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Georgie Anne Geyer Biography
Georgie Anne Geyerforeign correspondentBorn: 4/2/1935Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. After graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1956, Geyer won a Fulbright…Fulgencio Batista
Name at birth: Ruben Fulgencio Batista y ZaldivarFulgencio Batista grabbed power twice in Cuba by military coup, and ruled the small nation from 1933 to 1944, then again from 1952 until he was…Hugo Chavez
Name at birth: Hugo Rafael Chávez FriasHugo Chavez was the elected strongman of Venezuela who took office in 1999 and remained there until his death from cancer in 2013. Chavez was the son of…Daniel Ortega
Name at birth: José Daniel Ortega SaavedraDaniel Ortega has been Nicaragua's most internationally-famous political figure since the 1980s. He has twice been elected the country's president: in 1984…Gabriel García Márquez
Name at birth: Gabriel José de la Concordia García MárquezColombian writer Gabriel García Márquez won a Nobel Prize in 1982 for a body of work that includes the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.…Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio is the anti-tax, small-government conservative who was elected as a U.S. senator from Florida in 2010 and then ran for U.S. president in 2016. Marco Rubio's parents left Cuba in 1956, a…May 2002
WorldUN Drops Plans for Jenin Fact-finding Mission (May 2): Secretary General Kofi Annan disbands team that would have investigated deadly Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp after…Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters was the veteran broadcaster whose TV career extended from her prominent 1970s interviews with world leaders through her 21st-century successes with the morning show The View. Barbara…2008 Year in Review - People in the News
Top events for the nation and the world People in the News 2008 People in the News Gordon Brown • Fidel Castro • Hugo Chavez • Hillary Clinton • Radovan Karadzic…Andy Garcia
Name at birth: Andrés Arturo Garcia-MenendezMovie star Andy Garcia is a Cuban American leading man known especially for his Oscar-nominated role as Vincent Mancini, the hot-headed nephew from Francis…Trending
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