Article: Fidel Castro's last battle: Cuba's leader struggles to survive Soviet aid cuts. (Outlook 1991) (Cover Story)

Amid the crumbling of one-party Communist rule around the globe, from its Soviet center to the longtime holdouts Albania and North Korea, can Fidel Castro's Cuba be far behind?

For now, the 63-year-old revolutionary is having none of it - and for good reason, given how his fellow Communists in Eastern Europe came tumbling down as soon as they cracked open the door to reform. But many analysts doubt that Cuba can resist change for long, and even some avowed Castro supporters wonder. "We can't eat pride," laments one Cuban as he sips coffee in a Havana cafe.

Soviet and East European aid, the prop that for three decades braced Castro against economic, ...

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