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Cuba - Castro addresses nation over elections
Cuban president Fidel Castro has praised the results of the recent general elections. In a nationally televised broadcast on Friday night (16/01), Castro said the results were particularly extraordinary because of the especially hard...
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SWITZERLAND: GENEVA: CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in Geneva to address meetings of the U-N health agency and the World Trade Organisation.
Castro met World Trade Organisation (W-T-O) Director-General Renato Ruggiero in Geneva on Sunday on the...
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Cubans react to news that Fidel Castro met US delegation
1. Wide shot Old Capitol building
2. Traffic
3. People walking on Prado Avenue
4. Zoom out man reading newspaper headline reading (Spanish): "Meeting with Barbara Lee and Other Members of the Black Caucus"
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Davis...
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Reax as further freedoms from strict state control are introduced
1. Wide shot of Havana's Capitol building, traffic and people on street
2. Mid of pedestrians
3. Mid shot "Reforms Guidelines" edition on sale
4. Wide shot woman buying publication
5. Wide shot kiosk selling publication and people...
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+4:3 Former rebel commander turned dissident Gutierrez-Menoyo dies at 77
Havana - 26 October 2012
1. Pan right interior funeral home where funeral of Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo, late Cuban dissident, will take place
2. Close of sign at funeral home wall, reading: "Eloy Gutierrez"
3. Various of Flor Esther Torres,...
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CUBA: USA ON TRIAL FOR THE DEATHS OF OVER 3 THOUSAND CUBANS
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Cuba has charged the United States with causing the deaths of 3-thousand-478 Cubans since the start of the Cuban revolution.
Authorities in Havana are demanding more than 180 (b) billion U-S dollars in compensation for...
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ARGENTINA: LEADERS ARRIVE FOR IBERO AMERICAN SUMMIT
Spanish/Nat
Leaders from Spain, Portugal and Latin America have begun arriving in Argentina for the fifth Ibero-American summit.
During the two-day summit they are expected to issue a statement urging the United States to lift the trade...
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Cuba - Festival of youth
Cuban President Fidel Castro greeted thousands of young people from around the world at a communist-sponsored youth festival Monday (28/7) in Havana. The participants included young Americans who defied a US
travel ban.
The event is held...
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Cuban decree allows private farmers to take over unused state farmland
AP Television
June 2008 - Pinar del Rio Province,
1. Wide of oxen cart passing on rice plantation
2. Wide of workers in rice field
3. Wide of workers in rice field
AP Television
June 2008 - Havana Province
4. Close up lettuce in...
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CUBA: ANNUAL HAVANA CUP SAILING REGATTA
English/Nat
The fourth annual Havana Cup sailing regatta has taken place in Cuba.
More than 230 yachts from the United States cruised into the Marina Hemingway for the event which attracts sailors from all over the world.
Americans...
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CUBA: RALLY CALLING FOR ELIAN GONZALEZ'S RETURN
Spanish/Nat
The Cuban government on Tuesday organised another rally to call for the repatriation of Elian Gonzalez.
Elian's father and grandparents were guests of honour and were warmly received by the crowd in a theatre in Havana.
The...
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AP talks to one of 8 Cubans to undergo a government sex change
HEADLINE: Cuba's government pays for sex changes
CAPTION: It''s an about face for Cuba, a country closely aligned with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and a band of ever-macho, bearded rebels who long viewed being gay as illegal. The communist...
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Preview to the Non-Aligned Movement summit
1. Wide of media centre
2. Castro billboard reading "We're Doing Well"
3. Trade Centre (summit site) with Cuban flag on facade
4. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque entering news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Felipe Perez...
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RUSSIA: V.E. DAY CELEBRATIONS: VETERANS MARCH
Russian/Nat
President Boris Yeltsin will use Tuesday's VE Day celebrations in Moscow to enhance his political position and show off Russia's military hardware.
But the heroes of the Second World War will be staging their own celebrations...
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Thousands attend memorial on 30th anniversary of Cubana Airlines attack
Havana, Cuba - 6 October 2006
1. Wide of people marching at Colon cemetery with pictures of those killed in the bombing of a Cuban airliner 30 years ago, carrying banner saying (Spanish) "We demand justice"
2. Mid of people marching with...
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USA - Castro Supporters Demonstrate
Supporters of the Cuban President Fidel Castro marched to New
York's Times Square in driving rain on Saturday (21/10) to express
their solidarity with his communist government, and to call for an
end to the United States-led boycott of...
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Cubans react to news of Castro's temporary stepping down
1. Wide of billboard showing Cuban leader Fidel Castro
2. Wide of Malecon Avenue with sign on building
3. Close up sign reading: "Viva Fidel 80 More"
4. Wide of Malecon Avenue
5. Wide of Malecon Avenue with US Interests Section in...
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Former US general says Cuba presents "zero threat"
1. Tilt down exterior of hotel
2. Former Director White House Office of Drug Control Policy, Barry McCaffrey and member of media
3. Cutaway onlookers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Barry McCaffrey, Former Director White House Office of Drug...
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Venezuela's Chavez wishes Castro fast recovery from surgery, meets general
AP Television
1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at podium addressing business leaders
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President:
"Waking up this morning and receiving that news, you may see what feeling one would have...
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WORLDWIDE: CHE GUEVARA PROFILE
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The remains of Latin American revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara have arrived in Cuba, 30 years after his death in Bolivia.
His bones were finally brought back to Cuba after Bolivian authorities confirmed on Saturday...
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Arrivals at National Assembly before vote for Castro replacement
1. Pull out from a banner in the street reading: (Spanish) "A better world is possible"
2. National Assembly building
3. Journalist and television crews outside National Assembly
4. Interior of the assembly, some members already in
5....
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Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies at the age of 83
1. Mid of author Carlos Fuentes (second from right) sitting next to Mexican President Felipe Calderon (right) during a tribute to the writer's career
2. Fuentes greeting people
3. Wide of tribute ceremony
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos...
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Interview with the Archbishop of Havana on the Catholic church in Cuba
FILE: January 1998
1. Pull out Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II at Havana airport
FILE: April 2007
2. Zoom in Mass by Cardinal Jaime Ortega at Havana Cathedral
3. Close up of church attendees
FILE: July 12, 2007
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish)...
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Foreign Ministers Powell and Castaneda meet
1. Mexico's Foreign Minister, Jorge Castaneda and US Secretary of State, Colin Powell come out for photo
2. Jorge Castaneda and US Secretary Colin Powell shake hands
3. Leaders leave
4. Castaneda leaves State Department with Otto Reich,...