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Cuba plans to revamp state and legal systems
In the midst of a regional crisis over Venezuela and tough economic straits, the Cuban government is about to launch a sweeping makeover of its centrally planned, single-party system with dozens of new laws that could reshape everything...
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CUBA: BOAT HIJACKERS RETURNED (2)
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U-S officials have returned a group of suspected boat hijackers to Cuba.
The U-S Coast Guard said the five men and a woman in their twenties boarded the boat in a port north of Havana early on Monday.
Cuba alerted U-S...
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CUBA: US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY
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In less than a week's time the Pope arrives in Cuba, but one place he
won't be visiting is the U-S naval base at Guantanamo Bay on the south-east of the island.
The base is one of the last outposts of the Cold War and...
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State Dept briefing on Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela
1. Wide of State Department briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State:
"We believe that what we are seeing in Cuba today is effectively a slow motion transfer of power. That Fidel Castro, given his...
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Immigration, plus Castro
1. Wide pan left exterior of the Palacio de las Convenciones (Conference Centre)
2. Exterior of the Palacio de las Convenciones (Conference Centre)
3. Medium shot arrival US delegation
4. Medium shot US delegation walking
5. Wide...
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Delegates to Non-Aligned summit s'bites, comment on Castro
1. Wide billboard welcoming delegates to Havana
2. Police directing traffic
3. Policemen on street corner
4. Wide of summit site, Palacio de Convenciones
5. Medium wide security outside convention centre
6. Set-up Miguel Bonasso,...
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President criticises US immigration policy
1. Wide shot President Fidel Castro at podium at the Palacio de Convenciones
2. Wide shot audience
3. Medium shot audience clapping
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba:
"It seemed like the biggest day in the world, the...
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Florida Republican Congressional members gathered ahead of the President's State of the Union speech to voice their concern over US-Cuba diplomatic relations. (Jan. 20)
Florida Republican Congressional members gathered ahead of the President's State of the Union Speech to voice their concern over US-Cuba diplomatic relations.
This also comes as American and Cuban officials are exploring this week how...
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USA: WASHINGTON: SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE
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A watered-down version of a bill to moderately increase the U-S embargo on Cuba has been passed by the Senate in Washington.
Passage of the controversial "Libertad" bill, which was sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms, comes...
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: ENT1-ARTHUR MILLER IN CUBA
Span/Eng/Nat
American writers ARTHUR MILLER, WILLIAM STYRON, and Colombian literary great GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ found Cuban President Fidel Castro likes his dinner engagements to last as long as his legendary speeches when their supper...
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USA: LEGISLATION UNVEILED CALLING FOR END OF EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA
Spanish/Eng/Nat
A bipartisan group of congressmen on Wednesday unveiled legislation in Washington DC calling for an end to the U-S embargo on food and medicine to Cuba.
The move came as other congressmen debated legislative amendments...
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Sinn Fein president tours hospital, comments on politics.
1. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams at Cuba's Foreign Ministry meeting with Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque
2. Cutaway press
3. Various of Adams and Cuban officials
4. SOUNDBITE: (English - with Spanish translation) Gerry Adams,...
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CELAC summit closes, Latin and EU leaders discuss trade between two continents
1. Wide of conference room hosting Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and European Union (EU) economic summit
2. Wide of (left to right) European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Chilean President Sebastian...
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Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced in Havana on Tuesday that he was leaving Cuba after exhausting all possible avenues to try to win the release of American government sub-contractor Alan Gross.
HEADLINE: Fmr. NM Gov: Cuba 'denied' humanitarian gesture
CAPTION: Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced in Havana on Tuesday that he was leaving Cuba after exhausting all possible avenues to try to win the release of...
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Barbados - Castro joins parade during tour
On the second stop of his Caribbean goodwill tour, Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Saturday (01/08) joined a public procession to a memorial statue of Bussa, the leader of an 1816 slave revolt. Barbados' Prime Minister Owen Arthur has...
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US returns 15 migrants to Cuba after assurances they will not be executed
La Coloma, Cuba - FILE - July 16, 2003
1. Wide shot of port and boats
2. Medium of port and boats
Washington DC, USA - July 21, 2003
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Philip T. Reeker, State Department spokesperson:
"The Department of Homeland...
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Vice president on the health of Fidel Castro and the death of his friend, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fidel Castro was hit hard by last week's death of longtime friend and Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cuba's second in command said Friday.
Speaking in Havana as he signed a book of condolences at the...
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Opening of art museum by late artist Guayasamin, presidents attend
1. Wide of inaugural ceremony and crowds attending
2. Fidel Castro walking through art museum grounds during inaugural ceremony
3. Mid shot of crowd
4. Close up of Castro in suit and tie
5. Chavez arriving at museum inauguration
6....
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Pilot programme let residents test first microwaves in Cuba
1. Wide shot exterior of house
2. Mid of resident Ana Magdalena Melian standing in doorway
3. Mid of Melian entering dining room, opening fridge
4. Close up Melian peeling potatoes
5. Melian getting a glass and filling it with water
6....
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Cuban exiles in Florida react to transition of power in their homeland
At the epicenter of Cuba politics on the streets of Miami in little Havana outside Café Versailles, Cuban exiles shout from loudspeakers and rip up signs in protest of the communist country from which they hail.
"They want...
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VOICE: Mass evacuations as Hurricane Isidore hits Cuba
0.00 Shot of some of the houses and people outside during the storm
0.04 Various of streets during hurricane in Pinar del Rio, Cuba
0.17 Shot of some of the houses and people outside during the storm
0.22 Shot of a boat during the...
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PANAMA: IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT
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The Iberoamerican summit kicked off in Panama on Friday with the arrival of Cuban President Fidel Castro and his counterpart, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Both dignitaries touched down within minutes at Panama City's...
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Ex head of intelligence claims Chvez and Castro intend alliance
Lima -19 October 2006
1. Exterior of bookstore where former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos' book is being sold
2. Wide of interior of bookstore
3. Books
4. Tilt up of copies of Montesinos' book "Mud Idols"
5. Medium of person...
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Fidel Castro's son makes speech in South African capital
1. Wide shot of audience listening to lecture by son of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear scientist and eldest son of Fidel Castro:
"I will focus in two aspect during my...