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article_snippet.sent: Caribbean country into a close alliance with the Soviet Union.
article_snippet.sent: However, Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas said civic groups .
article_snippet.sent: communist-run Cuba from a U.S. list of countries that it says .
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article_snippet.sent: Cuba one-party political system.
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