Cuba mourns revolution's first lady
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Acting President Raul Castro blinked back tears Tuesday as he placed a red rose before a portrait of his late wife, Vilma Espin Guillois, a guerrilla warrior and women's rights pioneer who was the first lady of the Cuban revolution.
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President Bush expressed hope that Cuba will begin a transition to democracy following the end of Fidel Castro's decades-long regime
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 11 -- When the Mass concluded with a benedictory prayer Monday afternoon, several hundred mourners mingled quietly for a moment around the glass-topped coffin of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, crossing themselves and stealing one final look at the pale visage of a man who ruled this country with an iron hand from 1973 to 1990....
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She was the long-suffering wife to one of the country's crassest presidents. But her legacy  was America the Beautified.
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US ex-presidents pay respects to Lady Bird Johnson, the late wife of ex-President Lyndon B Johnson.
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Cuba&#39;s &#39;legendary&#39; leader, Fidel Castro, broke his knee and fractured his right arm when he fell down behind the podium during a speech at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara.
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The ailing Cuban president said Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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The daughter of former Paraguayan President Raul Cubas was found dead Wednesday night, months after she was abducted in the highest-profile kidnapping in this South American country.
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Cuba and the US trade bitter words after Cuba announced it was banning the use of dollars on the island.
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Yordanka Hristova was once called "the  bride of all Cubans" and was so popular on Fidel Castro's  island that Cuban families named their daughters after her.
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Honduras named its first ambassador to Cuba in 45 years on Wednesday, completing the restoration of diplomatic ties with communist-run island that were severed during the Cold War.
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Vilma Espin, the former guerrilla fighter who was communist Cuba's most politically powerful woman, was laid to rest with full military honors Friday.
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Thousands of Nicaraguans turned out Wednesday for the funeral of former presidential candidate Herty Lewites, whose unexpected death appeared to increase the chances of Sandinista ex-President Daniel Ortega returning to power in November's election.
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Fidel Castro will play the role of Cuban communism's ideologue and elder statesman after giving up the reins of power for the first time since the 1959 revolution.
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Cuba said Thursday&#39;s death of Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat was a &quot;cause for dismay in the international community.
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Some 1,500 mourners called for revenge Friday as they buried the leader of the Sunni revolt against al-Qaida, who was assassinated by a bomb after meeting with President Bush earlier this month.
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Vilma Espin, a key figure from Cuba's Communist revolution and wife of acting president Raul Castro, dies.