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		<title>Brazil helps in small business creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s foreign minister, Celso Amorim, met yesterday with Cuba&#8217;s de facto president Raúl Castro. Castro and Amorim discussed current international and regional issues, and characterized bilateral relations as excellent. Brazil has invested $1B in various projects in Cuba including the reconstruction of the Port of Mariel. And, Brazil has also extended lines of credit to the island as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tactics of survival</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvaro Vargas Llosa on the Castro brothers as masterful tacticians: Other releases have lifted people’s hopes in the past. In 1969-70, about 1,300 prisoners were deported. In 1979, after a controversial negotiation with some exiles, 3,600 opponents were set free – and expelled. In 1998, Pope John Paul II’s visit was followed by the release of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifting the communications embargo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and editor in chief of Americas Quarterly, argues for lifting the communications embargo on Cuba in the July/August 2010 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: This leaves Washington in a quandary. Last week&#8217;s release of the 52 prisoners &#8212; independent journalists and human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.-Cuba environmental cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early May, the Brookings Institution published a study on U.S.-Cuba environmental cooperation when dealing with the potential risks of oil exploration in shared ocean waters: As Cuba continues to develop its deepwater oil and natural gas reserves, the consequence to the United States of a similar mishap occurring in Cuban waters moves from the [...]]]></description>
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