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		<title>Former spook appointed vice-president</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/10/14/former-spook-appointed-vice-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Council of Ministers]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[
According to a brief note in Granma, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuba&#8217;s Minister Without Portfolio, has been appointed Vice-President of the Council of Ministers and will oversee International Commerce, Foreign Investments, and Economic Collaboration ministries as well as other entities within the Central Administration of State.
Cabrisas Ruiz was part of the General Intelligence Directorate (DGI): first, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Castro looks for a U.S. lifeline</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/22/castro-looks-for-a-us-lifeline/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/22/castro-looks-for-a-us-lifeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food crisis]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[castro dictatorship]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Cuban economy]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[food shortages]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[humanitarian assistance]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady &#124; Wall Street Journal
Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike inflicted misery on millions of Cubans. But when the Castro dictatorship looks at the devastation, it sees opportunity.
Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl, who took over as head of state in February, for years have been calling for an end to the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I see stars&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/17/i-see-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/17/i-see-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[debt obligations]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[russian companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[russian deputy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[space equipment]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubapolidata.com/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cuba cannot meet its foreign debt obligations coupled with hurricane damages reaching $5 billion, there is now talk of a Cuban space center being developed with Russian help, where are the priorities of the Cuban government to its populace?
Moscow is ready to help Cuba develop its own space center, Russia&#8217;s space agency chief said on [...]]]></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>

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

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

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		<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>Creation of super-ministry</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/12/creation-of-super-ministry/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/12/creation-of-super-ministry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council of Ministers]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Food crisis]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[ministry of agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[national security issue]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[La Razon reports on the creation of a super-ministry charged with overseeing the production of food (a vital national security issue for Cuba):

While rumors of a next government crisis runs insistently throughout Havana, the name of Ulises Rosales del Toro is beginning to be heard with greater impetus among diplomats and journalists.   Rosales del [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apathetic expectations</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/10/apathetic-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/10/apathetic-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle reports on the Cubans&#8217; apathetic feeling and prices spiraling upward even for a mango yet the Cuban government has a difference view:
Cubans face economic difficulties, but &#8220;there are no tanks on the street corners,&#8221; said Miguel Alvarez, chief adviser to Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba&#8217;s National Assembly. Cuba, Alvarez said, is a &#8220;stable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upsurge in violence</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/03/upsurge-in-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/03/upsurge-in-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[political stability]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico&#8217;s Informador reports on the increased expression of violence in the island.  Even though violence is minor in Cuba compared to other Latin American countries, the island is not exempt from that type of expression, which has increased recently and acknowledged by state media, asserts the daily.
The greater question for Raul Castro&#8217;s government lies when [...]]]></description>
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