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ITALY: ROME: FIDEL CASTRO MEETS MAYOR FRANCESCO RUTELLI
Italian/Nat
Fidel Castro has left for Cuba after a five-day visit to Italy and an historic audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
Castro's Ilyushin-62 was granted permission to take off during an air traffic controllers' ...
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USA: POPE JOHN PAUL II VISIT
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Sidestepping differences on abortion and the economic stranglehold on Cuba, President Clinton has joined Pope John Paul II in impassioned pleas for social policy that protects the poor and keeps families together.
The...
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Reax as Cuban leader Fidel Castro lashes out at President Bush
1. People buying newspapers
2. Vendor selling papers
3. Various, men reading newspapers
4. Woman sweeping in Old Havana
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Coralia Bauta, Old Havana street cleaner:
"He spends his entire life thinking about us, and...
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Cuban FM comments on Castro's health
April 12, 2007
1. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque arriving at news conference
2. Reporters
3. Close-up of portrait of Cuban President Fidel Castro
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish with English translation) Felipe Perez Roque, Cuban...
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Dissidents react to US President Bush's speech on Cuba
May 16, 2002
1. Various of Cuban opposition groups arriving to meet with former US president Jimmy Carter during his visit to Cuba
2. Hector Palacios with Oswaldo Payรภunveiling Varela Project banner prior to meeting with...
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Cuban senior official blasts proposed restrictions in US draft report
1. Wide shot ship entering Havana Harbour
2. Medium shot girl riding pony in Old Havana
3. Wide shot billboard with picture of Fidel (in Spanish) "We're Doing Well"
4. Wide shot exterior National Assembly offices
5. Medium shot interior...
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Two authors use declassified documents to expose secret history of dialogue between US and Cuba
Two American authors visited Havana on Monday to promote their book on Cuban-US relations with the hope of encouraging a change in policy between the two countries.
William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh are presenting their book, called...
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Cuba - Robust Castro lauds Socialism
STORY: Congress
LOCATION: Havana
Robust Castro lauds Socialism at 5th Party Congress
In his address to the 5th Cuban Communist Party in Havana on
Wednesday (8/10), President Fidel Castro proudly boasted that
the country had...
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Quality version of Raul Castro on detainees at Guantanamo
1. Medium shot of Raul Castro at the De Melones look out point near the U-S military base at Guantanamo bay.
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Raul Castro, Cuban Vice President:
"With don't have any discrepancies about the fight against...
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Presser by Cardinal Bartone after meeting with Raul Castro, plus departure
1. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertoni entering room
2. Bertoni with Cuban church officials
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Cardinal Tarcisio Bertoni, Vatican envoy:
"I hope from this tour there will be a new impulse on the road in the relations between...
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PANAMA: CASTRO AND FLORES CLASH AT SUMMIT
Spanish/Nat
A dispute over a resolution against terrorism spiralled into a squabble at the close of the Ibero-American summit on Saturday.
The leaders of Cuba and El Salvador hurled allegations, drenched in civil war...
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Fmr Polish president tells Cuban dissidents to prepare for peace
1. Cuban dissidents at U.S. residence in Havana
2. Dissidents from left to right: Felix Bonne, Vladimiro Roca, Marta Beatriz Roca
3. Michael Parmly, U.S. Section Chief in Havana
4. Wide shot of conference room with former Polish...
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Former US presidential candidate visits
1. Former US presidential candidate Ralph Nader being greeted by Ricardo Alarcon
2. Nader shaking hands with Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon
3. Cutaway of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ralph Nader, Former US...
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WRAP: Adds latest aftermath from Hurricane Michelle
Varadero, Matanzas Province, Cuba
1. Exterior damaged hotel
2. Various damage to hotel
3. Overturned tree
4. Workers chopping at tree
5. Panamanian tourist skipping
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Panamanian Tourist
"To get to know Cuba, or...
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Gay rights activists celebrate International Day against Homophobia at newly opened cafe
1. Wide of dressing room at Fashion Bar Havana
2. Mid of performer Venus having make-up applied
3. Mid of Venus putting on bra
4. Tilt down of performer Blanquita getting dressed
5. Wide of hallway outside dressing room with Gay Pride...
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Funeral for activist Oswaldo Paya who died in car accident
Several hundred people assembled at Havana's Saviour of the World church to pay their last respects to recently deceased dissident Oswaldo Paya and to vow that his life's work advocating for democratic reforms on the island would...
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Cuban government outlines position on US embargo
1. Zoom in Alarcon entering Conference Room at Hotel Nacional de Cuba
2. Cutaway audience
3. Conference table
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ricardo Alarcon, President of Cuban Parliament:
"The most important thing for them now and for the law...
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News conference by convicted Cuban spy Rene Gonzalez
1. Various of news conference with convicted Cuban spy Rene Gonzalez and wife Olga Salanueva
2. Mid of media
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rene Gonzalez, Convicted Cuban Spy:
"This is the document certifying the loss of my United States...
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Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with US on equal terms
Cuban President Raul Castro said on Thursday that his government was willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it was a conversation between equals.
At the end of a...
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Daughter of Raul Castro joins Gay rights parade in capital
The daughter of Cuban President, Raul Castro, joined hundreds of people at a gay rights parade in Havana on Saturday.
Waving a mini gay pride flag, Mariela Castro marched to the beat of congas as she took part in celebrations ahead of...
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CUBA: NEW FOREIGN MINISTER ROQUE PRESS CONFERENCE
Spanish/Nat
The new Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque has held his first press conference in Havana after succeeding Roberto Robaina.
Roque used the occasion to underline the validity of a Cuban tribunal's decision to sue the U-S...
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Castro's chair empty as parliament holds first session since leader's illness
1. Wide of Cuban National Assembly
2. Defence Minister, Raul Castro, entering and waving
3. Pan right delegates clapping
4. Raul seated next to empty chair
5. Close up of Cuban leader Fidel Castro's empty chair
6. Wide of Assembly
7....
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CUBA: 9TH IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT OPENS
Spanish/Nat
The 9th Ibero-American summit has officially started in the Cuban capital Havana with a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of visiting nations.
Earlier in the day, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain - the first...
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State Dept comment on Raul Castro
1. US State Department Spokesman Tom Casey at podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Casey, US State Department Spokesman:
"Unfortunately the Cuban people deserve much better than the handover of a family business of dictatorship between the...