Posted AT 11:30 AM EDT on 05/02/05
Fidel's master stroke
PHOTOGRAPHS BY FERNANDO MORALES, WORDS BY MARINA JIMÉNEZ
As the UN struggled with the fallout from its tainted Iraqi venture this week, Eliecer Hernandez and 15,000 other Cuban doctors were busy improving the health of Venezuela's poor and in return sending precious fuel to their beleaguered island home
BY MARINA JIMÉNEZ and FERNANDO MORALES
Berta Rabelo remembers the day her life changed forever.
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