Florida State University changed its mind on facilitating its ballpark, contracted for two Industriales veterans games, involving players from the island and those residing in the USA, scheduled for August 10 and 11.
Read MoreThe Cuban government created the new Foreign Trade Enterprise Group (GECOMEX), integrated by twelve export and import companies. It will be subordinate to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.
Read MoreAmerican Express was fined US $5.2 million dollars for violating the US travel ban on Cuba for ordinary citizens, dpa reported on Monday. The settlement reached involved the sales of 14,000 plane tickets that would be business as usual with any other country.
Read MoreCuba is preparing to celebrate this Friday the 60th anniversary of the July 26, 1953 assault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The action failed militarily but would go on to spark the Cuban revolution.
Read MoreCuba’s hopes to advance to the semifinals of the 2013 Gold Cup soccer tournament came to an end on Saturday when they fell by a lopsided score of 6-1 to favored Panama, which has not lost a match in the Cup.
Read MoreThe exhibition series between the Collegiate National Team of the USA and the Cuban national team has turned into a showcase of pitching. On Saturday night the host Americans took their third straight one-run victory 1-0 on a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning from Michael Conforto scoring Trea Turner.
Read MoreThe government of Venezuela presented a protest note to the US Embassy in Caracas on Friday over diplomat Samantha Power’s statements regarding her will to fight against repression in Venezuela and Cuba. Power is the Obama administration’s candidate to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations.
Read MoreA combined arsenal of five top Cuban aces and six “showcase’ Team USA hurlers shut down the opposing offenses in a classic thriller that stretched into extra frames and eventually found the Americans coming out on top by a slim 2-1 count in a contest ultimately decided via the once-lambasted but now increasingly celebrated extra-inning tiebreaker format.
Read MoreIn general, there will be good weather, but rain in the afternoon after a day of warming. Temperatures will be relatively high. Maximum temperatures will fluctuate around 32° C (88 F) and the minimum will remain stable at about 24° C (75 F).
Read MoreA group of Cuban Americans supporting engagement between the US and Cuba to improve relations and settle differences is alarmed by a bill attached to a House appropriations bill for the fiscal year 2014 that would turn the clock back to the George W. Bush years.
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