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Joe Chi Minh

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2. I remember the brilliant epigram of a British journalist at the time: 'He needs his father more

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 07:47 AM

Jun 2015

than he needs a Western, capitalist economy.' Words to that effect, anyway. I believe he was put up by the family of a former enforcer of Battista or Santos Traficante, the boss of the Cuban mafia.

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