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	<title> &#187; 2007 &#187; August</title>
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		<title>MILITARY DESIGNED SYSTEM FAVORED</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/31/military-designed-system-favored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Carlos Lage Davila, Cuban Vice-President and viewed as a possible future president, delivered a speech (click here for full text in Spanish) yesterday at the closing of a national seminar                          [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CUBA&#8217;S POLITICAL PRISONERS</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/30/cubas-political-prisoners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Economist print edition:
In as many weeks, three political prisoners have been freed in Cuba, including the longest-serving of them, Francisco Chaviano, after 13 years in jail. He had been accused in 1994 of revealing state secrets during his research into the lives and deaths of balseros, the people who—especially in the early 1990s—fled from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRISONER RELEASES RAISE HOPE FOR CUBA</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/30/prisoner-releases-raise-hope-for-cuba/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/30/prisoner-releases-raise-hope-for-cuba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Christian Science Monitor:
When prominent Cuban human rights advocate Francisco Chaviano was released earlier this month after 13 years in prison, he joined the growing list of political dissidents set free in the year since Fidel Castro, sidelined by poor health, ceded power to his brother Raúl.
The steady fall in Cuba&#8217;s political prisoner population since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAUL CASTRO VISITS ITALY</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/30/raul-castro-visits-italy/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/30/raul-castro-visits-italy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AP reports:
According to the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, Raul Castro was in a private visit to Italy a few weeks ago.  He visited the exclusive golf complex in Toscana, northern region of Italy, which could not be confirmed by the Cuban embassy in Italy.
The report said Cuba&#8217;s Defense Minister and Interim-President is a golf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSYCHOLOGY OF RUMORS</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/27/psychology-of-rumors/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/27/psychology-of-rumors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.&#8217; &#8211;Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Last Friday&#8217;s tumult of rumors over Fidel Castro&#8217;s death plays right into a grandeur scheme by Havana to maximize its control of information and manipulation of the Cuban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOBILIZATION OF THE HIGH COMMAND RESERVE</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/24/mobilization-of-the-high-command-reserve/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/24/mobilization-of-the-high-command-reserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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In the event of Fidel Castro&#8217;s death, the Commandante&#8217;s High Command Reserve (Reserva del Alto Mando &#8212; RAM) would be mobilized to thwart any internal popular unrest as it was during the August 5, 1994 Maleconazo.
Click here to read my report on this elite reserve component of the Revolutionary Army.

&#8220;In mid-September [2004],    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INTENSIFICATION OF RUMORS</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/08/24/intensification-of-rumors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Renewed rumors of Fidel Castro&#8217;s death have intensified this afternoon.
According to Babalu Blog, emergency services and law enforcement in Miami-Dade County are on alert.
Is this a reaction to rumors or has the Cuban Government communicated to the US Government that in fact Fidel Castro has died?
Caution should be exercised,  as the same round of [...]]]></description>
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