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Yoani Sanchez: Questions for Barack Obama and Raul Castro: Tomorrow, President Obama's Answers
Nov 19th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
Popular diplomacy needs no memorandums or declarations of intent, it is carried on directly between people without going through foreign ministries or government palaces...Cuba remains repressive under Raul Castro, report says
Nov 18th, 2009 - cleveland
Associated PressHuman Rights Watch notes in a newly released report that Cuba's President Raul Castro has kept the "repressive machinery" in place. MIAMI -- Cuba's government remains as repressive under Raul Castro as it was under his brother Fidel...US rights group finds abuses rife in Raul's Cuba
Nov 18th, 2009 - Boston
WASHINGTON—Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president. In a report...
Human rights group says Cuba is holding scores of political prisoners
Nov 18th, 2009 - Washington Post
Scores of Cubans have been detained as political prisoners since Raul Castro assumed power three years ago, a human-rights organization reported Wednesday, suggesting...
Castro sister recounts role as CIA 'mole' in Cuba
Oct 26th, 2009 - Reuters
* Juanita Castro says Brazilian friend recruited her * Codenamed "Donna," says helped foes of Fidel Castro flee * She says Fidel "betrayed" Cuba revolution with communism MIAMI...
Raul Castro videos from YouTube:
2:37Cuba's future with Raul Castro - 19 Feb 08
As Fidel Castro's leadership comes to an end, Raul, his younger brother is likely to formally become the next president. Al Jazeera's Dave Marsh looks at what this might mean for the future of Cuba.
1:33Raul Castro sings in Chinese for chinese guests
China's president signed more than a dozen trade deals with communist ally Cuba. Raul Castro sang parts of a song about China and Mao Zedong, he learned while travelling the world in 1953.
7:08MARIA ELVIRA LIVE 04 23 2009 RAUL CASTRO
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2:40Cubans react to Raul Castro's 'reforms' - 30 Apr 2008
Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports from Havana on the easing of some restrictions by Raul Castro in a series of reform packages for Cuba. Investment and private enterprise was till recently ...
Raul Castro from WikiPedia:
Brigadier-General (retired) Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is the President of the Cuban Council of State and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba. The younger brother of Fidel Castro, he is also Second Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), and Commander in Chief (Maximum General) of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Air Force).
On 31 July 2006, Raúl Castro assumed the duties of President of the Council of State in a temporary transfer of power due to Fidel Castro's illness. According to the Cuban Constitution of 1976, Article 94, the First Vice President of the Council of State assumes presidential duties upon the illness or death of the president.
Raúl Castro was elected President at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly as Fidel Castro had announced his intention not to stand for President again on February 19, 2008.
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