Epstein Secrets

in control of the situation, without any person or group whatsoever that visibly challenges its authority with any possibility of success. 5. After Hugo Chavez’s election to the presidency of Venezuela at the end of 1998, that oil- producing country transferred to Cuba enormous amounts of resources. The econom

the annual amount of aid at its highest point as thirteen billion dollars. 6. A quarter century after the disappearance of the Communist block, the Castro government, together with North Korea, has shown itself to be the exception to the rule: It has maintained control without renouncing the principles

at New Hark gimes /..hircti 5. 23 3 A Polarizing Figure Who Led a Movement By SIMON ROMERO CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday at 58, rose from poverty in a dirt-floor adobe house to unrivaled influence in Venezuela as its president, consolidating power

nch police agents and a Lebanese informer in Paris in 1975. "I don't care what they say tomorrow in Europe." No mentor was more supportive than Mr. Castro, who well understood how important Venezuela's subsidized oil shipments were to Cuba's fragile economy. An ally from the start of Mr. Chavez's pres

Castro since his illness, his younger brother Raul — making his first public appearance as Cuba's act- ing president — greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his arrival to celebrate Fidel's birthday. Fidel Castro, who underwent surgery for an un- specified intestinal ailment that forced him to step

o create a strategy for redeveloping the See BUDGET. 48 l• RUMORS ABOUND AMONG LOCAL COMMUNITY Cuba natives here revel in notion of life after Castro By AK M. VALDES Palm Ittcri Rut &d Writer -alai lia? ad r On left her native Cienfuegos, Cu'-'". :35 years ago. hut news that communist leader l