Aroldis Chapman, the 22-year-old Cuban lefty who signed a US $30 million contract with the Cincinnati Reds will debut with the US Major League Team on Monday. Meanwhile in Cuba, Chapman’s old team Holguin made a late season run but fell short and didn’t make it into the playoffs that have the island’s fans on edge.
Read MoreCuba’s Cubalum Company and the Dominican Republic’s Sigmaplast signed a letter of intention to create a joint venture for the production of flexible printed material and the extraction of polyethylene, reported the local press. The joint venture will give the island access to cutting-edge technology and will expand the market for its Dominican counterparts.
Read MorePlaying before an ecstatic crowd of nearly 38,000 at Havana’s Latinoamericano Stadium on Thursday, Industriales broke open a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the fourth and went on to 9-4 win over Sancti Spiritus to take a 3-1 lead in the best of 7 series.
Read More“What does Van Van have that keeps it going after forty years?” This is a question that has been posed by thousands of people who have followed the group’s music for decades. Dancing, sweating, applauding to the sound of “Marilu”, “Sandunguera” or “El baile del buey cansao”, the public is thankful for every performance and each new song.
Read MoreSantiago de Cuba, Guantanamo and Cienfuegos are all on the brink of elimination in the first round of the Cuban League Baseball Playoffs taking place since last week.
Read MoreCuba’s Comptroller Gladys Bejerano Portela told the press on Wednesday that 40 percent of the State businesses her office inspected in 2009 were either deficient or highly deficient in their controls. The official said tighter internal controls are needed.
Read MoreCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez held the United States responsible for the death of opposition member Orlando Zapata, who had been a “victim of the subversive policy against Cuba,” when speaking Wednesday in Geneva before the UN Council of Human Rights.
Read MoreFamous Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was once again denied permission to leave Cuba to attend an international event, claims her husband, Reinaldo Escobar, also a blogger. IPS reported that Sanchez was to attend the Fifth International Congress of the Spanish Language in Chile scheduled to take place in Valparaiso from March 2-5, but cancelled due to the powerful earthquake that hit Chile on February 27.
Read MoreA cold front that moved into Cuba on Wednesday brought three meter waves in parts of Havana flooding the Malecon seawall drive and low lying parts of the city including a section of the Vedado district. By sunset the sea incursion was considerably less. Caridad captured some of the dramatic scenes.
Read MoreIndustriales scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh on route to a 6-4 win over Sancti Spiritus on Wednesday and took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven quarterfinal playoff. Twenty year old reliever Armando Martinez allowed the feared Sancti Spiritus lineup only one hit in the final 2.1 innings to pick up the win.
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