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Superb pitching from right-handers Yaisel Sierra and Vladimir Gutierrez allowed Cuba to win a 1-0 pitching duel on Sunday and complete a five game sweep of an error-plagued USA university selection.

Cuba’s top leadership at the annual commemoration of the July 26, 1953 attacks on two eastern Cuban garrisons, considered the spark of the 1959 revolution. Several of the surviving participants were present today including President Raul Castro.

The 25th Pastors for Peace US-Cuba Friendship Caravan arrived in Havana on Thursday. Before arriving to Cuba, the group travelled to 65 cities in Canada, the United States and Mexico collecting humanitarian aid for the island.

A total of six losses in a row in games against the USA university selection came to an end Wednesday night in Matanzas before 10,500 spectators, as the young Cuban baseball team took the opener of a five-game series.

Chinese president Xi Jinping traveled on Wednesday with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro to the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, on the last day of his visit to the Caribbean nation.

There was a time when exhibiting buying power far greater than any salary in socialist Cuba was taboo and downright dangerous. People with illicit income or from undeclared family gifts had to conceal their wealth the best they could or risk the consequences. Today that is no longer the case.