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Castro's health crisis could transform island, exiles here

In a stunning development, Cuban leader Fidel Castro temporarily ceded presidential power to brother Ra�l Castro due to ''an intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding'' that required ''complicated surgery,'' according to a letter read Monday night on Cuban television. In South Florida, where the Cuban exile community has awaited such news for decades, word of Monday night's developments swept through the region and something very close to jubilation reigned in Little Havana and elsewhere.

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