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Reaction in Cuba
1. Wide shot Perez Roque, Foreign Minister of Cuba, at podium in Cuban Foreign Ministry Conference Room
2. Media
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Felipe Perez Roque, Foreign Minister of Cuba:
"We have just received, with great sorrow, news of...
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CUBA: HAVANA: CUBAN EXILES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CONFERENCE
Span/Eng/Nat
Scores of Cuban exiles met with government officials in Havana on the last day of a three day conference which they hope will improve relations between the island and the exile community.
At today's closed-door sessions...
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Six handmade humidors auctioned at gala closing of cigar festival
1. Close tilt up of Cuban cigar humidor (specialised cigar container) that fetched highest bid of 300-thousand euros (390-thousand US dollars) at the Habanos Cigar Festival Gala, Havana
2. Mid of humidors
3. Various of people smoking...
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Iran denies Cuba supplies biochemical technology
21 May 2002
1. Wide of press conference at the Iranian embassy
2. Cutaway to journalists
File - 10 May 2002
3. Cuban President Fidel Castro entering the Palacio de las Convenciones
4. Castro addressing audience
21 May 2002
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Cuba - Castro attends opening of CDR conference
Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Sunday (27/09) attended the opening ceremony of a 3 day conference celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution (CDR). The group was set up to ensure that revolutionary...
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New private taxis allowed for first time since '99
1. Low shot of Old Capitol building with horse and carriage and classic car taxi passing
2. Zoom out people getting out of classic car taxi
3. Medium shot classic car taxi passing in front of several parked taxis
4. Medium classic...
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Reax as Cuban television runs soap opera with gay characters
23 May, 2006
1. Wide of soap opera set with actors and cameras
2. Cameraman and soundman on set
3. Director watching actors on television monitor
4. Scene from "El Lado Oculto de la Luna" (The Hidden Side of the Moon), with...
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Reax from human rights activists, locals as life continues as normal
FILE: March 2004
1. Wide of Combinado del Este prison
2. Wide of prisoners in Combinado del Este
3. Close of security watchtower at prison
4. Wide of prisoners and guards
February 19, 2008
5. Wide of dissident Elizardo Shanchez walking...
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CUBA: IMMIGRANTS HEADING FOR THE US
Spanish/Nat
Accusations flew this week between Washington and Havana over efforts to control the flow of Cuban immigrants headed for U-S shores.
The U-S State Department accuses Cuba of breaching its own rules on immigration, falsely...
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Elian Rodriguez is 8 years old
1. Mid shot of Elian Gonzalez
2. Mid shot of Elian Gonzalez
3. Close shot of Elian Gonzalez with his cousin
4. Mid shot of Ricardo Alarcon with Juan Miguel, father of Elian Gonzalez
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ricardo Alarcon, president of...
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GRENADA: CUBAN PRESIDENT CASTRO MEETS PRIME MINISTER MITCHELL
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro, on the second day of his visit to Grenada, has met Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell and the mother of assassinated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
Grenada is one of three countries...
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CUBA: HAVANA ROCK CONCERT
English/Nat
British band Manic Street Preachers staged a rare and extremely loud rock concert in communist Cuba late on Saturday for a couple thousand fans - among them, President Fidel Castro.
Castro, 74, drew cheers from the youthful...
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Pressure grows on US to extradite or prosecute alleged plane bomber
1. Wide of news conference by A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition (Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism) and National Committee to Free the Cuban five
2. Mid of sign reading (English) "Victims of Luis Posada's Terrorism. Extradite him to...
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Latam leaders comment on President Castro's illness
1. Plane at the airport after landing and military waiting outside
2. Vice-President of Cuba Carlos Lage walking with Vice-President of Bolivia Alvaro Marcelo Garcia
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Lage, Vice-President of Cuba:
(Q: How...
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CUBA: HURRICANE GEORGE WREAKS HAVOC
Spanish/Nat
In Cuba, three people have died and over 200,000 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes following the onslaught of Hurricane Georges which is still battering some areas of the island.
Electricity lines have been...
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USA: INTERVIEW WITH FIDEL CASTRO'S SISTER JUANITA UPDATE
Spanish/Eng/Nat
In an exclusive interview with APTV, Fidel Castro's renegade sister has spoken about her brother and the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba.
Juanita Castro, who lives in Miami, left Cuba in 1963 - at odds with the Marxist...
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Hundreds mark Good Friday with Via Crucis in Havana
1. High angle shot procession in street in Old Havana
2. Medium shot statue of Christ
3. High angle of Christ statue meeting Mary statue during the procession
4. High angle of procession with Auxiliary Bishop of Havana, Juan...
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Fidel Castro likens hurricane destruction to an atomic bomb
1. Convoy of trucks carrying building materials
2. Wide of roof tiles being unloaded from trucks
3. Men unloading roof tiles from truck
4. Bulldozer lifting debris onto truck
5. Truck carrying debris driving on road
6. Wide of destroyed...
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Dissident Soler calls for world action against Havana government
1. Pan of Cuban dissident Berta Soler (wearing white) entering news conference room
2. Wide of news conference room, audience clapping
3. Wide of Soler receiving an award
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Berta Soler, Cuban Dissident:
"We, Ladies...
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Korea - North-South: Relations Improve, USA/Cuba: Havana: Elian Gonzalez (Cuban Boy), Mexico:Mexico City: Election
Fanfare being played and vast crowd in square
South Korean president Kim Dae Jung
Kim Dae Jung along and greeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il
The two leaders along and crowd waving flags
Leaders joining hands in air for...
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USA: CALLS TO END EMBARGO ON US EXPORTS TO CUBA
English/Nat
A business group is busy building support in Washington for an end to the ban on U-S medical and food exports to Cuba.
The group is lobbying lawmakers in an effort to ease the 38-year-old embargo, which they say is depriving...
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Cuba lifts ban that kept its citizens from staying in tourist hotels
1. Pull out from Hotel Nacional
2. Wide of Riviera Hotel
3. Pull out from entrance of Riviera Hotel
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Francisco Munoz, Havana resident:
"They are new measures, new measures that are good. It means we are prospering...
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Cuban dissidents ask US Greek Orthodox leaders to deliver msg Patriarch
1. Pan left dissidents entering US Chief of Mission's home
2. Close up Vladimiro Roca and Elizardo Sanchez greeting US Interests Section Chief, James Cason
3. Leader, Greek Orthodox Church US, Archbishop Demetrios entering Cason'S...
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Fidel Castro says brother has "all legal and constitutional faculties"
1. Wide Old Capitol building in Havana and traffic
2. Traffic
3. Close-up newspaper headline reading: (Spanish) "I expect to not to embarrass myself"
4. Newspaper vendor and customer
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gisela Estevez, Havana...