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Eddie Mutwe’s beard has been moved from the basement, where Runyankole lessons come with a close shave, to another location. Oh yes, his lustrous beard is currently swept under the rug.
Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died ...
Cubans and beards have gone hand in hand, or cheek by jowl, since the days of Fidel Castro's revolution, but after falling out of favor, facial hair is back -- and this time, it's not political.
Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not accept another term as president, ending the communist revolutionary's 49 years in power. The 81-year-old handed over power temporarily to ...
And Fidel himself had nothing at all to say. How long Fidel Castro would remain in Russia was anybody’s guess, for his Russian hosts were keeping his itinerary a secret.
Fidel Castro held onto power as 11 US presidents took office and each after the other sought to pressure his regime over the decades following his 1959 revolution, which closed a long era of ...
“To millions of Latin Americans, Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanés and their guitars are as much a symbol of Cuba and its revolution as Fidel Castro and his beard,” Stephen Holden wrote in ...
Fidel Castro: Played by James Franco, obvi. He has the scraggly beard. And, as we’ve already established, his ancestors hail from the same 4 million-square-mile continent as Castro’s.
Even then, they rarely mentioned their maximum leader, Fidel Castro, by name. Simply stroking one’s chin to indicate his iconic beard was sufficient.
In February of 1959 Fidel Castro became the Prime Minister of Cuba. Since then, according to the man who was charged with protecting him for most of his regime, he's survived over 600 ...
Share this article Castro was a charismatic man who commanded devotion from his cooks. Another of them, named Flores, said he was ‘everything to me, he was my entire life’.