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Castro: Actually, Communism Is Working Out Pretty Great for Cuba

By Carl FranzenSep 10th 2010 – 2:51PM

(Sept. 10) -- History may or may not absolve former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but one thing is certain: He is not about to absolve history, at least not when it comes a recent quote attributed to him by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who wrote that Castro told him: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us...

Castro Says 'Cuban Model' Not Working Anymore

Sep 9th 2010 – 7:58AM
Sven Creutzmann, Mambo Photo / Getty Images

Sven Creutzmann, Mambo Photo / Getty Images

HAVANA (Sept. 9) -- Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who...

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