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Mexico’s Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa will travel to Cuba in December, announced a top government official. Espinosa is expected to discuss with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez plans for a possible visit by President Felipe Calderon to the island.

The funeral for Carmen Nordelo, the mother of Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo (Cuban Five), was held on Tuesday at Colon Cemetery in Havana with President Raul Castro in attendance.

Cuba’s health authorities will try to reduce the number of abortions, estimated at 85,000 a year, through the use of Levonorgestrel or “morning-after-pills”. Cuba is the only country in Latin America where women have freedom of choice and abortions are carried out with no restrictions.

Cuba’s health authorities will administer 900,000 doses of the vaccine against the winter flu virus starting next November 9. The medicine, which does not protect against the A H1N1 influenza, will be administered to persons over 75 and others suffering from diabetes, kidney failure and asthma.

The Cuban League Baseball Season got underway on Sunday with the inaugural game between last season’s champs, Havana Province and runner-up Villa Clara. Miguel Alfredo Gonzales pitched seven innings of four-hit shutout ball to get the win 1-0 with relief help from closers Jose Angel Garcia and Miguel Lahera.

Here is the schedule for the 2009-2010 Cuban Baseball League Season courtesy of Peter C. Bjarkman and his site baseballdecuba.com. The first full week of play begins on Tuesday, Nov. 3 after Sunday’s innaguration where defending champion Havana Province defeated runner-up Villa Clara 1-0.

The tiny Pacific Island nation of Palau, population 20,000, has been in the news twice in the last week both times involving Cuba, another much larger island in the Caribbean, 90 miles from Florida.