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		<title>Cuban national security</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Department&#8217;s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs issued its Background Notes for Cuba in late 2011. An assessment on Cuba&#8217;s national security follows: With the loss of Soviet-era subsidies in the early 1990s, Cuba&#8217;s armed forces have shrunk considerably, both in terms of numbers and assets. Combined active duty troop strength for all three services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurgence of the coup d&#8217;état</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Kurlantzick, a Fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an piece in The National on the rise of the coup d&#8217;état: Across the developing world, from Thailand to Pakistan, militaries have become more politically powerful in recent years. Indeed, in many Middle Eastern nations, armies will be determining the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Havana &amp; Caracas: Symbiotic Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Financial Times: Carlos Romero, an expert on Cuba-Venezuela relations at the Centraniversity of Venezuela, calculates that accumulated aid from Caracas to Havana between 1999 and 2009 amounts to $19.4bn, about 70 per cent of Venezuela’s total foreign aid during that period. That includes $14.2bn in payment for professional services such as doctors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goons vs. ladies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady in tomorrow&#8217;s Wall Street Journal on the Cuban government&#8217;s attacks on peaceful women dissidents (Ladies in White): This is not without risk to the regime, should the international community decide to pay attention and apply pressure on the white-elite regime the way it did in opposition to apartheid in South Africa. But [...]]]></description>
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