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Cubanet
A Mercenary and Dangerous Old Man
By Leonel Alberto Pérez Belette
Havana (May 2008 – Cubanet) Members of the political police harassed an 80 year old opponent in his own home to prevent him from blemishing the festivities of the first of May.
Alfredo Guilleuma Rodriguez has become a "danger" for the authorities of the state. So much so that the State decided to place to two police officers and a member of the Committee of Defense of the Revolution (CDR) on his doorstep with the objective to stop him from leaving his dwelling on May Day.
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Cubanet
Reflections on Fidel Castro
Tania Diaz Castro
HAVANA, Cuba, April, (www.cubanet.org) - In 1959, after traveling triumphantly through the island dressed like a guerrilla, bearded, with a rosary around his neck, Fidel Castro was seen by many as the new Messiah. |
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We all want to know
In a store where goods are sold in CUCs (convertible pesos) located in La Puntilla, on the corner of First Avenue and Zero Street, in Miramar, by the municipal beach, people are lost in the contemplation of a special bin of apples from Virginia, USA. The large, red apples seem more like wax table decorations for the center of table. They beckon deliciously, but they cost 0.40 CUC. |
Cubanet
One Step Back
We welcome the news that Fidel Castro has stepped down as Cuban leader. Forty-nine years as the head of a dictatorial regime which has deprived the nation of truly free elections is hardly an honorable mark of distinction.
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The Uncertain Future of Cuba
By Dolia Leal Francisco
HAVANA, Cuba, February (www.cubanet.org) - Most studies of the current Cuban situation agree that in the, short-term, there will be important changes in the country. |
Felipe Perez Roque Admits that the Dual Monetary System is Unjust
HAVANA, Cuba, January 24, 2008, Alvaro Yero Felipe, (Free Association Agency / www,cubanet.org ) -The Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Felipe Pérez Roque, stated in front of some 60 people that the circulation of the two types of currency on the island prevents citizens from acquiring basic necessities. |
• Apparent Calm by Laritza Diversent
January 11, 2008
HAVANA,
Cuba – The tranquility that one might
sense at the moment from Cuba’s political
landscape is hardly synonymous with calm. The
significance of certain facts, which have been
mostly overlooked, is evidence of the regime’s
fear and insecurity. The stale image of Fidel
Castro that displays his biographical information
in the massive campaign for his nomination as
a national deputy has invoked indignation and
laughter. |
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CUBAN
PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, JUAN CARLOS HERRERA ACOSTA,
FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE
Personal testimony
November 16, 2007, APLO Press
Kilo 8 Prison, Camagüey, Cuba |
The
Miami Herald
• Minnesota's agriculture commissioner going to
Cuba
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Huge migrant tent city planned for Gitmo
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CIA to honor Bay of Pigs vets at its art gallery
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Appeal deals blow to Cuban father
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Media group criticizes acts by Cuba, Venezuela
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Cuba,
Venezuela Increase Economic Ties
Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez and Cuba's interim leader
Raul Castro oversaw the signing Monday of economic
partnerships in areas ranging from oil production
to tourism as the nations moved to further integrate
their economies.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuba
may be considering a more market-driven economy
Two dozen
theater workers recently sat around a sun-splashed
garden cafeteria in the Vedado neighborhood. They
had been summoned by bosses to discuss Cuba's
economic woes.
Ray Sánchez,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel. |
US
challenges Castro to have dialogue with people
The United
States on Monday challenged ailing Cuban President
Fidel Castro to hold dialogue with his people,
following his much publicized live media appearance
with his Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez.
Yahoo! News. |
Long-absent
Castro speaks live on TV
Cubans
heard their ailing President Fidel Castro joking
and chattering as he spoke live for the first
time in months on a television show hosted by
his Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez.
Yahoo! News. |
Chávez
destabilizes, and U.S. pays bill
Chávez
is following Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's script
-- create conflicts with domestic and foreign
''enemies'' and claim you are defending a larger-than-life
revolution in order to stay in power forever.
Only difference is, with oil prices at a record
$87 a barrel, Chávez is doing it with tons of
money.
Andres Oppenheimer,
.The Miami Herald. |
Cuba's
upcoming elections are neither free nor fair
People
in Need, a Czech human rights and development
NGO, calls upon the media and policy makers not
to confuse the elections in Cuba with what are
commonly called elections in democratic countries.
People in
Need. |
Parliamentary
Elections in today's Cuba
It is a
well-known that Cuba's current political system
originates from the Constitution of 1975, which
went into effect in 1976.
René Gómez
Manzano. |
Municipal
elections in Cuba
Elections
for delegates of the municipal assemblies of People's
Power have begun in Cuba. These elections are
of considerable importance for two reasons.
René Gómez
Manzano. |
October
6
The
Miami Herald
• 2 used 'church' to violate Cuba travel ban
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Fidel, Cuba pay homage to Che
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Plan for post-Castro Cuba outlined
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Canadian firms offer Cuban healthcare to U.S.
Canadian patients
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Bush
calls for release of all Cuba's political prisoners
President
George W. Bush Wednesday called for the release
of Jose Luis Garcia Paneque and all other political
prisoners held in Cuba, after meeting the dissident
reporter's family at the White House.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuba
may be considering a more market-driven economy
Two dozen
theater workers recently sat around a sun-splashed
garden cafeteria in the Vedado neighborhood. They
had been summoned by bosses to discuss Cuba's economic
woes.
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel. |
Castro
'lucid and at full capacity'
Fidel Castro
is "lucid" and mentally is "at full capacity," Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya said on Thursday following
a two-day visit to Havana.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuban-Americans
help Ukrainian children
On Monday,
it was nine Ukrainian children playing with dolphins
at the Miami Seaquarium while waiting to be fitted
with free prosthetic limbs.
Yahoo! News. |
28
killed in bus, train crash in Cuba
A bus collided
with a train in eastern Cuba, killing at least 28
people and injuring another 73, including 15 reported
to be in critical condition, state television said
late Saturday.
Yahoo!
News. |
October
5
The
Miami Herald
•
CIA officer named to Cuba-Venezuela post
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Planning for land claims after Fidel is gone
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Judge: Cuban girl to spend more time with dad
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Cuban diplomat: Mexico immigration accord needed
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U.S.
faults Cuba for visa shortfall
The United
States issued only about 15,000 of the 20,000 emigrant
visas it had agreed to issue to Cubans during the
last fiscal year, American authorities said Monday,
and they blamed Cuban officials for the shortfall.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuban
dissidents denounce break-up of protest
Cuban dissident
leaders denounced Friday the police detention of
47 activists attempting to hold a street protest
in Havana on behalf of political prisoners.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuba
ends controversy over Che Guevara's body
Cuba has confirmed that the body found at a grave
in Bolivia's Vallegrande town was that of Ernesto
'Che' Guevara, thus ending a controversy over the
authenticity of the body of the socialist revolutionary
who was slain by Bolivian army in 1967.
Yahoo! News. |
US
readies for 'mass exodus' from Cuba after Castro
The US government
is prepared for a possible mass exodus of Cubans
after the death of elderly leader Fidel Castro,
US-Cuba transition coordinator Caleb McCarry said.
Yahoo! News. |
Castro
says ex-Spanish prime minister Aznar urged bombing
of Serbian media
Fidel Castro
on Sunday accused former Spanish prime minister
Jose Maria Aznar of urging Washington to bomb Serbian
radio and television stations during NATO's participation
in the war in Kosovo.
Yahoo! News. |
Few
Manitobans become 'medical tourists' in Cuba
A Manitoba
company offering "foreign surgery for the middle
classes" is finding most of its patients come from
the Maritimes and the United States, not its home
province.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuban
VP Calls for Greater Efficiency
Cuba needs
to produce higher-quality goods more efficiently,
cut graft and reduce reliance on gasoline, a major
economic leader said in remarks published Sunday.
Yahoo! News. |
Cuba
to open new stage in foreign investment
In what may
be seen as an attempt to open up its economy, Cuba
is preparing to invite more foreign investment in
a 'new climate' in the country and to prevent errors
committed in the past, Foreign Investment Minister
Marta Lomas said.
Yahoo! News. |
The
Cubanization of Venezuelan schools
There have
been plenty of signs that Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez is poised to take over as the anti-imperialist
leader of the Americas, a position until now held
unofficially by ailing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
It is now evident that Chavez is no longer trying
to take baby steps toward an authoritarian regime.
Maria Elena
Salinas. NorthJersey.com. |
Catholic
church losing strength in Cuba
On a January
morning nearly 10 years ago, Archbishop Pedro Meurice
introduced a papal mass here in the island's second-largest
city by boldly accusing the state of corrupting
the moral traditions of Cuba.
Ray Sanchez.
Sun-Sentinel. |
Cabinet
official assesses Cuban economy
Cuba needs
to produce higher-quality goods more efficiently,
cut graft and reduce reliance on gasoline, a major
economic leader said in remarks published Sunday.
Yahoo! News. |
September
28
FROM
CUBA
The
candy man
I woke
up early today and accompanied my neighbor Felipe
on his daily route around the city. He's a 68
year-old retiree who devotes himself to selling
candies made by his wife. Felipe is an electrician
by trade and he worked for thirty years.
PINAR DEL
RIO, Rafael Ferro Salas
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Cuba
releases 40 dissidents arrested Thursday: opposition
The Cuban government
has released around 40 people it had detained for
trying join a small but bold Havana street protest
headed by a leading dissident, an opposition human
rights group said Friday.
Yahoo! News. |
The
Miami Herald
• Cuban dissidents freed after brief detention
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18 Cuban migrants arrive at gas station
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Cuban dad wins ruling but not custody -- yet
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Two dozen dissidents rounded up in Havana
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Cuban archbishop: Religious freedom slowly spreading
on island
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Cuban girl's rights to be next decision
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Cuban official assails Bush
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Photo shows heavier-looking Fidel Castro standing,
meeting with Angolan president
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Castro's
daughter recalls homeland for Berks audience
She describes
her father as a tall, hairy man wreathed in cigar
smoke whose image replaced the cartoons she watched
on television as a child.
Félix Alfonso
Peña. Reading Eagle. |
Legacy
of Cuban Singer Honored
Salsa singer
Celia Cruz came from humble origins in Cuba to become
a larger than life persona known for her unforgettable
performances.
Ramiro Burr
-- San Antonio Express-News. |
Cuba
detains at least 21 dissidents: activist
Cuba has
cracked down on a bold demonstration organized by
the leading woman dissident in the Americas' only
communist-ruled country.
Yahoo! News. |
Music,
Not Politics, Moves Chucho Valdes
The comparsa
drums are thundering, but it's the piano driving
the beat with a furious array of improvisations
that blend raw Afro-Cuban rhythms with the toe-tapping,
head-bobbing beats of straight jazz.
Yahoo! News. |
Chinese
automaker Yutong exports more buses to Cuba
Chinese automaker
Yutong Group Co. Ltd. has delivered 200 mass transit
buses to Cuba, the first such China-made vehicles
ever exported, a company spokesman said.
Yahoo!
News. |
Bush
urges U.N. to spread freedom
President
Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the
military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of
imposing "a 19-year reign of fear" that denies basic
freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.
Yahoo! News. |
Bush
says Castro rule near end, urges 'free' polls in
Cuba
US President
George W. Bush, in a speech to the UN General Assembly
here Tuesday, called for "free and competitive elections"
in Cuba, saying the long rule of ailing President
Fidel Castro "is nearing its end."
Yahoo! News. |
Cubans
walk out during Bush UN speech
Cuba's foreign
minister walked out of the U.N. General Assembly
on Tuesday in protest of President Bush's speech
in which he said the "long rule of a cruel dictator
is nearing its end" on the communist island.
Yahoo! News. |
Castro
mocks rumors of his death in TV interview
Fidel Castro's
reappearance on state television has dispelled rumors
of his death, but left open the question whether
the ailing Cuban leader could emerge from his long
convalescence to take back the reins of power.
Yahoo! News. |
Miami
Cubans skeptical of Castro on TV
Cubans in
Miami's Little Havana neighborhood expressed a mixture
of skepticism and disappointment Friday at Fidel
Castro's first appearance on Cuban television in
three months.
Yahoo! News. |
September
20
FROM
CUBA
The
unfinished plaza
The majority
of people were excited when they heard the news.
After many years this city would have a civic
plaza. Every province in Cuba has one.
PINAR DEL
RIO, Rafael Ferro Salas
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The
Miami Herald
• 'Cuba's future must be democratic,' U.S. diplomat
says
•
5 Cubans spared death penalty in attempted hijacking
•
Cuba's trade prospects challenging
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Arturo Sandoval: On a mission to elevate jazz
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Normando
Hernandez, an extremely ill Cuban prisoner of conscience,
is moved to a Havana hospital
Officials
of State Security carried out the move in the early
morning hours on Friday, September 14th, and according
to what they told his wife, Yaraí Reyes Marín, the
prisoner will be given a general checkup.
Tania Maceda
Guerra. Payo Libre. |
Cuba
Has Better Health Care Than U.S.?
Communist
countries are famous for hiding the truth. Twenty
years ago, when I reported from the Soviet Union,
officials insisted there were no poor people in
Russia, but they refused to let me look for myself.
John Stossel.
Real Politics. |
Missionaries
pray for Castro's health
No one knows
how his death would affect restrictions on religion.
Sherri Day.
Tampa Bay. |
Cuba:
Government, UN Seek to Boost Impact of Aid
Cuba and
the United Nations have agreed to concentrate their
cooperation on five areas in the next few years,
in order to avoid spreading resources too thinly,
and to increase synergy between projects.
Patricia Grogg,
IPS. . |
Cubans
find fast, illegal path to U.S.
A multimillion-dollar
human-smuggling enterprise is bringing thousands
of Cubans to the United States on speedboats at
a price of up to $10,000 a head, and the flourishing
business has increased the number of Cubans illegally
entering the country by double-digit percentages
in each of the past three years.
Carol J. Williams,
The Seattle Times. |
Jailed
Cuban writer, extremely ill, hospitalized; may be
freed
Hernandez
Gonzalez is one of 59 writers still imprisoned following
a 2003 crackdown on dissidents. At the time, 75
writers were arrested, tried and convicted of "endangering
the state's independence or territorial integrity.''
Jeremy Gerard.
Bloomberg. |
Cubans
wonder where their Web access went
At a government-run
Internet cafe inside a Havana post office, the 1,942
Cubans signed up to use the computers were left
with a question this summer: Why had the government
abruptly cut their Internet access, leaving them
only with e-mail on a state account?
Michael Martinez,
Chicago Tribune. |
Closing
arguments in Cuban custody case
A Cuban farmer
fighting for custody of his 5-year-old daughter
made virtually no effort to be a parent when the
girl left the island nation with her mother, state
child welfare attorneys said in closing arguments
Wednesday.
Yahoo! News. |
Angolan
president to visit Cuba
Angola's
veteran President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is to
embark on a three-day official visit to long-time
ally Cuba on Wednesday, state media reported.
Yahoo!
News. |
Cuba:
US Embargo Has Cost Over $89B
Washington's
45-year-old embargo has cost Cuba more than $89
billion to date, wreaking havoc on everything from
primary education to pest control and nearly all
other facets of island life, the foreign minister
said
Yahoo!
News. |
Nebraska
Planning Cuba Trade Trip
A Nebraska
delegation this fall will be making another trade
trip to Cuba. Governor Dave Heineman said he's going
to lead the agriculture-based group to the island
nation in November.
Yahoo!
News. |
Thompson
Discusses Cuba During Visit To Miami
Republican
presidential candidate Fred Thompson blamed Democratic
rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday for the publicity
surrounding his remark suggesting Cuban immigrants
are bringing suitcase bombs to the United States.
NBC6. |
September
11
The
Miami Herald
• Cuban dad asked in court about sex life
•
Cuban dad breaks down in custody case
•
Cuban girl's mother is pressed: Why the lies?
•
For Dad's neighbors, dispute not complicated
•
Senate restores aid to Cuban opposition
•
Democrat Chris Dodd would end Cuba embargo if
elected president
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Americans
Break Law to Visit Cuba
Thousands
of U.S. tourists already travel to Cuba behind Washington's
back, and many say being sneaky is part of the fun.
Yahoo! News. |
Castro
accuses US of 9/11 conspiracy
An article
attributed to Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday
accused the US government of deceiving the world
about the September 11 terror attacks in the United
States.
Yahoo!
News. |
Castro:
Cuba provided info that saved Ronald Reagan from
assassination in 1984
Cuba once
saved the life of U.S. President Ronald Reagan by
giving American officials information about an assassination
plot, President Fidel Castro wrote in an essay published
Wednesday.
Yahoo! News. |
Defection
no guarantee of success for Cuban baseball players
in U.S.
Just about
every Cuban boy hopes to play baseball for the national
team in the Olympics. It is only when that wish
is taken away - as it was from Francisley Bueno
- that thoughts turn to America.
Yahoo!
News. |
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September
5
The
Miami Herald
• Cuban girl's mom: Dad knew she had problems
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Mom says she sent pictures to Cuba after all
•
Fidel warns of coming global recession
•
Ché Guevara's relics go up for auction
•
Rumors of Castro's death persist, except in Cuba
•
Doubts cast on report of Raul Castro Italy trip
•
Fidel not in danger as he convalesces: minister
•
Girl's custody battle continues in Miami
•
Lawyer who kissed Castro back in the spotlight
again
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South
Africa: SA, Cuba agree to train unemployed youth
South Africa
and Cuba have signed a co-operation agreement that
will benefit many unemployed young people, by training
them n the field of social development.
allafrica.com. |
Packing
up home 'easy' in needy Cuba
Packing up
after having his press accreditation withdrawn,
BBC correspondent Stephen Gibbs reflects on whether
the Cuban authorities really need to go to the lengths
they do to control information.
Stephen Gibbs,
BBC. |
Cuba
upgrading its weapons in case of U.S. invasion
Cuba has
been upgrading its military arsenal since President
Fidel Castro fell ill 13 months ago, to defend itself
against a possible U.S. invasion, senior officers
told Trabajadores weekly on August 27.
Defense News. |
Cuban
dancers crazy for democracy
Cuban dance
ranks alongside rum and cigars as one of the island's
most famous exports. It seems curious, then, that
a UK-inspired dance initiative is causing such a
stir in Havana.
Michael Voss.
BBC News. |
The
secret love of Cubans: the imperialist refrigerator
Before he
disappeared from public life, an ailing Fidel Castro
enlisted the prowess of Chinese industry last year
to get rid of some of the most resilient totems
of American imperialism: Frigidaire, Kelvinator
and Westinghouse refrigerators from the 1950s.
Simon Romero,
International Herald Tribune. |
August
31
The
Miami Herald
• Lawmakers push a united, hard-line front on
Cuba
•
Castro essay criticizes U.S. presidential hopefuls
•
Cuban dad's letters were fake, mom says
•
Cuban prison uprising case encourages death penalty
opponents
•
Mom in Cuban custody case testifies about her
rough life
•
Four in Cuba jail break sentenced
•
Misfit was born in Ohio, executed in Cuba
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Paya:
Change Cuban vote laws
The architect
of the Varela Project pro-democracy drive asked
Cuba's parliament on Thursday to abolish and replace
the country's electoral law and hold free, democratic
general elections as soon as possible.
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel. |
Heeding
Castro's defection fears, Cuba to skip boxing worlds
in Chicago
Cuba won't
send a boxing team to the world championships in
Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro's fears about future
defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates
during the Pan American Games.
Yahoo!
News. |
Little
Havana Looks to Life After Castro
Travel guides
list Little Havana as the heart of the Cuban exile
community, the symbolic hub of opposition to Fidel
Castro and a must-see neighborhood for its galleries,
cigar shops and espresso stands.
Yahoo! News. |
Racial
slurs are increasing
I would have
thought that The Washington Post, published in a
city that is predominantly African-American, would
be more sensitive against ethnic slurs. I was wrong.
Apparently they are only sensitive when the insults
are about blacks, not Hispanics.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel. |
Better
opportunities await Cuba
An era is
ending. With Fidel Castro's inevitable passing,
neither Latin America nor Cuba will ever be the
same. The Comandante has always valued ideas --
i.e., his own -- over the prosaic -- i.e., ordinary
people. Since Cuba alone never satisfied his supersized
ego, he looked elsewhere, Latin America in particular.
Marifeli Perez-Stable,
The Miami Herald. |
CANF
Letter to Editor of Washington Post regarding Pat
Oliphant Cartoon
Pat Oliphant's
cartoon published in the Washington Post on August
24th is so incredibly bigoted and exceedingly inaccurate
in its portrayal of Cuban-Americans, the fact that
you would allow such a cartoon to appear in the
pages of your paper is outrageous.
CANF. |
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