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		<title>Regional security in the Americas</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/09/03/regional-security-in-the-americas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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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>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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		<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>Russia, Cuba and Latin America</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/23/russia-cuba-and-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
La Nueva Cuba has published two articles related to Russia, Cuba and Latin America.
The first is an editorial by Pravada titled &#8220;Battle for Ossetia transferred to Latin America,&#8221; stating Russia&#8217;s support of its allies (Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia) in Latin America.  There is no English translation, however, a Spanish one is made by Urgente 24 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban espionage, threat to the Americas</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/19/cuban-espionage-threat-to-the-americas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
By Jerry Brewer via Mexidata.info
Totalitarian dictatorships still exist and, as a matter of fact, they are very much alive in Latin America. Democracies throughout the Americas must immediately address their governments&#8217; counterintelligence missions, and their strategic long and short range vision to monitor aggression and other forms of insurgency within their homelands.
Cuba&#8217;s intelligence and spy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty-two years of imprisonment</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/16/twenty-two-years-of-imprisonment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Felipe González]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal tells the story of  Armando Valladares, author of Against All Hope which details his harrowing twenty-two year imprisonment as a political prisoner of the Cuban government:

In late December 1959, nearly a year after Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista had been run out the country by a movement that had a goal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. is 5th leading trade partner</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/14/us-is-5th-leading-trade-partner/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/14/us-is-5th-leading-trade-partner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports:
The United States ranked among communist Cuba&#8217;s top five trading partners for the first time in 2007 despite the decades-old U.S. trade embargo, as U.S. agriculture sales increased by $100 million.
Trade data for 2007 posted on the Web site of Cuba&#8217;s National Statistics Office (www.one.cu) placed the United States fifth at $582 million, compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chávez Sees Cuba as a Model</title>
		<link>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/14/chavez-sees-cuba-as-a-model/</link>
		<comments>http://cubapolidata.com/2008/08/14/chavez-sees-cuba-as-a-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armando F. Mastrapa 3d</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady, The Americas columnist for the Wall Street Journal writes about Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez emulating Fidel Castro&#8217;s authoritarian trait:
It is no secret that Hugo Chávez wants to be just like Fidel Castro someday. And last week he took a step closer to that goal by laying down 26 new decrees designed to eviscerate [...]]]></description>
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