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CUBA: HAVANA: CHRISTMAS EVE CELEBRATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Christmas is making a comeback in communist Cuba.
For nearly three decades, Christmas Eve was just another night before just another work day in the officially atheist country.
Christmas as a national holiday disappeared in...
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Brazilian president visits, meets Cuban president
1. Wide of Brazilian presidential airplane taxiing at Jose Marti International Airport
2. Mid of Cuban delegation walking toward plane; Minister Ricardo Cabrisas salutes to camera
3. Pull out of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da...
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USA: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT CUBA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has announced plans allowing a significant expansion of cash transfers from private Americans to needy Cubans.
The proposals also includes U-S food sales to Cuba on a limited basis...
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US to allow Americans to send cell phones to Cuba
1. Wide shot US President George W. Bush walks up
2. Cutaway US Senator Mel Martinez R, Florida and US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R, Florida
3. SOUNDBITE:(English) George W. Bush, US President
"Since Raul is allowing Cubans to own...
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SPAIN: MADRID: PROTEST AGAINST LAUNCH OF ANTI-CASTRO ASSOCIATION
Spanish/Eng/Nat
A mob of protesters vented their anger at the launch of an association dedicated to lobbying against Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro in Madrid, Spain on Thursday.
Speakers and guests arriving for the meeting were...
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Castro on US Interest Section in Havana
1. Wide shot voting area
2. Mid shot Cuban President Fidel Castro voting
3. Wide shot National Assembly
4. Mid shot official
5. Castro standing
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba:
"Anyone can see that this is a...
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International rum festival
Havana City, June 7 2004
1. Zoom in "Morro" Castle
2. Soldiers dressed in Colonial-era uniforms marching
3. Wide shot soldier lighting cannon
4. Medium shot same
5. Zoom out Alejandro Roca, Cuban Food Industry Minister, cutting...
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State Dept on visa problems for Cuban Grammy nominees
Washington DC - 02 September 2003
1. US State Department spokesman entering briefing room
2. Cutaway of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Boucher, US State Department Spokesman:
"This is a complicated situation, we all know that...
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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
Natural Sound
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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+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: 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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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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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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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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Castro's message congratulates Chavez on his victory
1. Wide of newspaper stand
2. Man selling newspapers
3. Newspapers "Granma" and "Juventud Rebelde" with headline reading: "Message from Fidel for Chavez"
4. Cuban leader Fidel Castro's signature at bottom of page reading "the Cuban...