Fidel Castro's death underscores end of era of hostility with United States

Record ID: 77342

  • Title: Fidel Castro's death underscores end of era of hostility with United States
  • Date: 26th November 2016
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES (RECENT - JULY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, JULIA SWEIG, SAYING: "Raul Castro inherited the presidency in 2008 from his brother Fidel, and has undertaken inexorable policies to transform the Cuban economy, to rewrite the social contract, to make it possible for the legacy of the revolution to be sustained. And sustaining the most important legacies of the revolution, education, social welfare, health care, a capacity to have an autonomous foreign policy meant settling this long-term enmity with Washington."
  • Embargoed: 11th December 2016 09:52
  • Keywords: Castro Cuban revolution Barack Obama embassies John Kerry normalisation Cold War Raul Castro
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  • Country: Cuba
  • Topics: Government/Politics
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