Valdes was close ally of Castro brothers and helped found Cuba's notorious intelligence apparatus.
Cuba’s Communist Party approves opening economy in unprecedented moveThe emergency economic package comes amid an ongoing US pressure campaign that has left the island nation reeling.
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