Cuban president (past and present)

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Indeed, Cuba itself might have initiated nuclear war when a US terrorist (Mongoose) team blew up a factory, killing 400 people according to Castro, at one of the most tense moments of the crisis, when the Cubans may have had their fingers on the button.

Only the long arm of the Americans and their Central Intelligence Agency could have destroyed Cayo Santa Maria and wrecked his scheme to terminate the Castro regime.

The concensus was that as soon as Castro was gone, chaos and not democracy would come to the island and to the region.

During the meeting, the Pentagon representatives stated that none of the courses of action then on the table would remove the Castro regime.

In this case it was a drive-by shooting, in broad daylight, in the Castro district, with three dozen eager and contradictory witnesses to sort out.

Not long afterward, the United States and Cuba reached an agreement by which Castro pledged to stem the exodus, and we promised to take twenty thousand more Cubans each year through the normal process.

The cult, born of Miami’s necessary demonology-according to which Castro the devil, Hannibal-the-Cannibal Castro, would eat the boy alive, would tear out his immortal soul and munch it down with a few fava beans and a glass of red wine-instantly developed a priesthood as well.

Once Castro gave a subtle tug on his good earlobe, three stocky men in guayaberas materialized to escort the voluble cleaners off the premises.

Noi intanto ci stavamo prepa­rando per fare un giro in macchina su a Sanchez, per poi svoltare a destra, e scendere giù verso Castro lungo la Diciassettesima e poi di nuovo a destra e giù verso il cinema, che in verità stava a un solo isolato da qui.

And Raymond had become totally convinced that the other surplus Castro head was only a clever movie prop, and that it was now safely suppurating in the belly of a lemon shark at a club named Hell.

But turn on the radio in Dade County and you'll realize that, after 36 years, the mere act of annoying Castro is considered a great moral victory.

It should state that Trafficante advises no Mob retaliation against Castro for nationalizing the casinos.

The note’s supposed to say that you recommend no reprisals against Castro for nationalizing the casinos.

He also secured a note from Santo Trafficante personally requesting that no Mafia reprisals be launched against Castro for nationalizing the Havana casinos.

I do not pretend that handsome presents, or places in my concerns for his nephew and natural sons, did not have their effect on him, but he was not a weak unprincipled man like this Castro, and he was capable of taking decisive action in support of his friends.