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4 posted on 04/17/2002 12:11:37 PM PDT by Free the USA
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Cuba, Venezuela Increasing Ties*** In June, Chavez decided to create citizens' groups charged with taking care of their neighborhoods. To some, the move evoked images of Cuba's infamous revolutionary block committees. Most criticism has been leveled by Venezuela's teachers, who oppose Cuban funding and Cuban-inspired curricula in public schools. A key Chavez program affords millions of poor children a chance to go to school. But many teachers condemned a course on the late Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara, and a May protest ended in clashes with pro-Chavez activists in front of the Cuban Embassy.

Cuban celebrate Venezuelan president's return to power, term his victory his nation's 'Bay of Pigs' *** A delegation of Cuban sports officials also traveled to Venezuela on Tuesday to visit with some of the more 600 Cuban sports technicians, physicians, physical therapists and other specialists working there.***

8 posted on 04/17/2002 1:16:01 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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