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  Cuban army called key in any post-Castro scenario
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News DateTuesday, August 15, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's armed forces, a one-time guerrilla outfit that became the communist country's most efficient and business-savvy institution, will play a crucial role whatever happens after Fidel Castro, experts on Cuba say.

With their commander, Defense Minister Raul Castro, now taking over at least temporarily from his brother Fidel Castro as president, the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) are virtually running the country, they said.

"We have the head of the armed forces as the head of state," said Hal Klepak, a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and author of a book on the FAR
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