Veteran pitchers, starter Norge Luis Vera and reliever Pedro Luis Lazo, were victims of costly errors on Sunday and the USA defeated Cuba 10-5 to repeat as the champs at the World Cup Baseball tournament. With the score tied 4-4 the US pulled off a six run rally in the top of the seventh that blew the game open.
Read MoreCubans are used to getting a cheap hot lunch at work which, while nothing fancy, is considered a benefit to their across-the-board low salaries in most offices and businesses. In a cost-cutting effort and a move a way from subsidies, the government of Raul Castro is hoping to eliminate the low-priced lunch, substituting it with a monetary supplement.
Read MorePitcher Aroldis Chapman, 21, is slated to be the next Cuban multi-millionaire after he abandoned his national team to make a go in the US Major Leagues. The lefty with a 100 mph fastball played on the eastern Holguin team in the Cuban league. He could easily receive an eight digit figure for signing.
Read MoreThe president of the Palestine National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, will arrive tonight in the Cuban capital, where he will attend a solidarity ceremony with his country at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and will sign agreements in the areas of culture, sports and higher education.
Read MoreYulieski Gonzalez pitched brilliantly for eight innings and Hector Olivera batted in three runs Friday to give Cuba a 5-1 win over Canada and a ticket to the finals in the 2009 World Cup Baseball Tournament being played in Italy. The islanders’ rivals on Sunday are none other than the defending champion Team USA.
Read MoreU.S. citizens of Cuban descent are once again free to travel to Cuba and send an unlimited amount of money to their relatives on the island, but for the most part U.S. policy toward the communist nation hasn’t changed under President Barack Obama. The U.S. State Department continues to list Cuba as one of its four officially designated state sponsors of terrorism.
Read MoreThe government of Venezuela will open tomorrow its first “Peace Base” in Cuba, a center “for debating ideas on the situation in Latin America, to reject violence and the installation of U.S. military bases in South America.”
Read MoreCuba confirmed today its participation in the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, in which it will have a 500-square-meter stand with a display of its principal products and its culture, reported IPS. An architect and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce will arrive in October to that Chinese city to start the assembly of the Cuban pavilion.
Read MoreThe governments of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) expressed their support for the return to Honduras of President Manuel Zelaya. “It follows the decisions approved by the ALBA, the United Nations General Assembly, the Organization of American States… and smoothes the path for the restoration of Honduran democracy,” states a communiqué released by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.
Read MoreThe final game of the 2009 World Cup that most Cubans want to see would be a rematch between their squad and the 2007 champion team USA that defeated them. On Thursday the two group leaders meet in a third round game that will possibly get repeated on Sunday for the title.
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