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NEW Famous Cuban restaurant celebrates 40 years of serving food
1. Various of band playing Cuban music outside Versailles restaurant, at 40 year celebration
2. Close of 40th anniversary sign at restaurant
3. Mid of Versailles restaurant sign
4. Various of people waiting in line outside Versailles...
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US organisation lobby against easing of sanctions on Cuba
1. Wide shot of meeting
2. Delegates
3. Close up of armbands
4. Crowd applauding
5. Close up of at podium
6. Crowd applauding
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Allen, Republican Senator from Virginia:
"Indeed for many, many years other...
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Cuba - 40th anniversary of Communist rule
Cuban leader Fidel Castro led celebrations in Havana on Monday (12/12) to mark the 40th anniversary of the formation of his communist-backed army.
A military parade was staged in Havana's Revolution Square to mark the national holiday....
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Castro meets Sierra Leone president
1. Exterior of the Palace of the Revolution
2. Cuban flag
3. Cuban president Fidel Castro and Sierra Leone president Tejan Kabbah entering room
4. Kabbah and Castro shaking hands
5. Castro and Kabbah leaving room
6. Conference...
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Rice and commerce secretary on Cuba, reax in US interests section in Havana
Washington DC, US
1. Wide shot of US State Department Secretary Condolezza Rice entering news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Condolezza Rice, US State Department Secretary:
"The comission's second report keeps the promise that the...
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UN: NEW YORK: PROTESTERS DEMAND BLOCKADE OF CUBA BE LIFTED
English/Nat
American protesters demanded, on Tuesday, that their government's blockade of Cuba be lifted, as delegates from the stricken Caribbean island arrived for the United Nations Earth Summit in New York.
There were two separate...
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Denmark - Hot Reception For Povery-Summit Diners
Hot reception for poverty-summit diners
About 50 leftist demonstrators demanding tougher action by a global poverty forum broke down a fence and pushed close to dignitaries at a plush dinner at the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen on...
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: CUBA: BILLY ZANE
English/Nat
Hollywood film star BILLY ZANE brought a touch of glamour to a cigar auction in Cuba on Friday when he bid 150-thousand U-S dollars for a single box of cigars at a special auction.
The event in Cuba's capital Havana was...
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CUBA: HAVANA: EVANGELISTS CEREMONY
Spanish/Nat
Thousands of people gathered at Marianao Square in the Cuban capital of Havana on Sunday to hold the first public evangelical ceremony since the country's communist revolution in 1959.
The purpose of the ceremony was to...
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CUBA: CASTRO SPEAKS AT CDR ANNIVERSARY OPENING CEREMONY
Spanish/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro has attended the opening ceremony of a three day conference celebrating the 38th anniversary of the C-D-R (The Committee for the Defence of the Revolution).
The group was set up to ensure that...
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Peru - Leader of guerrillas gives interview
The leader of the guerrillas holding 72 hostages in Lima on Tuesday (04-03) rejected an offer of asylum for the guerillas in Cuba, made by Cuba's president Fidel Castro.
Residency exteriors;
sounds of the guerrillas training inside,...
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SYND 15 6 78 PRESIDENT CARTER SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON
US President Jimmy Carter speaking at a press conference in Washington.
1. cu Carter2. cu NBC reporter asking question about Cuban involvement in Africa and how to fight it SOUNDBITE (English)mcu Carter answering SOUNDBITE (English):...
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CHILE: LEADERS ARRIVE FOR SIXTH IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT UPDATE
Spanish/Nat
The leaders of 19 Latin American countries are gathering in Chile for the sixth Ibero-American summit.
The summit will focus on democratic reforms in the region - delegates will also examine ways of forging closer ties...
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Cuba: Bacardi: Rum stand-off continues.
Havana, Cuba - 22 March, 2001
1. Exterior of bar with giant bottle of Havana Club rum
2. Close up of bottles of Havana Club inside bar
3. Wide shot interior bar and people drinking in bar
4. Bar with bartender and customers
5. Close up...
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Cuba officially joins Rio Group as LatAm leaders call for end of US boycott
Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean on Tuesday agreed on the need for greater regional unity during the first of a two-day meeting taking place in the Northeastern Brazilian resort area of Costa de Sauipe.
Hosting president Luis...
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Castro's younger brother, Raul, likely to succeed him
1. Various of Jiang Zemin and Fidel Castro walking towards Chinese plane
2. MS Castro and Jiang hugging and saking hands
3. MS of Jiang Zemin and Raul Castro shaking hands
4. MCU of Jiang walking up to the plane
5. Cutway of...
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CUBA: WEAKENED HURRICANE GEORGE COMES INLAND
Spanish/Nat
A weakened Hurricane Georges has come inland over Cuba, bringing heavy rains to drought-ridden eastern Cuba.
Winds of 120 kilometres per hour hit the island on Thursday morning, claiming at least one victim.
Cuban President...
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Cuban municipal elex; govt says belies criticism Cuba isn''t democratic
1. Wide exterior of polling station
2. Ballot box been prepared for election, zoom in on ballot box
3. Candidates'' resume and photograph on window
4. Pan from man to election commission registering voter
5. Children dressed in their...
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USA: 2 CUBAN OLYMPIC BOXERS SEEK PERMANENT ASYLUM
Spanish/Nat
As athletes from around the world are preparing for the Olympic games - two Cuban boxers have quit their camp and are seeking permanent asylum in the United States.
The boxers were staying in a detention centre in San Diego,...
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Cubans react to false rumours of Fidel Castro's death
1. Wide of Old Capitol building in Havana, with road and traffic in the foreground
2. Mid newspaper vendor leaving post office
3. Vendor arranging papers
4. Zoom in to Granma newspaper headline reading: (Spanish) "Article from Fidel and...
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Preparations under way in coastal city for visit by Pope Benedict XVI
Santiago de Cuba - 10 March 2012
1. Wide of Revolution Square in Santiago de Cuba with trucks and construction workers
2. Wide of General Antonio Maceo monument in Revolution Square, stage frame for papal mass under construction
3. Mid...
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Cubans react to Fidel's apparent fainting on Saturday
1. Wide of Saturday morning Tribuna Abierta
2. Fidel entering, returning to the podium after a near faint
3. Wide of crowds waving flags and chanting Fidel, Fidel
4. Fidel mounting the platform
5. Cut away to crowds
6. SOUNDBITE...
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SYND 26 2 76 FIDEL CASTRO ADDRESSES SOVIET CONGRESS
Cuban President Fidel Castro addressing the Soviet Communist party congress.
1. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): ws Castro speaking
2. ws and pan delegates applaud
3. ws Castro speaking
Film: Rev - Sound: MAG TRK - Colour - NYFilm: c0054150A - LN...
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SOUTH AFRICA: SOWETO: CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro on paid tribute to the victims of the 1976 Soweto uprising against white rule in South Africa on Saturday.
Speaking in Soweto Castro spoke of how the children who died in there and others who...