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Cuba celebrates Fidel Castro’s birthday with what the late leader most enjoyed

August 14, 2017

Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald
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Cuba celebrated what would have been the 91st birthday of late leader Fidel Castro with a museum dedicated to denouncing “aggressions” lobbed by the United States during the more than six decades of rule by the Castro brothers.

“This is the work of our country facing the aggressions of the empire. Here is, on one hand, American evil, and on the other, the heroism and triumph of an entire people,” Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Sunday in Havana during the official opening of the Memorial of Denunciation, which is housed in the former museum dedicated to the Ministry of the Interior.

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