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CNN streaming video special On July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro led a group of armed rebels in a first attack on Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship. By 1959, the Cuban revolution was complete, and the world watched as Castro brought communism to the west. Now, almost 40 years later, beyond the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, the people of Cuba find themselves in a daily struggle for a better way of life. Yet the roots of the revolution hold in Cuba's heartland, even as exiles continue to call for reform. CNN's Lucia Newman, Larry Woods and John Zarrella examine the effects of another generation's revolution on Cuban life today.

First aired October 8, 1997 The Revolution V I D E O   R E P O R T (3 min. 46 sec.) The Realities V I D E O   R E P O R T (4 min. 53 sec.) The Embargo V I D E O   R E P O R T (4 min. 25 sec.) The Exiles V I D E O   R E P O R T (5 min. 24 sec.) The Heartland V I D E O   R E P O R T (2 min. 50 sec.)

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