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Weekly Report - 23 February 2012 (WR-12-08)
CUBA: Cartagena sun could offset frosty ties with Spain
The Cuban paper Granma ran a front page piece on 20 February showing police wrestling protesters to the ground. Bemused foreign readers will quickly have been disabused of any momentary notion that Cuba had acquired a free press overnight by the caption underneath explaining that the picture depicted Spanish police brutally repressing protesting students in the city of Valencia. Granma dutifully went on the attack in the wake of criticism of the human rights situation in Cuba by the Spanish foreign affairs minister, José Manuel García-Margallo. The Cuban government was always going to lose its key ally in the European Union (EU) after the right-wing Partido Popular (PP) government came to power in Spain late last year but it is clearly hoping to mitigate this loss by deepening ties with Latin America: it wants to secure an invitation to the Summit of Americas hosted by Colombia in Cartagena in April.
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