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With his studied style, Roberto Robaina Gonzalez looks more like a manager of a rock band than a Marxist model. Yet Robaina, at 37, exemplifies the new face of Cuba. Two months ago, Fidel Castro surprised Havana by picking the man he affectionately calls Robertico, a math teacher who speaks only Spanish, as Foreign Minister. U.S. diplomats dismissed him as "dynamic but dumb." Havana's bureaucrats were speechless: in his previous job as head of the Union of Communist Youth, Robaina had wooed the young with discos and salsa music -- and those T shirts. Even Fidel had a public laugh...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, David Van Biema...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, David Van Biema...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, David Van Biema...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Edward Barnes, Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, David Van Biema...