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		<title>Council of State issues new legislation</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/07/18/council-of-state-issues-new-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[State media declares:
Raúl Castro (President, Council of State)  has signed two new decree laws on the distribution in usufruct of idle land, and on working conditions and wages for retired teachers and professors who return to the classrooms.
 

Decree-Law No. 259 authorizes the handing over in usufruct of idle state land to individuals and legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues discussed in Politburo &#038; Council of State meeting</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/07/11/issues-discussed-in-politburo-council-of-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Jose Ramon Machado Ventura]]></category>

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

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Cuban media reports Army General Raul Castro presided over a joint meeting of the Politburo and Council of State.  The economic and social situation of the country were analyzed.  Food production and rise in the main branches of productive activity and services were among other topics of discussion.
Also debated were some issues to be discussed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political structure</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/05/08/political-structure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Jose Ramon Machado Ventura]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Political structure
May 6th 2008
From the Economist Intelligence Unit
Source: Country Report
Official name

 Republic of Cuba

Form of government

 Centralised political system, with close identification between the PCC and the state

Head of state

 The president, Raul Castro, took over from his brother, Fidel, on February 24th 2008

The executive

 The Council of Ministers is the highest executive body; its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba No Libre</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/05/08/cuba-no-libre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuban Communist Party]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Americas Quarterly published by the Americas Society offers a preview of its Spring edition, and presents summaries of two articles on Cuba.
Cuba No Libre by Gary Marx and Cecilia Vaisman
On February 19th, Fidel Castro made it official: he was resigning the presidency and ending his 50-year reign over Cuba. Many exiles, U.S. officials and Cubans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cryptic reflection on the state of military affairs</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/04/23/cryptic-reflection-on-the-state-of-military-affairs/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/04/23/cryptic-reflection-on-the-state-of-military-affairs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Álvaro López Miera]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Leopoldo Cintras Frías]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fidel Castro has written his latest reflection titled: &#8220;The Living and the Dead.&#8221;  The Maximum Leader turned op-ed writer acknowledged recently sacked Education Minister Luis Ignacio Gómez Guriérrez as &#8220;truly exhausted&#8221; and &#8220;losing energy and revolutionary conscience.&#8221;  While referencing his numerous travels abroad on behalf of Cuban education, Fidel chastised him for previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education minister replaced</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/04/23/education-minister-replaced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Prensa Latina:
Cuba&#8217;s Council of State, on a proposal of the Politburo, has appointed Ana Elsa Velazquez Cobiella as new Education Minister, an official note reports Tuesday.  Velazquez substitutes Luis Ignacio Gomez Gutierrez. Before her appointment, she was head of the Frank Pais Higher Pedagogical Institute in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.
Share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Fidel, The Deluge</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/03/04/after-fidel-the-deluge/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/03/04/after-fidel-the-deluge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Lage Davila]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Colonel Alex Crowther (Research Professor of National Security Studies in the Strategic Studies Institue of the US Army War College) has penned an editorial on Cuba, Raul and the military.  He is also the author of Security Requirements for Post-Transition Cuba.
As Louis XV allegedly said, &#8220;Apres moi, le deluge.&#8221; Certainly people have thought that Cuba after Fidel would [...]]]></description>
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