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May 2, 2022

Former Cuban Diplomat Ricardo Alarcón Dies at 84
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The longtime Cuban diplomat Ricardo Alarcón has died at the age of 84.
He was a student leader during the Cuban revolution who eventually
became Cuba's foreign minister and president of Cuba's National
Assembly. He played a key role in talks between the United States and
Cuba for many years. Democracy Now! spoke to him in 2015 after the Cuban
Embassy reopened in Washington for the first time in 54 years.

Ricardo Alarcón: "The real force that brought about this result was the
struggle of the peoples - first of all, the Cuban people, for having
resisted for so long time all the odds that that U.S. policy imposed
upon us, but also a victory for the rest - the resistance of the rest of
the peoples in this hemisphere, including many, many American friends."



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