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A museum that will have on display part of Cuba’s railroad heritage will be inaugurated next November 17 in Old Havana. The project, carried out by the Office of the City of Havana Historian, will exhibit six steam locomotives, one of them built in 1878.

Two rural communities in the western province of Pinar del Río remain isolated due to the flooding of the Cuyaguateje River, whose waters rose due to the rain left by Hurricane Ida, reported IPS on Wednesday. In certain places in this region more than 16 inches of rainfall were registered in 48 hours.

Cuban musician Raul Paz, accompanied by artists from Spain, France and the Caribbean country, will carry out a concert next November 20 at the Cuban capital’s Karl Marx Theatre as part of the activities for the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The authorities in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara have mobilized more than 4,000 persons to collect rubble and garbage on the banks of the Bélico and Cubanicay rivers, to combat the spread in the city of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits diseases such as dengue.

Today’s report indicates that Santiago de Cuba veteran pitcher Norge Vera has been moved to the Hermanos Amejeiras Hospital in Havana and is resting comfortably while awaiting reconstructive nose surgery to repair damage suffered in a street brawl last Sunday.
The blow caused multiple fractures to the nose area (three fractures of the cheekbone) but fortunately the star pitcher received no lesions or lacerations to the adjoining eye area.

Industriales, pride and joy of the Cuban capital, finished the first week of the 2009-2010 Cuban Baseball League season undefeated after sweeping both Isla de la Juventud and Metropolitanos .

Twenty-six per cent of Cuban agriculture’s labor force is unproductive, a problem “that creates bureaucracy, increases costs, slows down productivity, creates disorder and prevents workers from improving their income,” reported IPS.

Sanchez, who publishes the blog Generation Y, is frequently cited by the US press as a leading dissident of the Cuban government and an expert on the difficulties of life on the island. She wrote on her blog that last Friday her, Pardo and Cadelo were briefly detained and warned against continuing their “counterrevolutionary” writing.

The Holy See did not receive an official reply to its request that the Catholic Church be given normal access to the media, made by the president of Vatican Council for Social Communications, Claudio Celli, during a working visit to Cuba.