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The new Ambassador of Spain in Cuba, Juan Francisco Montalban Carrasco, on Tuesday presented his credentials to the vice president of the Council of State, Gladys Bejerano.

Aroldis Chapman, the towering left-handed pitcher from Holguin, was the only Cuban in yesterday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game. He got a chance to realize any player’s dream when he entered the game in the eighth inning.

The Cuban Baseball Federation announced on Tuesday the 24-player team that will leave for Holland on Wednesday to play at the Haarlem Baseball Week tournament vs. Puerto Rico, USA, Japan, Chinese Taipei and the host Netherlands.

Sources on the island surveyed over the weekend reported at least five deaths from dengue and six cases of cholera in the Cuban capital.

Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon said on Monday in Madrid that there is still “no date” set for the passage of immigration reform announced by Raul Castro. The National Assembly meets on July 23rd in one of its twice annual regular sessions.

Cuba’s Supreme Court reinstated engineer Luis Orlando Abascal to the job from which he was fired in February 2011 for possessing a documentary about sexuality on a company-owned computer, reported the Trabajadores newspaper.

The US national collegiate baseball team defeated Cuba on Monday night by a score of 5-4 in the fifth and final match of an exhibition series held at Havana’s Latin American Stadium. Cuba won the series three games to two. Now the teams move on to Haarlem, Holland.