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Weekly Report - 17 July 2014 (WR-14-28)
CUBA: Putin revels in symbolism of Havana trip
“In the international arena, we agree with the current policy of strength and political intelligence that the Soviet Union — I mean Russia — is carrying out.” Arguably, it was an understandable slip-up for President Raúl Castro to make as he heaped platitudes on his visiting peer Vladimir Putin, who was in Cuba for the first time since 2000, to “recover lost possibilities”. Across the way in Miami, the US media could not resist harking back to Cold War metaphors, and history seemed to come back to life as it was reported that Russia planned to re-open the old Lourdes intelligence base near Havana, used by the USSR to spy on the US during the Cold War. “Russia can meet its defence needs without this component,” Putin responded in Brazil as we went to press, denying the by-now global report.
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