Fifty Years On, Cuba Still In Grip Of Revolution

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From Reuters:

HAVANA (Reuters) - Fifty years after Fidel Castro led a band of rebels to victory over a U.S.-backed dictator, his revolution goes on, Cuba firmly in its grip, in what some view as a triumph and others a tragedy.

That it has survived may be its greatest accomplishment, given five decades of unstinting opposition and an economic embargo from the nearby United States.

Fidel Castro, 32 when he took power on January 1, 1959, has become a sick old man, many of his fellow Cold War leaders have died and Communism has almost disappeared around the world.

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