (article 1)
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Castro, Cuba, Raul, Cuban, Fidel |
Source articles
- Younger Castro shies away from radical change (business.timesonline.co.uk, 06/02/2008, 299 words)
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