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By Michael Bowman Washington, DC 30 January 2007 watch Chavez Mantle report For nearly 50 years, Cuban President Fidel Castro has been Latin America's best-known leftist revolutionary. Who will wear the revolutionary mantle in the post-Castro era? M

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