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		<title>One of the world&#8217;s oldest leaders</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/05/one-of-the-worlds-eldest-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Council of State]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Jose Ramon Machado Ventura]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Ricardo Alarcon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ulises Rosales del Toro]]></category>

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

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		<category><![CDATA[Felipe Pérez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy magazine has published a list of The World’s 10 Oldest Leaders which includes Cuba&#8217;s own Raul Castro:

Date of birth: June 3, 1931
Years in power: 2 (president since February 2008, but had been de facto president since July 2006 when his brother, Fidel Castro, transferred power to him due to failing health)
Rank on Failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban navy sends aid</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/cuban-navy-sends-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[hurricane gustav]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recovery efforts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Cuban state media:
The Saturno motor vessel of the Cuban Revolutionary Navy, is expected to arrive in Isla de la Juventud on Thursday loaded with materials for the reestablishment of the communications and energy systems in this area, devastated by hurricane Gustav.
The ship set sail on Tuesday from the Haiphong terminal of Havana&#8217;s port carrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese military influence in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/chinese-military-influence-in-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Military expenditures]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[chinese arms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chinese weapons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cuban air force]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[military acquisition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[power projection capability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The September/October 2008 edition of Military Review (pdf) published by the US Army Combined Arms Center has an article on Chinese military influence in Latin America.  A section addresses Cuba&#8217;s military acquisition of Chinese arms and technology, as follows:

Special case: Cuba. Cuba has increasingly relied on Chinese assistance for its military because of generous terms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign investors keen on sugar production</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/30/foreign-investors-keen-on-sugar-production/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/30/foreign-investors-keen-on-sugar-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[East European]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[foreign direct investment]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[sugar harvest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sugar industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A possible recovery of Cuba&#8217;s sugar industry through foreign investment is discussed in the following report from IPS:
Foreign direct investment in the sugar industry is acceptable to the Cuban government for producing alcohol and other derivatives, but it continues to be a topic that the authorities prefer not to talk about, at least in public, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba&#8217;s emerging leverage</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/19/cubas-emerging-leverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<category><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East European]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[ISN Security Watch has an article addressing Cuba&#8217;s international relations leverage and foreign investment:
When Russian daily Izvestia reported on 21 July that Russian Tu-160 and Tu-95MS bombers had landed in Cuba, it set off a sprint in Washington as analysts and military leaders struggled to understand the situation.
At first, it appeared that Moscow had made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We will bury you</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/16/we-will-bury-you/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/16/we-will-bury-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ramirez]]></category>

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

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		<title>Twenty-two years of imprisonment</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/16/twenty-two-years-of-imprisonment/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/16/twenty-two-years-of-imprisonment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Felipe González]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Valladares]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Luis Boitel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal tells the story of  Armando Valladares, author of Against All Hope which details his harrowing twenty-two year imprisonment as a political prisoner of the Cuban government:

In late December 1959, nearly a year after Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista had been run out the country by a movement that had a goal of [...]]]></description>
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