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Brazil’s President to Visit Cuba

Rousseff’s trip to Havana is designed to seek an increase in bilateral exchange at a time when Cuba implements reforms that signify an opening in its economy for investment.

Cuba Baseball Review (Jan. 3-6)

As the current Cuban Baseball League season got back underway this week, the teams that were heading their respective divisions as 2011 came to a close continued their course despite the changeover from the Mizuno 150 to the Mizuno 200 baseball.

Most Land Grants Now Producing

About 80 percent of the land recently leased to individual farmers in Cuba is now in use for food production, said a senior official of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Private Sector Cuban Workers to Join Unions

About 80 percent of all private sector workers on the island have joined the trade union movement, said Salvador Valdes Mesa, the general secretary of the Confederation of Cuban Workers.

Biennial Murals in Santiago de Cuba

The Tenth International Biennial of Mural Painting (“InterNos”) began yesterday as seven new murals added to the visual quality of the city of Santiago de Cuba.

Cuba Wins Game 1 vs. the Michigan Lakers

Cuba’s university baseball team defeated the Michigan Lakers 4-3 yesterday in the first of a series of three friendship games in Havana. Today the Cuban team and the US squad from Grand Valley University will play game two of the series, but this time in the Latin American Stadium, also in the capital.

Yoani Sanchez Makes New Plea to Exit Cuba

In a new tactic to try and get the Cuban authorities to budge on her exit permit, famous blogger Yoani Sanchez made a You Tube video plea to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, trying to get that country’s leader to intercede on her behalf with the Raul Castro administration in Havana.