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	<title> &#187; 2008 &#187; January</title>
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		<title>How is Raul doing?</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/30/how-is-raul-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuban Communist Party]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[January&#8217;s The Lattell Report has been published:
Former New York mayor Ed Koch was fond of hovering at busy subway station entrances and startling commuters by asking, with a big smile and a handshake, “How am I doing?” There is no Cuban equivalent of course, not even remotely so, yet in his own diffident way Raul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Army prepares for defense year</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/29/eastern-army-prepares-for-defense-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Generals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Military &amp; Defense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Army Corps General Ramón Espinosa Martín]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Army]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FAR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General Staff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MININT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Interior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary Armed Forces]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cuba&#8217;s Eastern Army (Ejército Oriental) began its 2008 Defense Preparation in a military review and political ceremony held at the Mayor General Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz Revolution Plaza (Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz) in Camagüey.
The ceremony was presided by Commander of the Revolution Guillermo García Frías, Army Corps General Álvaro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellany&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/26/miscellany/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/26/miscellany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Cuba&#8217;s economic growth in 2007 was 7% &#8212; as per the CIA&#8217;s estimate. (H/T: The Cuban Triangle)


Mexico&#8217;s center-right president to improve relations with Cuba and shun Cuba&#8217;s opposition.


Cuba and state sponsored terrorism.


A dual-murder conspiracy against former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Cuban President Fidel Castro?


US hegemony over the Western hemisphere, a thing of the past?


Wednesday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piecing together the Dark Legacy</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/24/piecing-together-the-dark-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/24/piecing-together-the-dark-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cuban intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of State Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DGI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Directorate of Intelligence (DI)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MININT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Interior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stasi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Wired Magazine has published an article that addresses the  painstakingly process of reconstructing torn surveillance files by hand of the Stasi (East Germany&#8217;s State Security Service), which had an influence over its tropical version&#8211;Cuba&#8217;s Ministry of Interior (MININT).
Will the MININT follow suit in tearing up files once the Castro regime is no longer in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban intel expands</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/18/cuban-intel-expands/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/18/cuban-intel-expands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuban intel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cuban intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Cuba&#8217;s intelligence gathering capabilities has expanded well beyond its sphere of historical concentration: the US and Latin America.  According to a former counterintelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Chris Simmons, Cuba has concentrated &#8220;to places where vital U.S. interests are at stake &#8212; like Iran, Turkey, India and Pakistan.&#8221; 
The Miami Herald further reports:
Simmons said a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidel and retirement</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/16/fidel-and-retirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Lage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Frank of the Financial Times summarizes the current state of Cuba&#8217;s &#8220;electroral&#8221; politics and speculation on Fidel Castro&#8217;s future.
In an indication that it is not yet time to count Fidel Castro out of Cuban politics, the increasingly frail 81-year-old leader of the Cuban revolution will contest for a seat in the National Assembly in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil&#8217;s billion dollar investment in Cuba</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/15/brazils-billion-dollar-investment-in-cuba/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/01/15/brazils-billion-dollar-investment-in-cuba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cuban Government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lula da Silva]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nickel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
O Estado De S.Paulo reports Brazil&#8217;s President Lula da Silva will offer Cuba $1 billion dollars in credits to finance the purchase of aliments, housing construction, and exploration of nickel as well as other projects, affirm Brazilian diplomats. 
[Photo: Reuters -- Cuban interim-President Raul Castro and Brazilian President Lula da Silva review FAR Honor Guards.]

Monday, January [...]]]></description>
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