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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Miami, Florida 
December 5, 2001

NASDAQ SmallCap: CUBA
Cusip: 42804T106

For further information contact:
Cecilia Gondor-Morales
(305) 271-1900

The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. Declares
Year-End Distribution

Miami, FL -- The Board of Directors of The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. (CUBA) declared a year-end distribution of $0.1551 per share payable on January 21, 2002 to shareholders of record December 31, 2001. The distribution consists of $0.1016 per share from investment company taxable income and $0.0535 per share from net long-term capital gains. The distribution is taxable for the calendar year 2001.

The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. is a closed-end fund managed by HERZFELD/CUBA a division of Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc. (based in Miami). The fund seeks long-term captial appreciation. To achieve its objective, the Fund invests in issuers that are likely, in the Advisor's view, to benefit from economic, political, structural and technological developments in the countries in the Caribbean Basin, which consist of Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Babados, Aruba, Haiti, the Netherlands Antilles, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States.
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