Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega, leading political figure, dead at 82
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Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega, who came to leverage a rare level of political influence in Cuba for someone outside the Communist Party and played a key role in the island’s now defunct detente with the United States, has died Friday at the age of 82.