How could Jorge Mas Canosa have been only 58 when he died this past Sunday?

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She is right, too, that Mas Canosa was a caudillo, and not by instinct a democrat.

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Mr Mas Canosa, now dead, stripped Sintel's assets and failed to pay Telefonica.

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The death in 1997 of Jorge Mas Canosa, the most powerful leader of the hardliners, took away much of the older generation's punch.

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On this, Ms Bardach, who is a tenacious reporter, scores some points. (Mas Canosa sued her for libel, but ended up settling with the New Republic.) She interviews Luis Posada Carriles, Mr Castro's most persistent would-be assassin.

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