Author: Circles Robinson

Taiwan Upends Cuba 3-1 in Holland

Taiwan’s Kuan Ju Chen pitched a complete game limiting Cuba’s powerful lineup to two hits and one lone first inning run to lead his undefeated team to a big 3-1 win at the World Port Tournament in Rotterdam, Holland.

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Japan Workers Bear Brunt of Nuke Clean-up

Twenty-eight-year-old Yushi Sato washes cars for a living, but they are no ordinary cars. Every day, Sato hoses down vehicles contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant that was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit north-east Japan Mar 11.

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Cuba-Taipei Postponed in Rotterdam

Cuba’s second game in the World Port Baseball Tournament in Rotterdam, Holland was rained out on Saturday and rescheduled for Monday. On Sunday the islanders play the tournament host Holland at 8 a.m. Cuban time.

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Women-Only Buses Against Sexual Harassment

“We are all safer here; it’s great because this way there are no men groping you,” Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for women, a service against sexual harassment that is being tried out in the Guatemalan capital.

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Making Revolution in Cuba Today (Part 1)

“I’ve never criticized people; I criticize the methods, enthroned sectarianism; the democratic, socializing and libertarian deficits of the statist system that are presented as socialist. I involve myself in the world of ideas,” said Pedro Campos in an extensive interview with Havana Times.

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