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CUBA: Back to Paradise?

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TIME

Since his return from exile two years ago ex-President Fulgencio Batista, 49, has been living quietly on an estate outside Havana. Last week Batista, who gave Cuba eleven years of “disciplined democracy” between 1933 and 1944, announced that he would run for President again in 1952. Said the greying ex-Strong Man: This island would be a paradise if it were properly governed.”

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