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		<title>Cuba and Mexico: Warming</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/cuba-and-mexico-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[mexican president felipe calderon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mexican president vicente fox]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[venezuelan president hugo chavez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Oxford Analytica:
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque visits Mexico on Thursday, in an atmosphere of improving bilateral ties.  Close historical ties between the two countries, arising from a shared revolutionary tradition, and similar challenges from close proximity with the United States, had suffered under the administration of former Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Things have changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban navy sends aid</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/cuban-navy-sends-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/cuban-navy-sends-aid/#comments</comments>
		<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>Regional security in the Americas</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/03/regional-security-in-the-americas/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/03/regional-security-in-the-americas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[bolivarian revolution]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[defense matters]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[geopolitical environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[President Hugo Chavez]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[security cooperation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[transnational threats]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Western Hemisphere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Eighth Defense Ministerial of the Americas: End of the Line?
by Ray Walser
Heritage Foundation
The Canadian government will host the Eighth Defense Ministerial of the Americas (DMA) September 2–6 at Banff in the scenic Canadian Rockies. The purpose of the meeting is the promotion of regional defense and security cooperation in the Americas and the strengthening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>150 mph winds tear through Cuba</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/31/150-mph-winds-tear-through-cuba/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/31/150-mph-winds-tear-through-cuba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[category 5 hurricane]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[hurricane force winds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[isle of youth]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[pinar del rio]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[
Via AP:
Gustav howled into Cuba&#8217;s tobacco-growing western tip as a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane on Saturday while both Cubans and Americans on the Gulf Coast scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm.
 Forecasters said Gustav was just short of becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane as it hit Cuba&#8217;s mainland after passing over [...]]]></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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<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>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[sustainable sugar production]]></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>Punk musician arrested by Cuban government</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/28/punk-musician-arrested-by-cuban-government/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/28/punk-musician-arrested-by-cuban-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Alejandro Sanz]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[cuban musicians]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[extreme violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[international campaign]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Miguel Bosé]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Milanes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[state security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Gorki Águila, outspoken lead singer of the Cuban punk band Porno para Ricardo was arrested by the Cuban government on Monday facing charges of dangerousness.
Cuban law defines &#8220;social dangerousness&#8221; as behavior contrary to &#8220;communist morality,&#8221; and the police use it to detain offenders before they have a chance to commit a crime.
He faces four years in [...]]]></description>
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