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Smack in the midst of the Rotterdam World Port Tournament, a major story has broken in Cuba this weekend with the announcement that Lourdes Gourriel will return to his old post as manager of the Sancti Spíritus Gallos for the coming National Series season.

The mainstream North American baseball press has paid only fleeting attention to this week’s Rotterdam-based World Port Tournament. The one seemingly all-encompassing headline story for media outlets was the departure from the Cuban squad of coveted big league prospect Aroldis Chapman.

A delegation of 30 teachers from the United States will travel to Cuba on July 19, reported the California-based Ventura County Star on Monday. Cuba is off-bounds for most US citizens due to a decades old travel ban.

Specialists from Cuba and some 25 nations will discuss the planet’s most urgent environmental problems during the 7th International Convention on the Environment and Development that begins today in the island’s capital. The forum continues through Friday July 10, reported IPS.

With the Honduran army opening fire on demonstrators with tear gas and live bullets, and placing obstacles on the runway, deposed President Manuel Zelaya was unable to land in Tegucigalpa on Sunday afternoon and attempt a return to his post as the country’s constitutional leader.

Cuba surprised Russia with a 3-0 sweep in only one hour and nineteen minutes on Sunday to emerge alone in first place in Group C of the World Volleyball League.

Cuba won its fourth straight Port Cities Baseball Tournament game on Sunday defeating the host Holland 10-6. Yaumier Sanchez went five innings allowing two runs to get the win.

Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is in the air flying towards Honduras, just hours after the Organization of American States (OAS) suspended the Central American country on a unanimous 33-0 vote early Sunday in Washington.