Raul Castro takes over as Cuban leader (Reuters)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sun, 02/24/2008 - 3:28pm

A photograph of Cuba's retired leader Fidel Castro hangs in the window of a press office in Havana February 23, 2008.<br /><br />REUTERS/Claudia DautReuters - Cuba's new leader Raul Castro vowed it would remain a bastion of revolution as he took over on Sunday from his brother Fidel Castro, who resisted half a century of U.S. attempts to oust him.




 

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