n Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph on January 8, 1959, placards (Gracias Fidel), television cameras, and bell ringers were ready. But there was no need to fake what one American reporter called "the magic of his personality." His political skills would help make him the longest-surviving head of government in a major nation after North Korea's Kim R Sung and Jordan's King Hussein.
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At the age of 62, Fidel Castro seems to be outliving the forces that helped establish...