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Cuban who banned Beatles dies

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Reuters reports that the man who banned the Beatles from communist Cuba’s radio and television stations has died.

According to the wire service, Cuban state television reported Tuesday that Jorge ‘Papito’ Serguera had died at the age of 76.

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Serguera, who at the time was president of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, pulled Beatles music from the airwaves in the 1970s, but he later acknowledged that he enjoyed listening to it in private.

Read the full Reuters report here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

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