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Cuba's communist government sends message of continuity
 Cuba's communist government sent a clear message to its people Thursday: Nothing is going to change. "The revolution will continue" was the mantra chanted on state-run television and displayed in government newspapers three days after Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his younger brother Raul while recovering from surgery.| "¡La Revolución es estable! Viva larga la Revolución!" |
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The acting president was still nowhere to be seen. Nor was the elder Castro, who turns 80 on Aug. 13. Yet the news media all are run by the state lined up Cubans to express confidence both in Fidel Castro's ability to recover quickly and in Raul Castro's competence to govern in the meantime. "Certain of your rapid recovery, always toward victory!" a graduating class of Interior Ministry cadets chanted in a collective greeting to Fidel Castro, published on the front page of the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde. "Every Cuban trusts Raul, and every one of our leaders," an unnamed woman said on state television's midday broadcast. "We are certain that the revolution will continue."
Posted by: Fred 2006-08-04 |
