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President Fidel Castro hosts Haiti President-elect Rene Preval
1. Wide interior of Palace of the Revolution, with Rene Preval, Haitian President-elect and Fidel Castro, President of Cuba walking in front of flags
2. Close-up of Fidel Castro
3. Medium of Preval and Castro shaking hands and...
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Cuba - Fidel Castro appears at the Communist Party Congress
Cuba - Fidel Castro appears at the Communist Party Congress
Havana, 19 April 2011
1. Fidel Castro aided by bodyguards entering the congress, delegates applauding
2. Fidel Castro and president Raul Castro standing listening to anthem and...
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US Delegation arrives in Havana, meet with Cuban FM
1. Wide of bus arriving at Cuban Foreign Ministry
2. Mid of US Representatives Jim Flake and William Delahunt walking up steps
3. Mid of Flake and Delahunt entering Foreign Ministry
4. Mid of Flake and Delahunt inside ministry
5. Various...
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Cuban expats welcome news as Castro temporarily steps down, newspapers
1. Wide of traffic on street
2. Various of Miami Herald newspaper headline (English: "Castro Cedes Power")
3. Close up of Spanish Language newspaper, el Nuevo Herald, headline (Spanish: "Castro Cede el Poder"
4. Police officers...
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Vatican emissary visits monastery
1. Various of exterior of Monastery "Carmelitas Descalzas" in Havana
2. Cars of Vatican delegation arriving
3. People watching outside monastery
4. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and Vatican delegation entering the...
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President Vazquez visits, places wreath at independence monument
17 June 2008
1. President of Uruguay Tabare Vasquez arriving at Jose Marti International Airport and being greeted by Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque
18 June 2008
2. Wide of Honour Guard carrying wreath in front of Vasquez...
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Fidel Castro says he didn't expect to live this long after 2006 illness forced him from office
date/location unknown
1. STILL: Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro speaking into a microphone as he points with his index finger
2. STILL:Castro with his hand resting on the side of his head
3. STILL: Castro holding his chin
Havana -...
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Bolivian President-elect meets Castro
1. Evo Morales, Bolivian President-elect, getting off aeroplane and being greeted by Cuban President Fidel Castro
2. Wide of honour guards with Cuban and Bolivian flags
3. Various of Castro and Morales standing for anthem
4. Castro...
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Cuban President Raul Castro arrives for60-nation summit
1. Wide of "Cubana" plane carrying Cuban president Raul Castro arriving taxiing on tarmac at airport
2. Pan across military officials lined up alongside red carpet in front of plane
3. Close-up of Cuban flag
4. Tilt down of Castro...
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MEXICO: CUBAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SHOT DEAD
Natural Sound
A Cuban government official was shot to death in Mexico City on Thursday, apparently after resisting a robbery attempt, according to the Mexico City prosecutor's office.
The victim - identified as Boris Valdez Lopez, 36,...
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Cuba - Celebrations
Cubans mark 142nd birthday of national hero Marti
Thousands of Cubans crowded Havana's Revolution Square on Saturday
(28/1) to mark the 142nd anniversary of the birth of national
hero, Jose Marti. President Fidel Castro led the...
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Raul Castro meets with president of Guinea-Bissau
1. Cuban military band playing at the Grand Hall at the Palace of the Revolution
2. Medium of Cuban Interim-President Raul Castro and Guinea Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira, UPSOUND military band
3. Medium of honour guard...
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Cuban leader arrives in Vietnam ahead of Non-Aligned Movement summit
1. Castro gets out of car, greeted by Vietnam's General Secretary Nong Duc Manh
2. Various of Castro and Nong Duc Manh walking
3. Wide pan across ceremony
4. Various of Castro and Nong Duc Manh walking
5. Flags of Cuba and Vietnam
6....
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News Item (204bcf9d-becb-e8fc-4d98-887924a0e844)
notes: col print
location: dar - es - salaam, tanzania
title: nyerere castro
serviced date: 03/21/77
no: lnc80929
date shot: 03/20/00
length: 28 ft
seconds: 0:45
sound: mute
date of arrival:
film shows: cuban premier...
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Cuban President Raul Castro makes official visit to China
Cuban leader Raul Castro was visiting key trading partner China for talks with President Hu Jintao and other leaders in Beijing on Wednesday.
He will spend four days in China.
Cuban state media said he was accompanied by Vice President...
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News Item (8fa3b6b5-95b4-a4f5-a7a7-f1faeffce210)
notes: col kine
location: havana, cuba
title: castro exiles / kine
serviced date: 11/23/78
no: lnc98915
date shot: 11/21/00
length: 30 ft
seconds: 48
sound: mute
date of arrival:
film shows: a news conference in...
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Chile's Bachelet meets President Castro in Havana
Cuban President Raul Castro received his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet at Havana's Council of State for a private meeting on Monday evening.
Earlier in the day, Bachelet placed a wreath before the monument of Jose...
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Cuban citizens allowed to buy microwaves and other electrical goods
1. Wide of "Carlos III" shopping centre in Havana
2. Interior of electronics store, man browsing
3. Pull out from DVD player to wide of flat screens on wall
4. Mid of man looking at electronic wares
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Lazaro...
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Analyst: New president takes office amid strained Cuba-US relations
Cuba's new president will enter office with diplomatic relations between the island and the United States strained and chilly, according to a former Cuban diplomat and analyst.
Raul Castro's protégé Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel...
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he Cuban government is preparing for a "massive distribution of land," Orlando Lugo, president of Cuba's national farming association, said last week
HEADLINE: Cuba hopes small farms will ease food woes
CAPTION: The Cuban government is preparing for a "massive distribution of land," Orlando Lugo, president of Cuba's national farming association, said last week.(April 5)
...
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Anti-Castro group calls on Cubans to reject Raul; plus anti-Castro vigil
1. Wide of cars honking horns
2. People waving Cuban flags at passing cars
3. Car with Cuban flag honking
4. Various of Cuba vigil
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Angel Desana, Vox pop:
"Every week at this time we have a vigil about the...
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USA: NEW YORK: CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO VISITS HARLEM
Eng/Span/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro received a rapturous welcome on his return to the mostly black and Hispanic neighbourhood of Harlem in New York.
He first stayed there in 1960, and made political mileage out of his exclusion...
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US Secretary of State asks OAS to promote democracy in Cuba
1. Wide shot of assembly
2. Soledad Alvear, Chilean Secretary of Foreign Affairs
3. Colombian Ambassador to the OAS, Oracio Serpa
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State:
"The inter-American charter declares that the...
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USA: WHITE HOUSE GIVES PERMISSION FOR NEWS BUREAUS TO OPEN IN CUBA
English/Nat
The Clinton administration gave permission Wednesday for ten U-S news organizations to open bureaus in Cuba.
Senator Jesse Helms --one of the proponents of the Helms-Burton Law tightening the embargo against the island--...