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Cuba - Castro attends opening of CDR conference
Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Sunday (27/09) attended the opening ceremony of a 3 day conference celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution (CDR). The group was set up to ensure that revolutionary...
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New private taxis allowed for first time since '99
1. Low shot of Old Capitol building with horse and carriage and classic car taxi passing
2. Zoom out people getting out of classic car taxi
3. Medium shot classic car taxi passing in front of several parked taxis
4. Medium classic...
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Reax as Cuban television runs soap opera with gay characters
23 May, 2006
1. Wide of soap opera set with actors and cameras
2. Cameraman and soundman on set
3. Director watching actors on television monitor
4. Scene from "El Lado Oculto de la Luna" (The Hidden Side of the Moon), with...
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Dom Rep briefing during US visit
1. Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia entering press conference
2. Cutaway of photographer
3. Cutaway of cameraman
4. Wide shot of press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hipolito Mejia, Dominican Republic President:
"During my...
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SPAIN: DAUGHTER OF CUBAN LEADER CASTRO CRITICISES FATHER IN NEW BOOK
Spanish/Nat
The daughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has strongly criticised her father while promoting her new book in Spain on Wednesday.
Their relationship is a central theme of the autobiography which details Alina Fernandez's...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE: GRANDMOTHERS (2)
Spanish/Nat
Both grandmothers of the 6-year-old boy at the centre of a tug-of-war between the United States and Cuba, are campaigning in the U-S for the return of their grandson.
Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers are scheduled to meet with...
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Protest marches as political crisis continues
Tegucigalpa, Honduras - 17 July 2009
1. Wide of Zelaya supporters marching on road
2. Demonstrators shouting (Spanish) "Roberto Goriletti (referring to interim President Roberto Micheletti) out."
3. Riot police standing on side of road...
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Reax from human rights activists, locals as life continues as normal
FILE: March 2004
1. Wide of Combinado del Este prison
2. Wide of prisoners in Combinado del Este
3. Close of security watchtower at prison
4. Wide of prisoners and guards
February 19, 2008
5. Wide of dissident Elizardo Shanchez walking...
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Elian Rodriguez is 8 years old
1. Mid shot of Elian Gonzalez
2. Mid shot of Elian Gonzalez
3. Close shot of Elian Gonzalez with his cousin
4. Mid shot of Ricardo Alarcon with Juan Miguel, father of Elian Gonzalez
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ricardo Alarcon, president of...
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GRENADA: CUBAN PRESIDENT CASTRO MEETS PRIME MINISTER MITCHELL
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro, on the second day of his visit to Grenada, has met Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell and the mother of assassinated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
Grenada is one of three countries...
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CUBA: HAVANA ROCK CONCERT
English/Nat
British band Manic Street Preachers staged a rare and extremely loud rock concert in communist Cuba late on Saturday for a couple thousand fans - among them, President Fidel Castro.
Castro, 74, drew cheers from the youthful...
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Pressure grows on US to extradite or prosecute alleged plane bomber
1. Wide of news conference by A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition (Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism) and National Committee to Free the Cuban five
2. Mid of sign reading (English) "Victims of Luis Posada's Terrorism. Extradite him to...
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Latam leaders comment on President Castro's illness
1. Plane at the airport after landing and military waiting outside
2. Vice-President of Cuba Carlos Lage walking with Vice-President of Bolivia Alvaro Marcelo Garcia
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Lage, Vice-President of Cuba:
(Q: How...
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Oswaldo Paya in Mexico
1. Wide shot of PAN (National Action Party) headquarters
2. Cuban dissident, Oswaldo Paya, enters news conference with Luis Felipe Bravo Mena, President of PAN
3. Wide shot of news conference
4. Close up reporters
5. SOUNDBITE:...
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CUBA: HURRICANE GEORGE WREAKS HAVOC
Spanish/Nat
In Cuba, three people have died and over 200,000 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes following the onslaught of Hurricane Georges which is still battering some areas of the island.
Electricity lines have been...
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USA: INTERVIEW WITH FIDEL CASTRO'S SISTER JUANITA UPDATE
Spanish/Eng/Nat
In an exclusive interview with APTV, Fidel Castro's renegade sister has spoken about her brother and the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba.
Juanita Castro, who lives in Miami, left Cuba in 1963 - at odds with the Marxist...
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4:3 Venezuelan President Chavez meets Fidel Castro
Location unknown, Cuba- 28 June 2011
++Audio as Incoming++
1. Wide of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez walking and saluting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (who is not visible in this segment)
2. Chavez walking over and saluting...
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New president inaugarated
1. View of the Paraguayan flag and sign reading: The Republic of Paraguay
2. Various shots of the Legislative Palace where the inauguration takes place
3. President Gonzalez Macchi with his wife and daughter showing thumbs up to the...
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Fidel Castro likens hurricane destruction to an atomic bomb
1. Convoy of trucks carrying building materials
2. Wide of roof tiles being unloaded from trucks
3. Men unloading roof tiles from truck
4. Bulldozer lifting debris onto truck
5. Truck carrying debris driving on road
6. Wide of destroyed...
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Ceremony to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba
1. Zoom out of entrance of presidential office
2. Exterior of same
3. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and Uruguayan President Tabare Vasquez (grey suit) entering room, taking seats
4. Aides watching ceremony
5. Perez Roque and...
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Fledgling new businesses struggle through Cuba's economic changes
Havana - 21 December 2011
1. Wide exterior of pizza parlour with customers at window counter
2. Various of owner Julio Hidalgo preparing food
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Julio Hidalgo, Entrepreneur:
"After a year, yes, I was able to reach my...
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Castro's daughter Mariela calls for old dogma to be put aside
1. Wide of news conference with director of Cuban National Centre for Sex Education, Mariela Castro (daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro)
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariela Castro, director of Cuban National Centre...
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US Navy on exercise in Caribbean
1. Wide shot of water and island of St. Kitts
2. Tighter shot of St. Kitts
3. Wide shot of USS Monterey
4. Various shots of US Coast Guard training St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard officials
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Tony Crisco, US...
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Cuba - Emigrees/Cuban Gov Conference: Thaw?
The second annual conference between Cuban emigres and the
government of Fidel Castro got underway in Havana on Friday
(03/11). While the Cuban government complained of increased United
States pressure, some of the emigres said that to...