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		<title>Worldwide Threat Assessment 2012: Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James R. Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, testified today before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on this year&#8217;s Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community. DNI&#8217;s assessment for Cuba: Cuban President Raul Castro has begun a delicate, cautious process of reform designed to revive the island‟s flagging economy without loosening political control. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So much for reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army General Raul Castro&#8217;s remarks in today&#8217;s close of the Cuban Communist Party conference in Havana: &#8220;Renouncing the principle of a single party would be equal to legalising one or more imperialist parties&#8230;In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cuban political elite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eusebio Mujal-León, professor and former chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the director of the Cuba XXI Project, has written an excellent article (published in the Journal of International Affairs&#8217; Fall/Winter &#8217;11 issue on the authoritarian state) analyzing the new Cuban political elite and exploring how power is distributed between the country&#8217;s military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly minted colonels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Cuban state media: Army General Raul Castro presided over the promotion ceremony of 65 officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) to the rank of colonel at Defense Ministry headquarters. These officers were recognized for &#8220;their accomplishments in strengthening the country&#8217;s defensive capability and personal character.&#8221; Those promoted are graduates of higher education, where&#160;35% [...]]]></description>
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