The 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.
Read MoreThe political prisoners who began the strike with Coco have already changed their minds and have all begun eating again. He, however, is continuing. He has already gone into shock one time and it’s possible that by the time this posting is published he will be on the verge of suffering a second attack.
Read MoreThe National Assembly of People’s Power (unicameral parliament) rejected the “discriminatory and selective” condemnation of Cuba, approved by the European Parliament in response to the death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata, in a declaration released in Havana.
Read MoreThe Cuban government asked the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to reactivate the case of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, whose detention was questioned by the Working Group on Arbitrary Arrests in 2005. Known internationally as the Cuban Five, the men have been in US prisons since Sept. 1998, after a politically charged trial in Miami, Florida.
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