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Parliamentary members meet in Cuba
19 September 2002
1. Eusebio Leal, Historian of Old Havana, addressing opening ceremony of the Interparliamentary Union
2. Head of delegation of PAN party (Partido de Acciè´¸n Nacional) Cecilia Romero, sat in between Eusebio Leal and...
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CUBA: ILLINOIS STATE GOVERNOR GEORGE RYAN - 5 DAY VISIT
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Illinois State Governor George Ryan has said that Cuba's main problem is Fidel Castro, whose forty years of 'communist rule' have 'left their mark' on the Cuban people.
His comments came after a rare public meeting...
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CUBA: REACTIONS TO LOOSENING IN HOSTILE US LAWS
Spanish/Nat
Cubans on Tuesday reacted cautiously to a loosening in hostile U-S laws that have made their lives a daily struggle.
U-S President Bill Clinton announced a series of steps designed to increase contact between the...
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Classic cars from as far back as the 1930s join in annual rally
Car enthusiasts from Cuba and around the world met in Havana on Sunday for a classic car rally.
Over 70 vehicles dating back to the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s gathered to celebrate the 9th Annual Havana Rally organised by the local Cuban...
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Cuba announced on Thursday it would allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution. It's the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes under President Raul Castro.
HEADLINE: New law will let Cubans buy and sell real estate
CAPTION: Cuba announced on Thursday it would allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution. It's the most important reform yet...
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Castro marks Latin America Health Day
1. Wide exterior Latin American Medical School, Havana
2. Medium shot Fidel Castro handing out diplomas
3. Cutaway clapping
4. Cutaway Doctors with diplomas
5. Cutaway audience
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Eduardo Yepez, Pan American...
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Cuba - Rumour of Castro death quashed
Rumours that Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, had died were categorically denied by senior figures within the ruling communist regime this week. The claims surfaced during a television report by a station in Miami, Florida, but Havana...
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CUBA: U-S ATTORNEY GENERAL UPHOLDS ELIAN GONZALEZ DECISION
Spanish/Nat
U-S Attorney General Janet Reno's has upheld the decision by immigration officials that gave custody of the six-year-old boy to his father in Cuba.
Earlier this week, a judge in Florida contradicted a decision by immigration...
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Marchers in Havana mark Anti Homophobia Day
1. Travelling shot inside Anti-Homophobia Parade in Havana
2. Mid of performers on stilts dancing
3. Tilt down from performers on stilts to drag queen rolling on floor dancing
4. Wide shot of parade float
5. Mid of parade float...
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CUBA: HAVANA: GROUP 77 SUMMIT ENDS
French/Span/Nat
Leaders of the world's developing nations are uniting to demand a greater say in the global economic system.
The move came towards at the end of a three day summit in communist Cuba which has seen the group expand from a...
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Latam leaders gather at summit to induct Venezuela into trade bloc
1. Wide shot of Mercosur trade bloc meeting
2. Cuban president Fidel Castro before his entrance to meeting
3. Wide shot of Mercosur meeting
4. Argentinian president Nestor Kirchner sitting at meeting
5. Wide shot of Mercosur meeting
6....
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Cuba: Bay of Pigs: Cuba and U-S veterans meet on friendly terms
Havana and Bay of Pigs -Cuba- 21 March 2001 and File
21 March - Havana
1. Gulfstream air plane arriving from the U-S
2. Former CBS correspondent during the Bay of Pigs, Daniel Schorr stepping off the plane
3. Wide of Schorr and Jean...
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CUBA: CZECH SENATE MEETS WITH LOCAL DISSIDENTS
Czech/Nat
The speaker of the Czech senate is in Cuba to discuss the release of two nationals, arrested for meeting local dissidents.
Petr Pithart is to discuss the fate of Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik with Cuban top representatives,...
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CUBA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE: FATHER
Spanish/Nat
Juan Miguel Gonzalez has left Cuba for the United States on a journey that raises the possibility he will regain temporary custody of his son, Elian.
His journey comes more than four months after the 6-year-old boy's rescue...
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Cubans prepare for lifting of travel restriction that forced them to get exit visas
10 January 2013
1. Wide of Immigration Office exterior in Havana
2. Mid of people reading information board outside Immigration Office
3. Various of people waiting in line for passports and to fill out forms
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose...
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Just a day after the Presidents of the United States and Cuba agree to re-establish full diplomatic relations, the impact of the historic shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island after a half-century of enmity is becoming clearer. (Dec. 18)
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The historic realignment of Cuban-US relations, announced by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro Wednesday, heralds changing political, economic and social ties between the two countries...
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VENEZUELA: IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT: DEMOCRACY IS FOCUS OF TALKS
Spanish/Nat
Cuba's president Fidel Castro on Saturday told leaders from Latin America, Spain and
Portugal, that Communism would remain the rule of law in Cuba.
Castro was speaking at a two-day Ibero-American summit on the Caribbean...
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SPAIN: CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST SANCHEZ PRESS CONFERENCE
Spanish/Nat
The international community should join with opponents and supporters of Cuban President Fidel Castro to push for a peaceful transition to democracy, said a leading Cuban human rights activist on Monday.
Elizardo Sanchez...
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Official mourning and reaction to the death of Raul Castro's wife
AP Television
1. Zoom out Cuban flag at half mast in Revolution Square
2. Medium shot flag at half mast at Interior Ministry building in Revolution Square
Cubavision
3. Wide of memorial service for Vilma Espin
4. Close up of acting...
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China's Vice President hosts his Cuban counterpart
1. Wide of Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao and Cuba's Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel walking to dais for welcoming ceremony
2. Wide pan of welcoming ceremony
3. Close of Li and Diaz-Canel
4. Various of Li and Diaz-Canel inspecting...
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Non Aligned Summit, Eu-Us Summit, G8, Climate
Acting Cuban President Raul Castro stood in for his brother at the September opening of the Non-Aligned Summit which brings together more than a hundred of the world's developing nations. After acknowledging his brother's illness, Raul...
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ENTERTAINMENT DAILY: ENT1- MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Span/Eng/Nat
STORY: Manic Street Preachers
LOCATION: Havana, Cuba
DATE: 16, 17 February 2001
Radical Welsh rockers the MANIC STREET PREACHERS have staged a rare and extremely loud rock concert in communist Cuba for around 2,000 fans,...
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Cuba is ready to buy American food and medicine
1. Wideshot of meeting
2. Closeup of sign reading: "No ALCA" "No to Free Trade of the Americas"
3. Fidel Castro speaking on the phone
4. Close up of applauding audience
5. Fidel Castro entering meeting
6. Various of meeting and...
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APTN speak to Cuba's former ambassador to the UN
Washington DC - 13 August, 2002
1. Various shots of Alcibiades Hidalgo working at computer
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alcibiades Hidalgo, Cuban Dissident and former Cuban Ambassador to the UN:
"The decision to break my ties with a political...