Saturday, September 12, 2009

NY TIMES: CUBA MOURNS COMRADE-IN-ARMS

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Roberto Luis Santana as Juan Almeida Bosque, in "Che."
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 12, 2009

Filed at 1:44 p.m. ET

HAVANA (AP) -- The death of Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president who was one of the last giants of Cuba's 1959 revolution, plunged the island into mourning Saturday and was a stark reminder of the mortality of all of Cuba's aging leaders -- including brothers Raul and Fidel Castro.

He was the first of Cuba's revolutionary leaders to die since President Raul Castro's wife Vilma Espin, a one-time guerrilla commander in her own right, passed away in June 2007 at the age of 77. (read more)
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