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Reporter Claims Cuba’s Raúl Castro Told Her He Will Step Down in 2018
Breitbart ^ | 13 Apr 2015 | by Frances Martel

Posted on 04/13/2015 9:16:35 AM PDT by yuffy

A Costa Rican journalist reports that Cuban dictator Raúl Castro claimed at the Summit of the Americas this past weekend that he will step down as head of state in 2018 and implied that Cuba may hold elections to replace him.

Glenda Umaña, an 18-year veteran of CNN who left the network in November 2014, was working at the Summit on behalf of the Panamanian network Telemetro, though she issued her short report on Castro via Facebook. “He told me that he would remain in power until 2018, and I asked him if there would be elections then, to which he replied: ‘there have always been elections in Cuba,” she wrote on the social network page. She also writes that he claims not to be interested in ever visiting Washington, D.C., but that he would like to see Miami.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; raulcastro

1 posted on 04/13/2015 9:16:35 AM PDT by yuffy
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To: yuffy

Yeah, right. And I’m retiring in 2026, maybe.


2 posted on 04/13/2015 9:27:05 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: yuffy

Too late — Obama already surrendered to the Cuban Communists


3 posted on 04/13/2015 9:56:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yuffy

You can trust him, he’s not like the others.


4 posted on 04/13/2015 10:07:57 AM PDT by AU72
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