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23 Jan 09

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Cuba has the highest rate of depression and suicide in the New World. So why does Castro’s vaunted health care system deny the very existence of mental illness on the island?

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05 Oct 08

Russia and Cuba Get Cozy

As tension over the Russian occupation of Georgia continues to simmer, Moscow is quietly stirring the embers of the Cold War in another part of the world — still-communist Cuba. In August, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and Russian Security Council Secretary General Nikolai Patrushev traveled to Havana and met with Cuban President Raul Castro.

Recently, Russia has expressed interest in reviving both economic and military ties with its erstwhile Caribbean client state, ties that languished after the implosion of the Soviet Union in the early ’90s. Cuba, for its part, is interested in cultivating partnerships with other regimes besides Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela. While Cuba has long resented what it regards as Moscow’s abrupt betrayal and abandonment of the Castro regime at the end of the Cold War, every indication points to a willingness on both sides to bury the hatchet. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Russia supposedly abandoned the huge Soviet-built Cuban electronic eavesdropping center at Lourdes, which was run by 1,500 Russian military and KGB/FSB technicians, but that has not been verified. But Cuba continues to monitor and jam American government and civilian signals and broadcasts — either from Lourdes or the Communist Chinese-built facility 20 miles from Havana.

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05 Nov 07

Iran, Cuba agree to set up shipping company - Irna

  • Iran and Cuba have reached an agreement to establish a joint shipping company, said an Iranian minister on Sunday.

    Minister of Commerce Masood Mirkazemi made the remark upon coming back Sunday evening from a four-day visit to Cuba and taking part in a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) commercial meeting there.

    The agreement will have a significant bearing on trade with Latin American countries which has recently expanded.

    He added that the shipping agreement is expected to help strengthen commercial bonds with states of that part of the world including Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.

    Mirkazemi said Venezuela needs Iran made commodities in the fields of construction materials and agriculture machinery, while Cuba is willing to buy transport wagons from Iran.

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