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title: ""Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold…"
date: 2016-11-26
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships updated his status.
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# "Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold…

*November 26, 2016 · Facebook*

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\"Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba's maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died on Friday. He was 90.\"\
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\-- NYT lede for Fidel Castro obituary\
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\"Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the brutal dictator who repressed and reshaped Chile for nearly two decades and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption, died yesterday at the Military Hospital of Santiago. He was 91.\"\
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\-- NYT lede for Augusto Pinochet Ugarte obituary
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