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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>

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<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>Cuba and Mexico: Warming</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/cuba-and-mexico-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/04/cuba-and-mexico-warming/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
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		<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>

		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Wordle</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/27/wordle/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/27/wordle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[

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		<title>Post-Castroism and sovereignty under seige</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/24/post-castroism-and-sovereignty-under-seige/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/24/post-castroism-and-sovereignty-under-seige/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Organized crime]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[clash of civilizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[commercial profit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[criminal organizations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drug traffickers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mafia families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mara Salvatrucha]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[national borders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[post-Castro]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[street gangs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Several challenges will be posed to a transitional government once Castroism fades from existence (elements will certainly remain) and a semblance of democracy emerges. Organized crime will be one of them, particularly in the streets of Havana and other cities throughout the island, perpetrated by gangs.
The lessons learned (from strategy and tactics to combat) of [...]]]></description>
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