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Drug runners or dissidents?

Four Cuban army officers were sentenced to death and executed after being convicted of drug trafficking in July 1989. But critics accused the communist authorities of carrying out a show trial of opponents of President Fidel Castro. Ileana de la Guardia, daughter of one of the four men executed, recalls her father's final days.

Photo: Antonio de la Guardia and President Fidel Castro (AFP)

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