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Castro looks for a U.S. lifeline

September 22, 2008

By Mary Anastasia O’Grady | Wall Street Journal Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike inflicted misery on millions of Cubans. But when the Castro dictatorship looks at the devastation, it sees opportunity. Fidel Castro and his brother Ra

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150 mph winds tear through Cuba

August 31, 2008

Via AP: Gustav howled into Cuba’s tobacco-growing western tip as a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane on Saturday while both Cubans and Americans on the Gulf Coast scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm. Forecasters said Gustav was just short of becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane as it hit Cuba’s mainland after passing [...]

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