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Cuban weather forecasters issued a new advisory late Tuesday afternoon on Tropical Depression No. 16, which they say could become Tropical Storm “Nicole” later tonight before crossing the island.

Cuban Vice President and Minister of Economy and Planning Marino Murillo affirmed that the elimination of inflated payrolls in the state sector could finance wage increases in the immediate future.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro affirmed today that his denunciations 50 years ago about the aggressiveness of U.S. imperialism are still valid and reiterated his warnings about the danger of a nuclear war.

The move virtually assures the issue will not come up until after the November 2nd congressional elections when Republicans are expected to make gains.

Portions of western and central Cuba are under a tropical storm warming with the forming today of Tropical Depression 16 which is expected to turn into a tropical storm “Nicole” by later Tuesday, reports the National Hurricane Center. Also on alert are southern Florida and the Bahamas.

Cuba hopes to conclude this year the modernization of its seismological system with the installation of 18 high sensibility seismometers and the publication on the Internet of all the information on the occurrence of telluric movements on the island, Bladimir Moreno, director of the National Centre for Seismological Research, affirmed.

Cuba’s thrashing of visiting Nicaragua appears to indicate the island’s baseball team is ready for the upcoming Pan American Games and World Cup qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico on October 1-13.

The opening to the private sector in Cuba, with the authorization of greater possibilities for self-employment, is approaching the island to the socialist model Venezuela is building, Hugo Chávez, president of the South American country, affirmed. Chávez rejected that he was copying what the opposition calls “Cuban communism.”