Fidel Castro Steps Down

Fidel Castro Cuba Communism
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Losing Faith
A grocery store in Havana in 1994. By the late 1980's, the passion for socialist revolution on the island had dimmed considerably. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe removed one of the last steady sources of material support.

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