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| | Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The PCC leader, Fidel Castro, is both President of the Council of State (President of Cuba) and President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister of Cuba). | | | Cuba has a high abortion rate of 77.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 1996, 3rd highest in the world among 55 countries whose abortion rate was available to be compiled in a 1999 UN study. | | | Cuba was a Spanish possession for 388 years, ruled by a governor in Havana, with an economy based on plantation agriculture and the export of sugar, coffee and tobacco to Europe, and later to North America. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Cuba, (Portugal) |
| | Cuba is a municipality in The Republic of Portugal (República Portuguesa), or Portugal, is a democratic republic located on the west and southwest parts of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe; it is the westernmost country in continental Europe. | | | The President of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, is a... | | | Socialist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Luís Maria Bartolomeu Palma (The Socialist Party (Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. |
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| | Cuba - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cuba |
| | The federal government ruled that Gonzalez had to be returned to his father in Cuba, but his relations in the USA called for residency for the boy. | | | From 1511 Cuba was a Spanish colony, its economy based on sugar plantations worked by slaves, who were first brought from Africa in 1523 to replace the decimated Indian population. | | | Cuba was ceded to the USA in 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War. |
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| | Christopher Columbus - encyclopedia article about Christopher Columbus. |
| | He explored the south coast of Cuba, which he believed to be a peninsula rather than an island, and several nearby islands including the Isle of Youth (La Evangelista) before returning to Hispaniola on August 20. | | | In accordance with this theory, he named the island of Cuba after the Portuguese town Cuba in Alentejo — the town where he, according to Portuguese historians, had been born under the name of Salvador Fernandes Zarco (SFZ), son of Fernando, Duke of Beja, and Isabel Sciarra — and grandson of Cecília Colonna. | | | Columbus first presented his plan to the court of Portugal in 1485. |
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| | Politics of Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cuba is led by President Fidel Castro, who is Chief of State, Head of Government, First Secretary of the CPC, and commander in chief of the armed forces. | | | Politics of Cuba takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President is the [[head of government]. | | | Main articles: List of political parties in Cuba and Elections in Cuba. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Cuba resumes formal ties with Europe |
| | Relations between Cuba and Europe chilled after Cuba cracked down on the island's opposition in March 2003, rounding up and sentencing 75 dissidents to prison terms ranging from six to 28 years. | | | The United States and Cuba have not had diplomatic relations since shortly after Castro took over in 1959. | | | Although diplomatic ties with the European countries were never severed, high-level contacts between Cuba and many EU members were limited for more than 1{ years. |
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| | Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cuba has a high abortion rate of 77.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 1996, 3rd highest in the world among 55 countries whose abortion rate was available to be compiled in a 1999 UN study. | | | Tomás Estrada Palma was Cuba's first elected president. | | | Pre-Columbian Cuba was first visited by Europeans when explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Cuba for the first time on October 28, 1492, at the eastern tip, in the Cazigazgo of Baracoa. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Cuba |
| | Most travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba is banned by law. | | | The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the northern Caribbean that lies at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. | | | Cuba is notable for its national organic agriculture initiative, undertaken in order to feed a population faced with starvation. |
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| | Cuba, Portugal Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Looking For cuba portugal - Find cuba portugal and more at Lycos Search. | | | Look for cuba portugal - Find cuba portugal at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! | | | Find cuba portugal - Your relevant result is a click away! |
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| | Cuban foreign minister postpones visit to Portugal / Reuters - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News |
| | HAVANA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday it had postponed a visit to Portugal by Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque because it did not want to distract the Portuguese government from concentrating on events in East Timor. | | | He was carrying a personal invitation from Cuban President Fidel Castro to Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio and Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, asking them to attend an upcoming Ibero-American summit in Havana in November. | | | Cuban foreign minister postpones visit to Portugal / Reuters - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News |
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| | CUBA - LoveToKnow Article on CUBA |
| | The Spanish constitution of 1876 was proclaimed in Cuba in 1881. | | | Conslilution.The constitution upon which the government of Cuba rests was framed during the period of the United States military government; it was adopted the 21st of February i9oi~ and certain amendments or conditions required by the United States were accepted on the 12th of June 1901. | | | A constitutional convention sat at Havana from the 5th of November 1900 to the 2rst of February 1901. |
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| | BigSoccer Boards - Futsal WC Portugal vs Cuba [R] |
| | BigSoccer Boards - Futsal WC Portugal vs Cuba [R] Home | | | But Portugal continued to warm the hands of Carbo and force Cuba into conceding free-kicks. | | | Cuba were not without chances, a cleverly disguised pass by Amauri Morales sent Fernando Chapman down the right to test the sharp reflexes of Benedito. |
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| | Cuba - Amnesty International |
| | The latter mandates stiff prison terms for anyone found guilty of supporting US policy against Cuba. | | | In August, Cuba wrote to the EU saying that it would no longer accept development aid from the EU or its member states, as a rejection of the conditionality of EU aid on human rights improvements. | | | In a move that was interpreted by some as a response to such criticism, the US government announced the creation of a commission for a transition to democracy in Cuba and improvements in the broadcasting and distribution of printed materials to Cuba. |
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| | The Need to Maintain the U.S. Embargo |
| | The dictatorship in Cuba is economically bankrupt and obviously desperate. | | | In 1989, U.S. authorities captured 1,060 pounds of cocaine sent through Cuba to the United States. | | | In Cuba, where the judiciary is directly controlled by the communist party, the right to a fair trial is not guaranteed. |
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| | Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The PCC leader, Fidel Castro, is both President of the Council of State (President of Cuba) and President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister of Cuba). | | | Cuba has a high abortion rate of 77.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 1996, 3rd highest in the world among 55 countries whose abortion rate was available to be compiled in a 1999 UN study. | | | Cuba was a Spanish possession for 388 years, ruled by a governor in Havana, with an economy based on plantation agriculture and the export of sugar, coffee and tobacco to Europe, and later to North America. |
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| | advocate_dec_04.htm |
| | Awareness of Cuba issues promoted by the Coalition at City Hall, made the creation of the project much easier - it was endorsed by then mayor of Milwaukee John Norquist as well as a majority of the Common Council. | | | The Coalition was organized in 1994 by a number of people who had been to Cuba and/or were concerned about the heightened U.S. pressures on Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union. | | | Coalition members have also played key roles in establishing the Milwaukee-Nuevitas Association, a humanitarian project between the cities of Milwaukee and Nuevitas. |
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| | rhc-eng-10.14.98 |
| | TRADITIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA ACTIVITIES TO BE HELD DURING THE 8TH IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT IN OPORTO, PORTUGAL 3. | | | 157 nations voted in favor of Cuba's resolution, entitled "The need to bring an end to the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed against Cuba by the United States". | | | TRADITIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA ACTIVITIES TO HELD DURING THE 8TH IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT IN OPORTO, PORTUGAL Havana, October 14 (RHC)-- Cuban deputy Foreign Minister, Jorge Bolanos, says that solidarity with Cuba activities have become a tradition during Iberoamerican Summits, but each time support for the island increases. |
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| | CUBA - LoveToKnow Article on CUBA |
| | Cuba is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic in religion, but under the new Republic there is a complete separation of church and state, and liberalism and indifference are increasing. | | | The captaincy-general of Cuba was not originally, however, by any means so broad in powers as the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru; and by the creation in 1765 of the office of intendantthe delegate of the national treasury his faculties were very greatly curtailed. | | | Gradual abolition of slavery was declared by a law of the r3th of February 1880; definitive abolition in 1886; and in 1893 the equal civil status Of blacks and whites in all respects was proclaimed by General Calleja. |
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| | American Coalition for Fathers and Children: Elian Gonzalez Amicus Curiae Brief February 2000 |
| | Fundamental principles of justice, the laws of the United States and international law all call for his return to Cuba. | | | The ACFC strongly asserts that the best interests of the child in this case are to be reunited with his father, stepmother, half-sister and grandparents in Cuba. | | | The fact that Cuba may have a lower economic standard of living is not enough to constitute persecution; it would be the kind of condition common to many people in Cuba that Acosta held did not amount to persecution. |
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| | Cuba Solidarity: Truth About Cuba Coalition: Invitation |
| | Significant movement is occurring in Washington DC in relation to the blockade of Cuba. | | | We hope that you will consider joining our efforts to bring to Washington DC politicians and to others involved in Cuba related policies the perspective of the U.S. Cuba Solidarity and Progressive Movements. | | | Cuba is not a threat to the United States. |
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| | Communist Party of Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Communist Party of Cuba held its first Party Congress in 1975 and has had additional congresses in 1980, 1986, 1991 and 1997. | | | The Communist Party of Cuba has favored supporting communist revolutions abroad and was active in assisting the ELN in Colombia, the FMLN in El Salvador, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement in Grenada in the 1980s. | | | The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the ruling party of Cuba. |
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| | Interview with Clas Regeheim, Taurus Petroleum AB: TWST |
| | Currently we are active in Cuba, Portugal and Morocco. | | | We have a local representative in Portugal, and we have had a representative in Cuba but in general we run an extremely slim organization. | | | TWST: You mentioned that you have a presence in Portugal, Morocco and Cuba. |
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| | Cuba - Amnesty International |
| | However, the resolution was supported by many Latin American countries and for the first time Mexico voted in favour, prompting a diplomatic row with Cuba. | | | In October, the US House of Representatives voted to end travel restrictions on US citizens wanting to visit Cuba. | | | Cuba continued to express opposition to US control of the land on which the US naval base in Guantánamo is sited, but indicated that allowing the use of Cuban airspace by US planes was a gesture of goodwill on its part towards the global effort against “terrorism”. |
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| | Constitution of the Republic of Cuba 1992 |
| | Cuba is an independent and sovereign socialist state of workers, organized with all and for the good of all as a united and democratic republic, for the enjoyment of political freedom, social justice, individual and collective well-being and human solidarity. | | | The Republic of Cuba rejects and considers illegal and null all treaties, pacts and concessions which were signed in conditions of inequality, or which disregard or diminish its sovereignty and territorial integrity. | | | Strict fulfillment of the Constitution and the laws is an inexcusable duty of all. |
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| | Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism |
| | In referring to US policy toward Cuba, the delegate asserted, acts by states to destabilize other states is a form of terrorism. | | | The salient feature of Cubas behavior in this arena, however, is its refusal to render to US justice any fugitive whose crime is judged by Cuba to be political. | | | Cubas delegate to the UN said terrorism cannot be defined as including acts by legitimate national liberation movements -- even though many such groups clearly employ tactics that intentionally target innocent civilians to advance their political, religious, or social agendas. |
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| | About HRI |
| | This amendment was withdrawn but Cuba will return to the issue at the 2003 session. | | | Element: The Commission requested the High Commissioner to send a personal representative to Cuba in order to establish a cooperative approach between the OHCHR and the government in the implementation of the resolution; the personal representative is to submit a report to the 2003 session. | | | Cuba then withdrew this amendment and proposed, instead a motion to take no action (rule 65). |
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| | CNN - Castro's Cuba under fire at Ibero-American summit - November 16, 1999 |
| | Castro's government had been criticized at Tuesday's 16-nation Ibero-American summit by leaders from Spain and Portugal over Cuba's single-party system and its stance on human rights. | | | Castro, Cuba's only leader since the 1959 communist takeover, hopes the summit will boost the prestige of a country once shunned by many Latin American governments as a base for exporting revolution. | | | In the run-up to the summit, numerous officials, including Aznar and Rosario Green, foreign minister of Cuba's traditional ally Mexico, held unprecedented meetings with dissidents who had weathered a new crackdown, including dozens of arrests in recent days. |
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