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The U.S. treated his parents’ homeland of Cuba like a playground for decades, propping up one dictator after another until Cubans revolted and Fidel Castro took power.

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The US sanctions list is usually reserved for drug kingpins, terror operatives and dictators involved in widespread human rights abuses.

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The 41-year-old dictator has sharply reduced the number of missile tests but signaled a more confident era for North Korea.

He called deployment a “page right out of the dictator’s handbook” intended to create the conditions of unrest necessary to then send in the National Guard.

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“They do not like dictators, not domestic or foreign.”

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