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President Fidel Castro denounced the broadcasts as "subversive" and a violation of Cuban sovereignty. But rather than jamming TV Marti, his best revenge might be to broadcast his own long-winded speeches into the U.S. A recent blast from Cuba was heard on radios as far away as Nashville...
...latest polls show Vargas Llosa with an estimated 44% of the vote, well ahead of the closest of his three opponents, Luis Alva Castro of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Because a candidate must attract 50% of the vote to win, a June runoff is likely. Vargas Llosa is expected to prevail, but once ensconced in the presidential palace in Lima he may look back upon his campaign days with longing. His party, Libertad, is one of three parties in the Democratic Front (Fredemo) -- an unruly coalition in the best of times -- which is unlikely to win a majority...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
President Fidel Castro has not visited Brazil since 1959, the year he installed himself as Cuba's supremo. So when Castro announced that he would attend last week's inauguration of Brazil's new President, Fernando Collor de Mello, authorities there were not sure what to expect: certainly a Cuban security detachment, perhaps even a few small arms...
After more than a day of heated negotiations, the transport plane headed back for Cuba, its cargo intact; Castro's security detail was left with only handguns...