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Cuban president visits town near US military base
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel traveled to the town at the gates of the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday and said President Donald Trump's hardening of the US embargo would fail to force concessions from his government.
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VOICED : Manuel Marrero un ministro de Fidel es el nuevo jefe de gobierno en Cuba
El arquitecto Manuel Marrero quien se desempenaba como ministro de Turismo desde los ultimos anos de gobierno de Fidel Castro asumio el sabado el cargo de primer ministro y se convirtio en el brazo derecho del presidente Miguel Diaz...
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Analysis: Democratic candidates aim at Sanders
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Cuban doctors arrive in SAfrica to help fight virus
Over 200 Cuban doctors landed in South Africa early on Monday to assist the country in its fight against COVID-19.
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CUBA: HAVANA: HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
Spanish/Nat
President Fidel Castro challenged his critics on the issue of human rights while attending an inaugural ceremony for the recently opened international Latin American School of Physical Education 40 kilometres outside the...
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Cuba economic czar heads new generation of leaders
1. Wide of Cuban parliament sitting
2. Mid of Cuban President Raul Castro standing up and speaking with Cuban Economic Policy Commission Chairman (then Minister of Economy and Planning) Marino Murillo Jorge
3. Medium of delegates at...
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Hurricane Lili tears across Cuba and into Gulf of Mexico
Pinar del Rio
1. Man riding bike through heavy storm
2. Three women leaving destroyed home
3. Home damaged by heavy rains and wind
4. Telephone poles bent by winds
5. Two shots of heavy rain falling on road
6. Top of trees blown by...
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Venezuelan leader reacts to Pat Robertson''s comments
1. Various of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro surrounded by press at airport
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President:
"I prefer to talk about life. I prefer to talk about all the work...
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Opening of the international cigar festival
1. Mid of the Cuban Minister of International Commerce, Raul de la Nuez, cutting ribbon, officially inaugurating the Cigar Festival
2. Mid of de la Nuez and others talking
3. Close-up of sign advertising Cuban cigars reading (in Spanish)...
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USA: CUBAN EXILES VOTES MAY PROVE CRUCIAL
Span/Eng/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro may have joked that he was spending U-S election day on the beach, but Cuban exiles living in the states are by no means so indifferent to the results.
The residual bad taste left in the mouths...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE LATEST (2)
Miami, Florida, Mar 28, 2000
1. Lawyers for Miami relatives walk out of I-N-S building
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manny Diaz/Lawyer for Relatives
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Armando Gutierrez/Family Spokesman
5. Cutaway, police in...
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Food products leading growing US export market in Cuba
FILE - January 2002
1. Wide shot of first ship with U.S. goods arriving in Havana Harbour
2. Wide shot of containers being unloaded
FILE - January 2003
3. Various of people in Palco Supermarket and U.S. products on shelves
FILE -...
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Imprisoned writer released
1. Freed writer Manuel Vazquez Portal's apartment building
2. Vazquez Portal's apartment doorway
3. Vazquez Portal hugging and kissing his family
4. Vazquez Portal talking with press
5. Vazquez Portal's sister and wife
6. Francisca...
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Mixologists whip up giant daiquiri in tavern where tropical cocktail was born
Cuba's fervour for Ernest Hemingway was in full display on Saturday as islanders and visitors alike paid tribute to the Nobel laureate by mixing what they hope will be the world's largest daiquiri in Havana.
Cuban mixologists whipped up...
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Senate votes to end US travel ban to Cuba
1. Wide of senate interior during session
2. Wide shot of Senator Byron Dorgan, Senator, North Dakota
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Byron Dorgan, Senator, North Dakota
"It is not constructive at all to decide to try to slap around Fidel...
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VENEZUALA: FOREIGN ARRIVALS FOR INAUGURATION OF HUGO CHAVEZ
Spanish/Nat
Venezuela has welcomed 16 heads of state and delegations from 45 other countries for the inauguration of former coup leader Hugo Chavez as president.
Chavez, who has promised to install what he calls "a revolutionary...
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SYND 17 9 78 OPENING SESSION OF AFRO-ARAB SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE
Rhodesian leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, seeking to allay reports of a split in their ranks, shook hands in front of an international gathering in Addis Ababa on Friday and Nkomo predicted they would conquer Rhodesia by next...
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Ireland - Helms-Burton Act discussed at EU summit
The European Union (EU) on Saturday (14/12) confirmed its opposition to the United States Helms-Burton legislation. The Helms-Burton Act allows American citizens to sue foreign companies using property in Cuba that was confiscated from...
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Cuban leader accuses Bush of plotting to kill him
NB: no slate at start of story
1. Wide shot, Fidel Castro arriving Palacio de Convenciones conference hall
2. Audience clapping and chanting: "Fidel, Fidel!"
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President:
"It's what helps me be in...
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PORTUGAL: FIDEL CASTRO MEETS SPAIN'S KING CARLOS
Spanish/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro has described the arrest in London of Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet as "extraordinary" and an embarrassment for the Chilean government.
He was speaking after talks Sunday with Spain's...
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USA: CUBAN EXILES REACTION TO RELAXING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA (2)
Spanish/Nat
Cuban exiles living in America have mixed reactions to moves by the United States to relax sanctions against Cuba.
Some are openly hostile while others hope the changes will lead to a new opening of relations between the two...
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USA: NEW YORK: PRO CUBAN DEMONSTRATION
Spanish/Nat
As presidents, premiers and potentates began converging on New York for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, demonstrators took to the streets to protest at the United States embargo against Cuba.
On his first visit to...
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Communist rally to show support for Fidel
1. Crowd gathered at La Victoria park
2. Crowd facing stage and chanting
3. People on balcony with flags
4. People waving Cuban flags and chanting
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Miguel Macias, San Agustin resident:
"We are re-affirming our...
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ITALY: ROME: HOT AIR BALLOON BEARING ANTI CASTRO SLOGAN INFLATED
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A huge hot air balloon bearing an anti-Castro slogan was inflated at Rome's Coliseum on Tuesday, just one day before the Pope's historic visit to Cuba.
The protest was aimed at drawing attention to what some believe is...