Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Cuba’s Leslie Anderson Signs with T.B.

Leslie Anderson, one of several top Cuban baseball players who left the island looking for greener pastures in 2009, has signed a 3.75 million dollar contract with the Tampa Bay Rays.

Contributing to Social Debate in Cuba

The 19th International Cuba Fair Book concluded on the seventh of this month with little recognition of the event’s contribution to debate in current Cuban society, as attention was centered on honored individuals and Russia, the guest country.

Appearing on the broad program, which began on February 11, were issues such as the decades-long silencing of the nation’s reality, book anthologies that were once accessible only to a minority of intellectuals, and social movements and authors who have emerged and “grown up” in the margin of officialdom.

Suicide as a Political Weapon in Cuba

The political prisoners who began the strike with Coco have already changed their minds and have all begun eating again. He, however, is continuing. He has already gone into shock one time and it’s possible that by the time this posting is published he will be on the verge of suffering a second attack.

Cuba Parliament Rejects European Condemnation

The National Assembly of People’s Power (unicameral parliament) rejected the “discriminatory and selective” condemnation of Cuba, approved by the European Parliament in response to the death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata, in a declaration released in Havana.

Cuba Asks to Reactivate Case of Cuban 5

The Cuban government asked the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to reactivate the case of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, whose detention was questioned by the Working Group on Arbitrary Arrests in 2005. Known internationally as the Cuban Five, the men have been in US prisons since Sept. 1998, after a politically charged trial in Miami, Florida.

Industriales Strikes First vs. Havana

Industriales continued its playoff run by defeating Havana Province 5-3 Thursday in the opener of the Western Division finals best-of-seven series. Behind the pitching of Odrisamer Despaigne, the Lions built a 5-1 lead in the seventh and hung tight to stop the Cowboys short on two scoreless innings by reliever Armando Rivero.