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It wasn’t easy but the Morenas del Caribe, Cuba’s popular women’s volleyball team, defeated the Czech Republic three sets to one Tuesday in the World Championships taking place in Japan.

A long awaited congress of the Communist Party of Cuba was announced Monday by President Raul Castro for April, 2011. Cuba’s only allowed political party “will center it’s analysis on the economic and social model of the country,” said Raul who is the second secretary of the organization still led by Fidel Castro.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez acknowledged Cuba’s support in the fields of health, education and other sectors for the last 10 years during an appearance on the island’s state-run television. Chávez traveled to the Caribbean country to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the signing of the first cooperation agreement between both nations under his government.

Representatives of the Cuban dissidence demanded that the government release the 13 political prisoners who remain imprisoned, after the four-month deadline given by the government for the release of all those arrested in 2003 is up. That group of opposition members refuses to leave the country and travel to Spain, according to the agreement reached by the authorities with Madrid and the Catholic Church.

Cuba’s Women’s volleyball team got off to a good start on Sunday against powerhouse Brazil, winning the first set in their World Volleyball Championship second round match. However, the Brazilian superiority took charge to win the next three

The Netherlands women’s volleyball team had a surprisingly easy time in defeating Cuba three sets to one in their first match of the second round of the World Championships being played in Japan.

The passing of Hurricane Tomas through the Winward Strait close to far eastern Guantanamo, Cuba left no fatal victims nor considerable material damage reported thus far, said Civil Defense authorities.

The U.S. government ruled out a possible exchange of contractor Alan Gross, detained in Cuba since December 2009, for Cuban Gerardo Hernández, who is serving a double life sentence in the U.S., or another of the five members of a Cuban intelligence network dismantled in 1998, according to a letter of the Departments of State and of Justice to Republican Representative Lincoln Díaz-Balart.