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Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz [a] (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh, [6] Latin American Spanish: [raˈul moˈðesto ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, [7] from 2011 to 2021, and ...
Geo Network was founded in May 2002 by Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. It started out with the launch of its flagship channel Geo News, in October 2002. [4] Hamid Mir joined the channel and became one of the first journalists to join Geo News. He started hosting the political talk show, Capital Talk which is the flagship show
The broadcasts featured sport, soap operas, news, cooking shows, and comedy. Censorship was imposed following the 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista, and again by the government of the Cuban revolution after their victory in 1959. [1] [2] [3] In 1958, Cuba was the second country in the world (after the United States) to begin color broadcasting. [4 ...
Whatever happened to Alejandro Castro Espín these years remains a mystery.
Juanita Castro co-wrote her memoirs and the history of the Castro family, ‘Fidel and Raúl, mis Hermanos, la historia secreta’ (Fidel and Raúl, my brothers, the secret history (Aguilar, 2009 ...
HAVANA, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama pushed Cuba to improve its record on human rights and sparred with President Raul Castro during a historic visit to the Communist-ruled ...
In January 1960, the government proclaimed that each newspaper would be obliged to publish a "clarification" written by the printers' union at the end of any articles critical of the government; thus began press censorship in Castro's Cuba. [25] Castro feared a U.S.-backed coup and in 1959 spent $120 million on Soviet, French, and Belgian weaponry.
Castro's funeral procession passing through Sancti Spíritus Province, Cuba. Castro died in Havana on the night of 25 November 2016. [383] [384] The cause of death was not disclosed. [385] His brother, President Raúl Castro, confirmed the news in a brief speech: "The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 this evening."