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Famed Cuban cigar-making king Jose "Cueto" Castelar is looking to almost double his previous Guinness World Record cigar by rolling one over 229 feet long.
HEADLINE (48 characters): Raw Video: Rolling the world's longest cigar
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CAPTION: (255 characters): Famed Cuban cigar-making king Jose "Cueto" Castelar is looking to almost double his previous Guinness World Record cigar by...
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Dissident Soler calls for world action against Havana government
1. Pan of Cuban dissident Berta Soler (wearing white) entering news conference room
2. Wide of news conference room, audience clapping
3. Wide of Soler receiving an award
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Berta Soler, Cuban Dissident:
"We, Ladies...
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Korea - North-South: Relations Improve, USA/Cuba: Havana: Elian Gonzalez (Cuban Boy), Mexico:Mexico City: Election
Fanfare being played and vast crowd in square
South Korean president Kim Dae Jung
Kim Dae Jung along and greeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il
The two leaders along and crowd waving flags
Leaders joining hands in air for...
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Interpol recognizes Cuba's commitment against terrorism
16 January
1. Ronald Noble, Secretary General of Interpol, arriving at briefing
2. Various audience
3. Noble at podium
File - December 2001
4. National Assembly vote on 12 new protocols to Cuba's terrorism laws
5. Fidel Castro...
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WRAP Where is Raul Castro after being handed power?
1. Havana skyline
2. Street scene
3. Police officer
4. Wide shot police in street
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alain Diaz, Student:
"For me that is the most despotic thing they've done in the history of Miami. I don't understand how those...
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Contracts announced for US food supplies
30 May 2007
1. Close-up of sign reading (Spanish and English) "Commercial Negotiations Cuba-US 2007"
2. Various of conference room with Cuban and US delegates
4. Cuban and US delegates signing accord
5. Close-up of hands signing
6. Zoom...
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USA: CALLS TO END EMBARGO ON US EXPORTS TO CUBA
English/Nat
A business group is busy building support in Washington for an end to the ban on U-S medical and food exports to Cuba.
The group is lobbying lawmakers in an effort to ease the 38-year-old embargo, which they say is depriving...
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Protests outside Cuban embassy over death of dissident
1. Protesters outside the Cuban embassy in Mexico protesting the death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata
2. Protesters holding signs of Zapata
3. Police monitoring protest
4. Pan right reverse of protesters outside embassy
5....
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Meeting of club founded by Fidel to highlight long lived Cubans
Havana - 25 May 2011
1. Pull out from Cuban Flag to senior citizens posing for photo
2. Tilt up from woman holding sign reading (Spanish) "The club of the third age salutes the Satisfactory Longevity event"
3. Pull out to wide of senior...
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Cuba lifts ban that kept its citizens from staying in tourist hotels
1. Pull out from Hotel Nacional
2. Wide of Riviera Hotel
3. Pull out from entrance of Riviera Hotel
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Francisco Munoz, Havana resident:
"They are new measures, new measures that are good. It means we are prospering...
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Poll shows Chavez with overwhelming lead plus OAS on voting
1. Various of President Hugo Chavez campaign posters in streets Caracas
2. Various of opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales campaign posters in streets of Caracas
3. Set up shot IPSOS General Director Juan Zerpa
4. Wide of...
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Nation of Islam leader holds press conference
1. Wide shot Farrakhan at table in conference room of International Press Centre
2. Cutaway audience
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam minister:
"It was necessary for us to come to Cuba to learn how Cuba prepares...
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Cuban dissidents ask US Greek Orthodox leaders to deliver msg Patriarch
1. Pan left dissidents entering US Chief of Mission's home
2. Close up Vladimiro Roca and Elizardo Sanchez greeting US Interests Section Chief, James Cason
3. Leader, Greek Orthodox Church US, Archbishop Demetrios entering Cason'S...
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Fidel Castro says brother has "all legal and constitutional faculties"
1. Wide Old Capitol building in Havana and traffic
2. Traffic
3. Close-up newspaper headline reading: (Spanish) "I expect to not to embarrass myself"
4. Newspaper vendor and customer
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gisela Estevez, Havana...
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Protest against President Bush tour of South America
1. Wide of demonstrators marching towards American Chamber of Commerce
2. Mid of man with doll dressed in American flag
3. Man with face covered
4. People spray painting walls
5. People banging fence, pan to police
6. SOUNDBITE:...
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WRAP Official mourning and reaction to the death of Raul Castro's wife
AP Television
1. Zoom out Cuban flag at half mast outside the Jose Marti Memorial
AP Television
2. Wide of people lined up to pay their respects to Vilma Espin
Cubavision
Havana, Cuba - 19 June, 2007
3. Wide of memorial service for...
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France - Cuban President Pays First Visit Since 19
Cuban President pays first visit to France since 1959.
Fidel Castro of Cuba told President Francois Mitterrand in Paris
on Monday (13/3) that his groundbreaking visit to France marked
the end of "the apartheid" imposed on Cuba for 36...
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SYND 16-8-71 US VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS VISIT CUBA
Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro has urged Cubans to treat the visiting US volleyball team with "all respect and consideration".
1. mcu Castro speaking (SOUNDBITE): Spanish
2. ms audience applaud
3. gv Castro on podium - audience...
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A look at Castro's final push that toppled Batista 50 years ago
FILE: Sierra Maestra, Cuba - December 9, 2008
1. Zoom out from Sierra Maestra mountains
2. Mid of sign reading (Spanish) "Historic Pathway. La Plata Command Headquarters"
3. Zoom out from man riding donkey on pathway
4. Tilt up of Luis...
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Cubans react to US Senator's retirement
File
1. Various shots of anti-Helms graffiti
Havana, 22 August 2001
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Felipe Perez Roque, Cuba's Foreign Relations Minister:
"Well, I think that he should have done it a long time ago. Not so much because of his...
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USA: CUBAN BOY ELIAN SEIZURE: MIAMI REACTION
English/Nat
The Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez have accused the U-S government of using excessive and unreasonable force in a raid on their Little Havana home.
U-S federal agents seized the six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian...
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Preparations in Camaguey as Hurricane Ike arrives
1. Various of people boarding up store
2. People getting gas
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juan Rosabal, Gas station attendant:
"The preparations are going pretty well, we've done everything in order not to have any damage."
4. Various of...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Cuban President, Fidel Castro, let bygones be bygones on Sunday when he held remarkable meeting former Dominican Republic strongman, Joaquin Balaguer.
Castro, a loyal Communist and 92-year-old Balaguer, a conservative who...
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FRANCE: CUBAN DISSIDENT ACCUSES CASTRO OF CHE GUEVARA'S DEATH
Spanish/Nat
A Cuban dissident who was one of Fidel Castro's top officials has accused the Cuban leader of sending legendary revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara to his death in the Bolivian jungles in 1967.
Dariel Alarcon Ramirez, who...