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  • Cuba's President Raul Castro waves to the crowd during the May Day parade at Havana's Revolution Square May 1, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through the square on Thursday for a red-splashed May Day celebration that urged economic gains and increased productivity from workers.
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