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- Why Is It So Cold??!!!
- Tropical Storm Bertha
- Hearing Lakeland’s Fireworks Not The Same As Seeing Them, By George
- Time for a patriotic song.
- Crist Engaged To Rome
- Supremes: Crist Erred On Gambling Pact
- Polk Schools Dealing With High Diesel Costs
- Take trolley, streetcar to fireworks
- Isn’t it Fun to Fly?
- Hail, Gusty Winds, Possible Tornado Results From Afternoon Storms
- Portable High Definition Televisions
- Andy Martin—Remember Him?—Gets His Moment In The Sun
- There’s One Behind Every Tree …
- Tornado Warning Up For Sebring Area
On the edge of the Florida Bakery parking lot in West Tampa, the men are gathering. The voices are rising.
“There’s a lot of talk,” says Ibrain Navarro, 44, a West Tampa construction worker, in summing up the reaction to the news this morning of Fidel Castro stepping down.
“Maybe Cuba will get a little bit better. Surely they’ll be change,” Navarro adds hopefully.
He thinks Raul Castro has been in secret talks on changing relations with the United States.
“I think he’s already working on it,” Navarro says. “He’s intelligent.”
Wilfredo Baratutes, 38, a tow-truck operator from West Tampa, isn’t so hopeful.
“It won’t change anything, because Fidel resigned but his brother is still there – and he’s worse,” says Baratutes, whose parents and siblings live in the neighborhood he left 19 years ago on the outskirts of Havana. “I wish it would change things. But I don’t think so.”
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