While many Havana sports fans will be watching game six of the Industriales-Pinar del Rio baseball game tonight, boxing lovers will also be out in force to see the first of a two-part quarterfinals match up of the World Series of Boxing (WSB).
Read MoreThe San Luis Stadium in Pinar del Rio will be small tonight, when starting at 7:15 pm the home team receives Industriales in the sixth game of the semifinal between the two rivals. For Pinar, down 2-3 in the best-of-seven series, the game is do-or-die and for Industriales a chance for the decisive victory.
Read MoreThe communications network was called “ZunZuneo” — slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet. It was reportedly built with secret shell companies financed through foreign banks. The US planned to use the platform to spread political content that might trigger a Cuban Spring.
Read MoreStarting Thursday through the weekend we will have good weather with sunny days, because we are under the influence of a continental migratory anticyclone.
Read MoreThe US government said today that its program to create a “Cuban twitter” was not a covert action or intelligence gathering, but a properly supervised project for “strengthening civil society” in Cuba. Another clandestine USAID effort involving telecommunications equipment landed agent Alan Gross in a Havana jail with a 15-year sentence.
Read MoreThis Wednesday, in a show of support for Cuban civil society, US Vice-President Joe Biden met in Washington with Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, They conversed about the challenges faced by defenders of freedom of expression on the island. Yoani is gearing up for the launching of an online newspaper she says will take place in the coming weeks.
Read MoreA year after establishing strict regulations applicable to Cubans wishing to travel to Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s government has decided to eliminate the letter of invitation hitherto required of visitors from the island. The move could drastically increase arrivals.
Read MoreThirty-two Cubans on Major League Baseball teams will earn a total of $92,180,000 during the 2014 season which began on Monday in the U.S., reported Café Fuerte.
Read MoreThere was no game-ending rifle-shot double-play throw from right field, and there was little over-the-top LA-style media hype to ramp up the headliner Opening Day Chicago scene. But in the end the long-awaited White Sox debut of José Dariel Abreu was every bit as eye-popping as last summer’s delayed first bow by flashy Yasiel Puig at Dodger Stadium.
Read MoreIn Cuban baseball playoff games on Monday, Industriales defeated Pinar del Rio by a score of 7-3 and moved ahead 2-1 in their series while Villa Clara saved face with a 4-2 win over Matanzas after losing the first three games of their best-of-seven series.
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