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Article: Ramiro Valdes Menendez and his role in Raul's regime.
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- CubaNews
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- September 1, 2008
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For those Cuba-watchers who refuse to accept any notion of reform or improvement under the present leadership of Raul Castro and are still anchored in past assumptions and stereotypes, the political comeback of Ramiro Valdes Menendez is the absolute confirmation that Cuba is not moving ahead, but backwards.
The phrase "the dreaded former interior minister" crops up in every analysis or prediction on Cuba. But who, really, is this man nicknamed Ramirito?
Born in 1932 and raised in Artemisa (at that time part of Pinar del Rio province, but now located in the province of La Habana), Valdes was the youngest warrior who attacked the Moncada barracks on July ...
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... ... Castro rule, revolutionary Cuba has never experienced a military ... Rosales del Toro, 65, controls Cuba's economically important sugar ... world-famous cigars abroad. Ramiro Valdes, 75, one of only three men ... prompt him to allow openings in Cuba's economy once he is permanently ...
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