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Cuba celebrates 50 years of Socialist Revolution
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-02 16:12

Dancers perform during the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution in Santiago de Cuba January 1, 2009. Cuba celebrated on Thursday the 50th anniversary of a 1959 revolution whose leader Fidel Castro transformed the island state that has survived despite decades of opposition from the United States and the collapse of its Cold War benefactors. [Agencies]