Cuba revolution anniversary

Jan 02 - Castro says Cuba revolution faces years of struggle.

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Cuba's revolution is stronger than ever but faces "incessant struggle" against the threat of the United States, President Raul Castro said on Thursday (January 1) in a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the uprising that its leader, Fidel Castro, was too ill to attend. Documentaries of the war and highlights of the revolution were shown to mark the occasions. Raul Castro, who replaced his older brother as president in February, spoke from below the same balcony in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba where Fidel Castro declared victory in 1959. Seventy-seven year-old Raul Castro praised his brother as "indispensable" and quoted passages from several past speeches. Celebrations have been subdued with Cuba mired in economic problems and divided on what the revolution has achieved.

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