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The Ministry of Finance and Prices approved a resolution that establishs one set of prices for staples sold in Cuban stores that charge in hard currency (CUCs).

Esteban Morales contends that while criticism is being promoted by the government “at the same time it’s being impeded; it’s like there are two policies: one being promoted by our president, and another one that the established bureaucracy in power is applying.”

Cuban athletes Jose Carlos Bulnes and Serguei Torres today qualified to compete in the final race for the gold in the 1,000 meter men’s double canoe (C-2) at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Cuban boxer Toledo Yasnier secured at least a second Olympic bronze medal for the island when he defeated the Kazakhstani slugger Gani Zhailauov in the 60 kilogram category on Monday.

Cuba’s Mijain Lopez has repeated as the Greco-Roman wrestling champ in the 120 kilo division of the London Olympics. Lopez medal gives Cuba a total of three in the current Olympiad. The island now ranks 14th on the overall medals standings

Cuban athlete Lisandra Guerra succeeded in making it into the quarterfinals of the cycling-sprint in the London Olympics on Sunday. For the quarterfinals, Guerra will face China’s Shuang Guo, the bronze medal winner four years ago in this same event and the current leader in the world ranking.

Calling it “unfair,” the Cuban Boxing Federation on Sunday protested the decision not to overturn the ruling that ordered the elimination of boxer Jose Angel Larduet from the Olympic boxing competitions.

The last Congress was held in July 2008 and many of the same issues were discussed but little concrete changes took place in the coming period. Censorship and self-censorship remain trademarks of the Cuban media.

Young Cuban archaeologist Daniel Torres, along with several other researchers in the world, received the 2012 Emerging Explorer Award from the National Geographic Society.