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	<title> &#187; Ricardo Alarcon</title>
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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[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Jose Ramon Machado Ventura]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Lage]]></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>Apathetic expectations</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/10/apathetic-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></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>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>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/07/11/issues-discussed-in-politburo-council-of-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Council of State]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Jose Ramon Machado Ventura]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[
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>Raul Castro will visit Brazil</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/07/05/raul-castro-will-visit-brazil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<category><![CDATA[Lula da Silva]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Reuters/Brazil Online (via O Globo Online) reports Raúl Castro will visit Brazil at the end of the year according to a Brazilian government source.
The invitation was extended during President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva&#8217;s visit to Havana in Janaury.
The time frame of Raúl Castro&#8217;s visit was hinted in meeting between Lula and Ricardo Alarcón, president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba’s Unquiet Youth</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/03/31/cuba%e2%80%99s-unquiet-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/03/31/cuba%e2%80%99s-unquiet-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Felipe Perez Roque]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[ The latest Latell Report:
      They are mostly miserably poor and frustrated, isolated and repressed, living with only the faintest hopes that their lives will ever improve under the Castro brothers’ enduring regime. Heirs to five decades of the revolution’s material and moral failures, they reject its myths and collectivist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GDR premier denies advising Cuba on transition</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/02/24/gdr-premier-denies-advising-cuba-on-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/02/24/gdr-premier-denies-advising-cuba-on-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ricardo Alarcon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The former prime minister of the erstwhile German Democratic Republic (GDR), Hans Modrow, has denied reports that he was in Cuba to advise its government on transition to a more democratic regime, Spain&#8217;s EFE news agency reported Sunday.Heinz Dieterich, advisor to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and considered one of the ideologues of the so-called &#8220;socialism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidel&#8217;s Final Abdication</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/12/01/fidels-final-abdication/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2007/12/01/fidels-final-abdication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Abel Prieto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[November&#8217;s Latell Report as follows:
    Fidel Castro’s              nearly forty-nine year tenure as Cuba’s de facto and constitutional              head of state and government may finally be drawing [...]]]></description>
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