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      <title>Cuban Penitentiary System Arouses Jurists' Interest</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:23:08 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/LookCuba/Articles/Society/2012/Cuban.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Havana, May 24, 2012.- Achievements and perspectives of the Cuban penitentiary system aroused interest of experts from over 14 nations attending the 6th International Justice and Law Meeting, which enters second day on Thursday.
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      <title>Cuban Five Case Winning Support in USA </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:22:05 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, May 24, 2012.- Academics from several countries joined today US colleagues to demand the release of the Five Cuban anti-terrorists jailed in their country and the end of the blockade on Cuba at the 30th Congress of the Association of Latin American Studies (LASA).
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      <title>Statement by Josefina Vidal, Head of United States Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:21:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/STATEMENT%20BY.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[We strongly reject the content of the report by the State Department on the situation of human rights in Cuba which the United States Government arrogates the right to issue, unaware of its own record of abuses within the country and in the world. 
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      <title>United States Fine Ericsson $1.75 Million for Violating Blockade against Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:07:17 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[UNITED STATES, May 24, 2012.- World number one mobile network equipment maker Ericsson's subsidiary in Panama will pay a $1.75 million penalty to the U.S. Department of Commerce for violating U.S. export restrictions on Cuba, according to a settlement agreement obtained by Reuters.
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      <title>Ministers of Health of Non Aligned Movement Call to Ensure Equity, Sustainable Financing and Universal Health Care</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:22:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/mayo/MINISTERS.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[GENEVA,  May 21, 2012.- During the 65th World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, May 21-25, the Fifth Health Ministerial Meeting of the Non Aligned movement was celebrated.  
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      <title>Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Seychelles and Cuba Hold Official Conversations</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:14:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  May 21, 2012.- H.E. Jean Paul Adam, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Seychelles, held, this morning, official conversations with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, as part of his visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>The 67th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-Fascism</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:13:42 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/The%2067th.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place. No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable. 
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      <title>Vice President Esteban Lazo Meets with Vice President of Zanzibar</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:13:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  May 13, 2012.- Esteban Lazo Hernández, Vice President of the Council of State, met this Saturday with Seif Ali Iddi, Vice Presidet of Zanzibar, semi-autonomous territory of the United Republic of Tanzania, during his official visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>The Horrible Things the Empire Offers Us</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:12:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/The%20Horrible.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A piece of news released by AP, the most important US news agency, dated today in Monterrey, Mexico, explains it with irrefutable clarity.  This is not the first, and certainly it won’t be the last, about a reality that puts paid to the mountain of lies with which the United States intends to justify the inhuman destiny it reserves for the peoples of our America.
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      <title>The Nobel Peace Laureate</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2012 16:44:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/The%20Nobel.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I will hardly refer to the Cuban people, who one day rid their country of the United States domain, when the imperialist system had reached the height of its power.
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      <title>New World Campaign to Demand Release of Cuban Five </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2012 16:42:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/New%20World.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[havana, May 6, 2012.-  Activists and organizations from all over the world have repeated over the past few hours their demand for the U.S. government to release the five Cuban antiterrorists sentenced to long prison terms in that country.
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      <title>Cuba, Mexico Relaunch Historic Ties </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2012 16:41:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, May 6, 2012.- Cuba and Mexico have experienced a relaunch of their friendship and collaboration during the week that has just ended, when the 13th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting between the two nations was held in Havana.

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      <title>Cuba and Ghana Celebrate Inter Chanceries Meeting</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2012 16:30:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  May 7, 2012.- First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Marcelino Medina, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Chris Kpodo, headed the Cuba-Ghana Interchancery Meeting at this capital. 
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      <title>Raúl Castro´s  Message for the Death of Tomás Borge</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 14:17:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Comrade Daniel Ortega Saavedra
President of the Republic of Nicaragua and Secretary General of Front for National Liberation 
Dear Daniel: 
We have known about the demise of our comrade Commander Tomás Borge, indefatigable fighter for the freedom and the Independence of Nicaragua and the unity of Our America. 
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      <title>Vice President Ramiro Valdés Leads Cuban Delegation to Tomás Borge Funeral </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 14:13:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[NICARAGUA, May 2nd, 2012.- The Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés, arrived to Managua to attend the funerals of Tomás Borge, dear friend of Cuba and its Revolution. 
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      <title>What Obama Knows </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 08:36:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/What.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The most demolishing article I have seen nowadays about Latin America was written by Renán Vega Cantor, full professor at the National Pedagogical University of Bogotá, which was published three days ago by the website ‘Rebelión’ under the title “Ecos de la Cumbre de las Américas” (Echoes of the Summit of the Americas).
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      <title>Olga Salanueva, Spouse of René González, Received by Uruguayan Chancellor </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 08:35:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/Olga%20Salanueva.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[URUGUAY, April 30, 2012.- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Luis Almagro, received in his office Oga Salanueva who is in Uruguay following an invitation by the Frente Amplio and the Uruguayan Workers Union. During the exchange, the spouse of the Cuban antiterrorist fighter denounced the current situation of the Cuban Five Heroes, who endure long prison sentences for defending their country from the violent actions organized in South Florida against Cuba. 
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Sends Message of Condolences to the People of Nicaragua for the Death of Tomás Borge </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 08:34:32 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/mayo/President_3.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, May 2nd, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of cuba sent a messge of condolences to his Nicaraguan counterpart for the death of Commander of the Revolution Tomás Borge. 
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      <title>Alarcón Reiterates Demand to the United States to Release the Cuban Five Heroes</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 08:30:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/Alarc%C3%B3n.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, May 2nd, 2012.- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, President of the Cuban Parliament, demanded to the United States to make justice in the case of the Cuban Five Heroes condemned in that country for fighting against terrorism. 
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      <title>Secretary General of Vietnam´s Communist Party Meets with Victor Gaute López</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:53:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/Secretary_2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[VIETNAM, April 24, 2012.- Secretary General of the Central Committee of Vietnam´s Communist Party (PCV), Nguyen Phu Trong, received Victor Gaute López, member of the Secretariat of Cuban Communist Party (PCC), who is in a work visit to Vietnam heading a delegation. ]]></description>
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      <title>Ricardo Alarcón Meets with His Ghanaian Counterpart</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:52:15 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/Ricardo%20Alarc%C3%B3n_2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, April 24, 2012.- Joyce Adelina Banford, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Ghana, appreciated this Monday, April 23, the collaboration offered by Cuba to Ghana in different spheres, during a meeting with Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, President of the National Assembly of People´s Power, intis capital. ]]></description>
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      <title>Statement made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:11:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/STATEMENTS%202.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba has known about the decision adopted by the Government of the Argentine Republic to expropriate, in accordance with its domestic law, 51 % of the shares owned by YPF Company, subsidiary of Spanish Repsol Company, which operates in Argentine territory. 
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      <title>Declaration of the Revolutionary Government: For the Second Independence</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:15:51 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsGovernment/2012/18-4-12.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Summit held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, gave evidence of the ever-growing abyss that exists between “Our America”, as Martí called it, and the “turbulent and brutal North that despises us”.  Cartagena witnessed a rebellion of Latin America and the Caribbean against the imposition of “one and a half government” which applied the imperial veto against the paragraphs of the Draft Final Declaration of the so-called Summit of the Americas that demanded the ceasing of the blockade and of Cuba’s exclusion from hemispheric events.
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      <title>Cuba Offers Condolences for Death of Ben Bella </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:15:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/Cuba%20Offers.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CUBA, April 18th, 2012. Cuba’s First Vice-President José Ramón Machado Ventura visited the Algerian embassy in Havana to sign on behalf of the Cuban government the book of condolences opened after the death of former president Ahmed Ben Bella.
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      <title>René Gonzalez Sends Message to the Cuban People after Returning to the U.S.</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:13:30 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Messages/2012/Rene.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CUBA, April 18th, 2012. Following a two-week visit granted on humanitarian grounds to his ill brother in Cuba, Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly held in the United States since 1998 —who is currently under three years of probation after serving 13 years in U.S. prisons—, sent a message to the Cuban people after returning last weekend to American territory.

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      <title>The Summit of the Guayaberas</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:31:43 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/THE%20SUMMIT.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ Obama, the first black president of the United States –who is, without any doubt, and intelligent, well educated and eloquent person-, made quite a few people believe that he was an emulator of Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King.
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      <title>Sweetened Realities that Fade Away</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:31:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/SWEETENED.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I was surprised today when I listened to the speech delivered by Jose Miguel Insulza in Cartagena. I thought that the person who was speaking on behalf of the OAS would at least claim some respect for the sovereignty of the peoples of this hemisphere which were for years colonized and cruelly exploited by colonial powers.
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      <title>René González Returned to the United States</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:30:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, April 13, 2012.- During today´s afternoon, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, René González Sehwerert, returned to the United States, after visiting our country for two weeks, time stablished by Federal judge of the District South of Florida, who authorized his trip last March, in accordance with the strict conditions established to his unjustified supervised freedom. 
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      <title>Solid Arguments for Gerardo´s Appeals </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:29:38 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Press/2012/SLID.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[By  Ana Ivis Galán García 

Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo´s Habeas Corpus or Appeals is more solid than ever thanks to new evidence found by the team of attorneys currently working on it. 
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      <title>To Sleep with Open Eyes</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:28:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/TO.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I took a good look at Obama in the famous “Summit Meeting”. Sometimes he was overcome by tiredness, he unwillingly shut his eyes but, at times, he slept with open eyes.
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      <title>Vietnamese Leader Meets with Fidel Castro  </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:57:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/VIETNAMESE.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Havana, April 13, 2012.-  General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong met with the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, whom he considered a brother.
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      <title>Interview with Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban Parliament</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:56:34 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/SpeechesContributions/RAQ/2012/1.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[By Salim Lamrani
 President of the Cuban Parliament since 1992, and member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada is, after President Raul Castro and First Vice-President Antonio Machado Ventura, third in line in the Cuban government. Professor of philosophy and a career diplomat, Alarcon spent nearly 12 years in the United States as the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations.]]></description>
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Receives Secretary General of Vietnam´s Communist Party</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:56:57 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/President%205.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, April 10, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of Cuban Communist Party and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, received Monday, April 9, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, Secretary General of Vietnam´s Communist Party, who is in an official visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>Ethiopian Leader Expresses Support to the Cuban Five</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:55:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, April 10, 2012.- The Speaker of the House of People´s Representatives, Abadula Gemeda Dago, stated that, like many African nations, he´s very active in the fight for the freedom of the Cuban Five Heroes. 
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      <title>Ricardo Alarcón Meets with Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives of Ethiopia</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:39:45 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/RICARDO.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  April 9, 2012.- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, President of the National Assembly of People´s Power, met this Sunday, April 8, with Abadula Gemeda Dago, Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives of Ethiopia. ]]></description>
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      <title>Nguyen Phu Trong Arrives to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:39:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/NGUYEN.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, April 9, 2012.- Nguyen Phu Trong, Secretary General of the Central Committee of Vietnam Communist Party, arrived to Cuba this Sunday, April 8, in an official visit. ]]></description>
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      <title>Stephen Harper’s Illusions</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:42:57 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/STEPHEN.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I think –and I do not intend to offend anyone- that this is how the Prime Minister of Canada is called.  I deduced it from a statement published on “Holy Wednesday” by a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of that country. The   United Nations Organization membership is made up by almost 200 States –allegedly independent States.  They continuously change or are forced into change.  Many of their representatives are honorable persons, friends of Cuba; but it is impossible to remember the specifics about each and every one of them. ]]></description>
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      <title>Huge Banner for the Cuban 5 on  Northern California Freeway</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:43:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/HUGE.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, April 9, 2012.- While people from all over the world were calling and sending emails to the White House demanding that Obama free the Cuban 5 antiterrorist fighters, the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5dropped a huge banner at morning rush hour over one of the busiest freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area.]]></description>
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Meets with OMS Director General </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:56:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/LookCuba/Articles/ScienceTechnology/2012/President.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, March 31, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met this afternoon, Friday, March 30th, with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, who´s visitig our country. 
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      <title>President Hugo Chávez Arrives to Cuba </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:55:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/abril/President.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, April 1, 2012.- President Raúl Castro Ruz welcomed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who arrived last night to Cuba to continue his radiotherapy treatment . 

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      <title>The Wonderful World of Capitalism</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:55:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/The%20Wonderful.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The search for the political truth will always be a difficult task even in our times, when science has placed in our hands a huge amount of knowledge. One of the most important was the possibility to know and study the fabulous power of the energy contained in matter.
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      <title>The New York Times Acknowledges Cuba as Key Element to Stop Cholera in Haiti</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:47:20 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/LookCuba/Articles/ScienceTechnology/2012/The%20New.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[UNITED STATES, April 1st, 2012.- An extense report by The New York Times on the health situation in Haiti recognizes that Cuba´s actions were key to detect the first cases of cholera and essential for the treatment of the epidemic that has killed more than  7 050 Haitians in 17 months. 
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      <title>René Arrived to the Homeland</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Press/2012/Ren%C3%A9.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This Friday, minutes after noon, René González Sehwerert, one of the Cuban Five antiterrorist fighters unjustly condemned to long sentences in United States jails, arrived to the Homeland in a private and familiar visit. ]]></description>
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      <title>Remarks by President Raúl Castro: On behalf of our nation I offer you the warmest welcome</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:47:43 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://benedictocuba.cubaminrex.cu/en/articles/remarks-president-ra%C3%BAl-castro-behalf-our-nation-i-offer-you-warmest-welcome</link>
      <description><![CDATA[His Holiness:
Cuba welcomes you with affection and respect, and is honoured by your presence. Here you will find a fraternal and educated people bent on attaining full justice, and sparing no sacrifices to accomplish it.
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Welcomes Pope Benedict XVI </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:00:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://benedictocuba.cubaminrex.cu/en/articles/president-ra%C3%BAl-castro-welcomes-pope-benedict-xvi-streaming</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, March 26, 2012.- President Raúl Castro welcomed Pope Benedict XVI who arrived this afternoon to Cuba. Alitalia airplane arrived from Mexico at 2:25 pm (local time).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:54:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/PressConferences/Bruno/2012/2012-03-23.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Gustavo Machín (Moderator).-  We´re at the opening ceremony of the press center at Hotel Nacional in Havana and Hotel Meliá in Santiago de Cuba. 

The apostolic visit by Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Head of State of the City of Vatican to our country, as you know, will occur during  March 26-28. 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:04:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/PressConferences/Bruno/2012/Press%20Conference.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[(Typographical version: Council of State)
Gustavo Machín (Moderator) - Good morning to all those present.
Minister of Foreign Relations Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla will give a statement to the press; I will therefore cede the floor to him.
Bruno Rodríguez - Good morning.
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      <title>Details about Presentation of Fidel Castro’s Book </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:50:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Others/2012/Details.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  March 12, 2012.- Argentine academic Atilio Borón and Cuban-American lawyer Jose Pertierra will be panelists at next Wednesday”s launch of the book “Nuestro Deber Es Luchar” (Our Duty Is to Fight), by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.
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      <title>Welcome to Cuba His Holiness Benedict XVI</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:07:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Havana, March 11, 2012

The Cuban people will welcome next Monday, March 26, with affection and respect, the Pope Benedict XVI, Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Head of State of the City of the Vatican, as invitee of the Government and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba. 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:32:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/marzo/Ra%C3%BAl%20Castro.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  March 8, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Cruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met yesterday March 7, with H.E. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of the Republic of Colombia, who is in a work visit to our country.]]></description>
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      <title>President of Colombia Expresses the Lack  of Consent around Cuba´s Attendance to the Summit of the Americas</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:31:57 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/marzo/President3.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  March 8, 2012.- President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, expressed this Wednesday, March 7th, prior to departing to his country, that there´s no consent about the presence of Cuba in the Summit of the Americas and that´s why “it´s difficult to convey an invitation”. ]]></description>
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      <title>Letter from René González to his Seriously Ill Brother Roberto </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:30:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Press/2012/Letter_2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[24 February 2012
My Brother for life,
I never thought I would have to write this letter. We share the same lack of enthusiasm for letter writing, a fact clearly demonstrated during our respective internationalist missions and – more conclusively – in the unique experience of the last 20 years. In other words, only conditions as extraordinary as the present ones induce me to write.
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      <title>President of Ukraine Meets with Cuban Vice President of the Council of Ministers</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:12:56 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/President_13.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[UKRAINE, February 29, 2012.- The President of Ukraine, Víctor Yanukovich, meet this Wednesay with the Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Marino Murillo Jorge, who is in an official visit to Kiev following an invitation by Ukrainian authorities. ]]></description>
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      <title>XVI Marathon Terry Fox Officially Announced </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:12:55 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/XVI%20Marathon.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  February 29, 2012.- In a press conference at the International Press Center, the Organizing Committe of Marathon for Hope “Terry Fox” announced its XVI edition to be held in March 10. As it´s traditional, the departure is set for 10:00am through all the country. 
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      <title>Statement by H.E. Mr. Abelardo Moreno, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, in the 19th Session of the Human Rights Council. Geneva, 1 March, 2012</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:12:55 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Multilaterales/Articulos/SocioHumanitarios/HumansRights/2012/Statement.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Madame Chairperson,
The conceptual development of human rights has enormously advanced, but very little has been done in ensuring their genuine exercise. We have turned the subject into one of the pillars of the United Nations, next to development, peace and international security. Nevertheless, it is one of the areas that have paid the greatest costs due to ideological manipulation, political hypocrisy and the double standard of developed countries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:49:23 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/PRESIDENT%203.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 24, 2012.- President Raúl Castro Ruz met yesterday evening, February 23rd, with Honorable Senators, Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Chairman of Judiciary Committee, and Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), ranking member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, who visit Cuba as part of a delegation of senators and representatives of the United States Congress. 
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Sends Condolences for the Death of Soviet Leader Vitali Vorotnikov</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:48:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/president2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 22, 2012.-  President Raúl Castro Ruz sent a condolences message for the demise of Soviet ex leader Vitali Vorotnikov, whom he qualified as  a dear friend to Cuba. 
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      <title>Esteban Lazo Meets with the President of Ghana</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:46:08 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Esteban.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 22, 2012.- Vice President of the Council of State, Esteban Lazo Hernández, met this afternoon, Monday, February 21, with H.E. Kofi Awoonor, President of the Council of State of the Republic of Ghana, who is in a visit to our country. 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:45:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Cuba%20and%20Peru.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 21, 2012.- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, President of the National Assembly of People´s Power, held a meeting Monday evening with Daniel Abugattás Majluf, President of the Congress of Peru, who is in an official visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>President of the Peruvian Congress Supports the Cuban Five Liberation </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:43:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Articles/Solidarity/2012/President.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 22, 2012.- Daniel Abugattás Majluf, President of the Parliament of Peru, expressed the Cuban Five Case “is an issue that provokes outrage, it´s an abuse; that´s why we should continue dialoguing, and advocating to find a solution”. 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:46:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Cuban%20VP.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CHINA, February  21th, 2012. The Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Marino Murillo, is expected to meet Tuesday in Beijing with the permanent member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Li Changchun
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      <title>Statement by Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/statement20212.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[El Mundo newspaper, in its Sunday edition dated February 19th, published an interview to Foreign Minister of Spain, José Manuel García-Margallo, who used disrespectful and interfering expressions on human rights and the state of law in Cuba. 
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      <title>First Vice President of Cuba Meets with Vice President of Seychelles</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:56:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/First.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 14, 2012.- First Vice President of the Councils of State and Minister, José Ramón Machado Ventura, held official conversations during this Monday afternoon, with H.E. Danny Faure, Vice President of the Republic of Seychelles, who is in an official visit to our country. ]]></description>
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      <title>ALBA Minister of Foreign Affairs Meet in Havana</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:35:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/ALBA.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 15, 2012.- Minister of Foreign Affairs and senior officials from the Bolivarian Alliance  for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA, in Spanish) gathered today in this capital to discuss issues like integration and from the common agenda. ]]></description>
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      <title>First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Meets with the President of the Council of State of Ghana</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:51:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/First%20Deputy.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 13, 2012.- During this morning, Marcelino Medina González, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with H.E. Kofi Awoonor, President of the Council of State of the Republic of Ghana, who´s visiting our country. 

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      <title>Association of Caribbean States Condemns U.S. Blockade to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:51:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Association.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, February 10, 2012.- The 17th Ordinary Meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States unanimously approved a Declaration on the Necessity to put an end the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba.
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      <title>Vice President of Seychelles Visits Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:50:18 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Vice%20President.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  February 13, 2012.- During last February 10th afternoon, H.E. Danny Faure, Vice President of the Republic of Seychelles, arrived to Cuba in an official visit. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:49:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Cuba%20and%20Norway.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  February 13, 2012.- Hege Araldsen, Director General for Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, carried out a work visit to Cuba during which the execution of diverse bilateral cooperation projects was evaluated. 
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      <title>Raúl Castro Meets with Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:11:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Ra%C3%BAl%20Castro.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 10, 2012.-  Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met yesterday evening with H.E. Jorge Lara Castro, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Paraguay, who is in an official visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Meets with Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:48:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/president3.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  February 9, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met yesterday afternoon with H.E. María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia, who is in an official visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>President  of Angola Meets with Cuban Ambassador</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:47:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/President_5.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ANGOLA, February 9, 2012.- President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, met this February 8 with the Cuban Ambassador to that country, Pedro Ross Leal, who ends his tour of duty after five years. 
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      <title>Interview by Fernando Ravsberg to Johana Tablada, Deputy Director for North America at the Cuban Chancery</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:45:48 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/INTERVIEW.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  February 9, 2012.- Johana Tablada, Deputy Director for North America at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, granted us an interview to discuss about the United States economic Embargo against Cuba, which has just arrived to its 50th anniversary under ten US Presidents. 
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      <title>Cuba and Paraguay Reinforce Bilateral Relations</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:29:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/CUBA%20AND%20PARAGUAY.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 9, 2012.- As an opportunity to strengthen the bilateral ties and the unity among Latin American peoples, the minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Paraguay, Jorge Lara Castro, qualified his visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>Colombia´s Minister of Foreign Affairs Visits Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:46:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/Colombia%C2%B4s.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  February 7, 2012.-  H.E. María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia, will arrive this evening to our country in an official visit.  
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      <title>Statement by Director a.i for Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Elio Rodríguez Perdomo, in relation with recent declarations on Cuba by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:00:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/Statement_3.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[February 6, 2012

We have known  through the press on the unfortunate declarations in relation to our country issued to a journalist in Geneva from the O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper by Mrs. Catherine Ashton, European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy.
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      <title>Special Statement on the Cuban Five Heroes </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:25:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/Special.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CARACAS, February 5, 2012

The Heads of State and Government of the countries members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America- Comerce with the Peoples Treaty, gathered in Caracas, on February 4-5, 2012, expressed their solidarity with the Cuban Five Heroes who suffer political condemnations in United States´ prisons for fighting against terrorism and whose case in known worldwide. 
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      <title>Fidel Castro Launches Memoirs “Guerrillero del tiempo”</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:24:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Others/2012/Fidel%20Castro.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 5, 2012.- The leader of the Cuban Revolution launched in this capital two volumes of his memories “Fidel Castro Ruz: Guerrillero del tiempo”.
The volumes which have around a thousand pages open with the first memories of the leader's childhood, and they close on Dec 1958, before the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959. These memories were the result of his conversations with Katiuska Blanco, writer and journalist.
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      <title>President Raul Castro Arrived in Cuba </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:20:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/President%20Raul%20C.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 6, 2012.-  Cuban President Raul Castro arrived in this capital from Venezuela, where the XI Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas took place.
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Farewells Dilma Rousseff </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:41:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/febrero/President_2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, February 2nd,  2012.- Army General Raúl Castro, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, accompanied, yesterday morning, February 1st, at the International Airport José Martí, the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, who departed to the Republic of Haiti. 
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      <title>Danny Glover Denounces Silence on the Cuban Five Case</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:40:51 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/danny.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 31, 2012.- A new video by Danny Glover published in his Youtube channel, recalls the injustice against the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States. 
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      <title>The 5 of February for the Cuban 5</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:40:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/5PoliticalPrisoners/Articles/Solidarity/2012/The%205.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This month the 5th falls on a Sunday and the offices of the White House will be closed. To achieve a greater impact we ask you to  join in this coordinated action on Monday  February 6  
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      <title>Brazilian President Visits Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:56:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/enero/Brazilian_2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 31, 2012.- The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, began this Monday, an official visit to Cuba, during which the bilateral ties will strengthen in different spheres, especially in the economy and commerce. 
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      <title>Cuba’s Truths</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:46:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/Cuba.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Havana, January 23, 2012
Over the last few days, the media and representatives of certain governments traditionally committed to anti-Cuba subversion have unleashed a new campaign of accusations, unscrupulously taking advantage of a lamentable event: the death of an ordinary prisoner, which possibly only in the case of Cuba, is converted into news of international repercussion.
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      <title>Informative Note </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:25:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/Informative.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This January 19th, inmate Wilman Villar Mendoza, who was serving a sentence for committing common crimes, died at the intensive-care unit of the Clinical and Surgical Hospital “Doctor Juan Bruno Zayas” in Santiago de Cuba at 18:45hrs, due to a multiple organ failure that was followed by a severe septic respiratory process, which caused a septic shock to the patient. 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:56:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Statements/Articulos/StatementsMINREX/2012/Statements.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 21, 2012.- Cuba described as unacceptable the statements of the Spanish Government that does not have the slightest moral authority to judge the Caribbean nation.
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      <title>Cuba Seizes Nine Tons of Drugs in 2011</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:53:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/ArticlesOfInterest/2012/Cuba.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Francisco Arias Fernández
HAVANA, January 20, 2012.- High demand in the United States, the world's largest consumer of narcotics, which stimulates shipments along international drug routes in the vicinity of Cuba’s borders, contributed to the dramatic increase in drugs washed up on national coasts, comprised the bulk of the 9,181 kg seized in 2011.
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      <title>Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Attends Gambia´s Presidential Inauguration</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:45:20 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/enero/Cuban%20Deputy_2.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[GAMBIA, January 19, 2012.- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcos Rodríguez Costa, presided over the Cuban delegation to Gambia´s official presidential inauguration of  Yahya AJJ Jammeh, this Thursday, January 19, at the Central Stadium in this capital.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:44:41 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/enero/Holy%20See.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  January 20, 2012.- A delegation from the Holy See presided over by Dr. Alberto Gasbarri, responsable for the organization of the international pontific trips, arrived to Cuba. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:44:22 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Actualidad/2012/enero/President%20Raul.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 18, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met yesterday morning, January 17, with Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, who is in an official visit to Cuba. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:28:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://europa.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/THE%20BEST.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A well-known European news agency yesterday published from Sydney, Australia that a group of Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales announced the creation of an electrical cable ten thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, capable of carrying as much electricity as a traditional copper cable.
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:28:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://europa.cubaminrex.cu/English/FidelAbsolvedHistory/Articulos/Reflections/2012/World%20Peace.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the pleasure of conversing leisurely with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I hadn’t seem him since September of 2006, more than five years ago, when he visited our country to participate in the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit which took place in Havana, when Cuba was elected for a second time to the Presidency of this organization for a three year term. 
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      <title>Cuban Interests Section Denounces Editorial Distorting Facts on Cuba </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:18:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[UNITED STATES, January 1, 2012.-  The Cuban Interests Section in Washington has denounced an editorial published by The Washington Post on December 31st that distorts the facts on Cuba, especially the case of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters.
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      <title>President of Iran Ends Visit to Cuba</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:05:01 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January  12, 2012.- The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ended today his official visit to Cuba, and departed to Ecuador  which is his last stop in Latin America. 
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Meets with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:04:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 12, 2012.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, met last night, January 11, with H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who is in an official visit to Cuba. 
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI to visit Cuba next March 26-28</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:33:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 3, 2012.- As it was informed last December 12, 2011, Pope Benedicto XVI expressed his intention to make an apostolic visit Cuba and Mexico. 
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      <title>North Korean Ambassador to Cuba Decorated with Friendship Medal</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:33:04 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 4, 2012.- During today´s morning, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, following a proposal by the Council of State, decorated the Ambassador of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea, Comrade Kwon Sung Chol, with the Friendship Medal. 
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      <title>Cuba: Infant Mortality at 4,9 in 2011</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:32:06 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, JAnuary 4, 2012.- For the fourth consecutive year, Cuba maintained its infant mortality rate under 5.0 as it finished 2011 with 4.9 deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.
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      <title>Vice President Esteban Lazo Heads Delegation to Jamaican Prime Minister Inauguration</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:31:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, January 5, 2012.- The Vice President of the Council of State, Esteban Lazo Hernández, heads the Cuban delegation to the inauguration  of Jamaica´s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, this Thursday, January 5th, in Kingston
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      <title>President Evo Morales Holds Friendly Meeting at Cuban Embassy in Bolivia </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:30:16 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[BOLIVIA,  January 5, 2012.- Bolivian President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Choquehuance, conveyed their congratulations to Ambassador Rolando Gómez for the 53 anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, during a visit both Bolivian authorities made to the Cuban Embassy. 
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      <title>Statement by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcos Rodríguez Costa</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:55:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba strongly condenms the criminal attempts with car bombs in the city of Damasco, Syria, which has killed and injured tens of people. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:55:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[CHINA,  December 25, 2011.- The Vice President of the Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas arrived today to this capital in an official visit to participate at the 24th session of the Inter-Governmental Commission Cuba-China for the economic-commercial relations. ]]></description>
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      <title>President Raúl Castro Signs Condolences Book for the Death of Kim Jong IL</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, December 23, 2011.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist party and President of the Councils of State and Ministers , visited yesterday afternoon the Embasy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to sign the condolences book for the death of comrade Kim Jong IL, President of the Committee for Natinoal Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Secretary General of the Workers Party of Korea. ]]></description>
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      <title>Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Cuba and Ecuador Hold Official Conversations </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, December 22, 2011.- Yesterday afternoon, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, the minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, and the minister of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Integration of Ecuador, Ricardo Armando Patiño Aroca, held official conversations. ]]></description>
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      <title>Raul Castro Receives Delegation of the Vatican </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:53:31 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, 19 December 2011.- Cuban President Raul Castro met on Sunday in this capital with a delegation of the Holy See, on an official visit to Cuba to coordinate the next trip to the Caribbean island of Pope Benedict XVI, scheduled for early 2012.  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:10:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, December 8, 2011.-  Army General Raul Castro, President of the Councils of State and Ministers  arrived to Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, December 7, around 10am, to carry out an official visit to that Caribbean nation. 
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      <title>Cuba and Vietnam Consolidate Parliamentary Relations</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:19:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA, December 6, 2011.-  The Vice President of the National Assembly of People´s Power, Jaime Cormbet, met this Monday with his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Thin Kim Ngan, who qualified as excellent the relations between Vietnam and Cuba. 
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      <title>Cuba Works for a Future with Peace and Development</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Dec 2011 15:38:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[VENEZUELA,  December 2nd, 2011.- “In the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Cuba will work with dedication and altruism for a future with peace and justice, and for the will to maintain the independence of what José Martí called Our america”, expressed Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba. 
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      <title>President Raul Castro Ruz Heads Delegation to  Latin American and Caribbean Countries Summit</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:21:04 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[HAVANA,  December 2, 2011.- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, presides the Cuban delegation to participate at the III Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean, on Demceber 2-3, in Caracas, Venezuela. 
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      <title>President Raul Castro meets with Angolan National Assembly President </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:05:45 -0500</pubDate>
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