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Article: Brother Raul Castro steps into the breach.(Dispatches)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2006
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BYLINE: Carol J Williams
A lifelong understudy, General Raul Castro takes centre stage in Cuba as a man defined more by his contrasts with his iconic older brother than by his own performance: methodical where Fidel Castro is impulsive; awkward in public where Fidel Castro shines in the spotlight; approachable where Fidel Castro has intimidated.
In a surprise announcement on Monday night, it was said that the Cuban leader had undergone surgery for intestinal bleeding and had relinquished "provisional" power to his brother.
Chroniclers of the Cuban revolution paint a portrait of the acting president as a man at once compassionate and ruthless, ...