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Article: Cuba food expo nets $95m in contracts; U.S. firms say this is only the beginning.
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- CubaNews
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- October 1, 2002
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They were only five months old, but Louise and Clarke--two female buffaloes from southern Minnesota--quickly became star attractions at last month's U.S. Food & Agribusiness Exhibition in Havana.
Even so, the pair of baby bison--along with two beef cows, two milk cows, two sheep and two pigs--weren't enough to upstage Cuban President Fidel Castro, who attended nearly every day of the Sept. 26-30 event at Havana's sprawling Pabexpo convention center.
"You are making a very noble effort to overcome obstacles," Castro told 850 executives at a banquet for 288 U.S. companies participating in the historic trade show. "Fortunately, we are neighbors, so it's ...