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Article: Cubans honor Raul Castro's wife at memorial service.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2007
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Byline: Ramon Sanchez
HAVANA _ An emotional Raul Castro laid a single red rose Tuesday at the base of a huge black-and-white portrait of his late wife, Vilma Espin, who fought as a guerrilla in the Eastern mountains and later served for decades as unofficial first lady of Cuba's revolution.
Officials greeted Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, with embraces and handshakes at a ceremony at the Jose Marti Memorial. Espin, his wife of 47 years and mother of their four grown children, died Monday at age 77 from complications following a long illness. Officials did not disclose the cause of death, but Espin was said to suffer from severe circulatory ...
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Cuban Interior Ministry Colonel Alejandro Castro Espin (R) ...
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... ... R) comforts his sister Mariela Castro Espin during a homage to their late mother Vilma Espin held 19 June, 2007 at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana. Espin, wife of Cuban acting President Raul Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, died June 18th ...
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