Vilma Espin, first lady of Cuban revolution, dies
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Vilma Espin, sister-in-law of convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro and one of the most powerful women in Cuba's political leadership, died on Monday in Havana. She was 77.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress who was Ronald Reagan's first wife and starred in the popular 1980s television drama "Falcon Crest," died on Monday at age 90, her longtime manager said.
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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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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a conservative political scientist who became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died at her home outside Washington late Thursday, colleagues announced today. She was 80.
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Mariela Castro EspÃ­n, daughter of RaÃºl Castro, the commander of Cubaâs armed forces, is the countryâs premier sexologist.
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President Bush on Thursday mourned the recent death of Mario Chanes de Armas, who was at Fidel Castro's side in the Cuban revolution and later spent decades as a political prisoner in the leader's jails.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s first female vice-president, Joyce Mujuru, has taken over as acting head of state during President Robert Mugabe&#39;s year-end vacation.
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The daughter of Paraguay's former President Raul Cubas was found dead on Wednesday underneath a house near the capital, nearly five months after she was kidnapped, government officials said.
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By OSCAR CORRAL  By OSCAR CORRAL  MIAMI - Picture this: Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies. Cubans board rafts and take to the seas. In South Florida, exiles board boats and head for Cuba to pick up desperate relatives.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning  Hollywood actress who was Ronald Reagan&#39;s first wife and went  on to star on the popular 1980s television drama &quot;Falcon  Crest,&quot; died on Monday at age 93.
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Vilma Espin Guillois, the wife of acting President Raul Castro and one of the communist nation's most politically powerful women, died Monday, the Cuban government announced. She was 77.
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Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, died Thursday, three days before elections to replace her son, the president&#039;s office said. She was 86.
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Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentinaâs history.
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A cousin of Mexico's first lady was found dead of gunshot wounds just outside Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who terrorized his opponents for 17 years after taking power in a bloody coup, died Sunday, putting an end to a decade of intensifying efforts to bring him to trial for human rights abuses blamed on his regime. He was 91.
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Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Panama after Panama&#39;s President Mireya Moscoso pardoned four Cubans convicted over a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Gloria Estefan left her native Cuba  when she was just a year old. Her family was allowed to take  nothing with them, except the clothes they were wearing and a  small bag.