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Villa Clara Finishes Santiago de Cuba

Villa Clara blew a 6-2 lead against Santiago de Cuba on Saturday but then scored a run in the bottom of ninth to win 7-6 and move on to the Eastern Division final series showdown with Ciego de Avila.

Cuba Imposes Insurance for Visitors

Without saying what it costs nor what it covers, the Cuban government announced it would obligate tourists to buy health insurance in order to visit the island. The same measure applies for Cubans returning home for visits and for foreigners living in the country.

Cuba’s Quarterfinals Meet Expectations

During the final week of the regular season Sancti Spíritus rolled over Germán Mesa’s Lions in a three-game sweep at Latin American Stadium. Mesa was out-managed at every turn in those three games by his counterpart, Lourdes Gourriel, and the heavy-hitting Roosters seemed to have served clear notice that this was indeed “the year of the Gallos” in National Series play.

However, what a difference a week makes. Industriales somehow managed to catch lightning in a bottle for the rematch series, once the teams were truly playing “for all the marbles.”

32nd Havana Film Festival Inscriptions

The 32nd International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema will take place in Havana from December 2–12, 2010, and is summoning —as it does every year— works to be submitted in film competitions in the areas of fiction, documentary and animation, first works, unpublished scripts and film posters. The deadline is September 10.

Cuba-Trained MDs Posted All Over Haiti

The commitment to Haitian health care made by graduates of Havana’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) after the January 12th earthquake entered a second phase today as more than 250 doctors fanned out to take up their new posts at health centers and hospitals around the country.

Papa Humbertico & Cuba’s Underground Hip-Hop

What forces hip hop underground are not the issues dealt with in the songs or whether it fuses with other types of music, but the fact that it’s not marketed. Rappers can’t live off their art. All hip hop in Cuba is underground because no record company will record a hip hop CD.

Cuba Artists-Musicians in Haiti

Cuba sent to Haiti a brigade of 50 visual arts, theatre and music representatives with the aim of mitigating the suffering of the victims of the quake that devastated that Caribbean nation last Jan. 12.

Santiago KOs Villa Clara Stays Alive

The game was actually a close pitching duel with a 1-0 score until the bottom of the fifth when Santiago sent losing pitcher Freddy Asiel Alvarez to the showers after allowing five more runs including a grand slam by right-fielder Alexei Bell, his eighth of the season. Bell had six RBIs on the evening.

Remembering Cuba’s La Coubre Victims

The victims of the La Coubre steamship bombing 50 years ago were remembered Thursday in Havana. The tragedy occurred in the Port of Havana with almost a hundred killed and another two hundred injured.

Industriales Revs Cuba Capital Fans

Industriales came from behind to defeat Sancti Spiritus 8-3 on Friday to win their best-of-seven quarterfinal series four games to one. The victory by the favorite of the Cuban capital was played before a packed stadium of over 53,000 fans.