Havana Province came to life on Saturday on the road defeating Industriales 4-0 in the Latinoamericano Stadium packed with 54,746 fans. Yadier Pedroso pitched eight innings of seven-hit baseball and Yonder Martinez finished off the job with a perfect ninth.
Read MoreLeonys Martin broke open a 1-1 pitching duel with a two-run homer to start off a five-run seventh inning rally to lead Villa Clara to a 6-1 win Friday night over Ciego de Avila and a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Division Cuban baseball playoffs.
Read MoreWith people pushing me from behind, suddenly I was on the bus and pressed against a sweaty man, in fact my entire body was against his. There was no space to move and my hands were full, plus I couldn’t ask the man to move aside because he didn’t have any room either, and it was I who was standing pressed against him.
Read MoreThe Cuban Sports Institute and Olympic Committee announced yesterday that the Fifth National Sports Olympiad will take place from May 15-29 in nine Cuban provinces. The event takes on greater importance for testing the island’s athletes since Cuba decided not to participate in the Central American and Caribbean Games to take place this July in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
Read MoreWomen should have greater participation in leadership posts in Cuba, but for this to happen it is necessary to “re-conceptualize the masculine and the feminine, and redistribute domestic chores,” said Isabel Moya, director of the Editorial de la Mujer publishers in statements during the first Women’s Workshop, organized in the island’s capital by the Comptroller.
Read MoreCuban opposition member Guillermo Fariñas was hospitalized in the central city of Santa Clara after having suffered his second collapse after the start of a hunger strike to demand the release of political prisoners in the island, reported sources close to the dissident, who has expressed his decision to die if the government does not meet his demands.
Read MoreEl Salvador will officially open its embassy in Cuba on Saturday March 13, after that Central American country’s president, Mauricio Funes, re-established diplomatic relations with the island on June 1, 2009, reported the local press. The inauguration ceremony will be attended by Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez, who is in the Caribbean nation since yesterday.
Read MoreIndustriales won their sixth straight playoff game on Thursday to take a 2-0 lead over Havana Province in the Western Division finals. A grand slam by Alexander Mayeta in the fifth off reliever Jonder Martinez stunned fans at San Jose de las Lajas accustomed winning games on pure pitching.
Read MoreLeslie Anderson, one of several top Cuban baseball players who left the island looking for greener pastures in 2009, has signed a 3.75 million dollar contract with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Read MoreThe 19th International Cuba Fair Book concluded on the seventh of this month with little recognition of the event’s contribution to debate in current Cuban society, as attention was centered on honored individuals and Russia, the guest country.
Appearing on the broad program, which began on February 11, were issues such as the decades-long silencing of the nation’s reality, book anthologies that were once accessible only to a minority of intellectuals, and social movements and authors who have emerged and “grown up” in the margin of officialdom.
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