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Over a 110 million US dollars has been dished out by MLB teams in recent times to land four Cuban players. The latest in the money fest is Jose Soler, 20, who was signed last week to play nine years for the Chicago Cubs for $30 million.

The Cuban national baseball team, playing a 5-game exhibition series in Nicaragua, took the opener on Saturday in a hard fought 2-1 win characterized by good pitching from both sides.

The Cuban government assured on Friday that the health of US agent Alan Gross, 63, is “normal”, rejecting declarations that his health had deteriorated while imprisoned on the Island.

Two years after being sent to Spain thanks to the mediation of the Catholic Church, 45 former Cuban political prisoners have already traveled to the US in search of means to support their families.

The president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, today begins an official visit to Cuba in response to an invitation from Cuban President Raul Castro.

Cuba reiterated on Thursday at the United Nations its support for Argentina in the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas (“Falkland”) Islands as part of the national territory of that South American country.

The health of US agent Alan Gross is deteriorating in his Cuban prison, asserted his lawyer, Peter Kahn, on Wednesday. Gross has spent more than two years in prison in Cuba, where he is serving a sentence of 15 years in prison for setting up Cuban dissidents with sophisticated illegal satellite communication systems.

Isolated showers and thunderstorms expected to occur in the afternoons due mainly to daytime heating. High temperatures will fluctuate around 32°C (90°F), while minimum temperatures will drop to around 25°C (77°F).

Cuban professor Felix Ernesto Chavez Lopez died on Monday in Mexico City after being attacked by assailants in the apartment where he was staying, reported the Mexican newspaper El Universal.

The World Boxing Council on Wednesday called for three days of mourning following the death of former Olympic champion Teofilo Stevenson on Monday.