The team closed the tournament on the island with six gold medals and an equal number of silver and bronze medals. Cuba was followed by the US (1-1-4), and four other countries that picked up bronze medals. Cuba lost only in the 66 kilo match, where American athlete Kevin Levalley beat Ernesto Sanchez.
Read MoreA team made up of seven Cuban boxers arrived in the Dominican Republic on Sunday to participate today through February 22 in the 30th International Cup.
Read MoreParishioners at the National Shrine of St. Lazarus, in Havana, prayed for the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during Lent Mass, which takes place every February 17th on behalf of the sick, reported Prensa Latina. Chávez made a surprise return to Venezuela early on Monday.
Read MoreThe Cuban film Juan de los muertos, by Alexander Brugues, won the Goya award on Sunday for the Best Latin American Film, the highest honor granted by the Spanish Film Academy.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez, announced today via his Twitter page that he has returned to Caracas after receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba, reported DPA news. “I have returned to the Venezuelan homeland. Thank God!! Thank you beloved people! I will continue the treatment here.”.
Read MoreCuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez traveled to Brazil Sunday, at the start of a long tour that is to take her to over a dozen countries in the coming weeks. The outspoken 37-year-old woman had been denied permission to the leave the country on 20 previous occasions. She says she will return in around three months.
Read MoreFifteen members of Cuba’s “Guaracheros de Regla” troupe who participated in carnival festivities in the Mexican city of Veracruz, left their hotel and didn’t catch their return flight to Cuba with the rest of the cultural delegation, reported DPA news.
Read MoreCanadian Foreign Minister John Baird will visit several Latin American countries next week including Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Panama and also Cuba, where he is expected to arrive on Friday, Feb. 22. The timing of the first visit by a top Canadian diplomat since Joe Clark’s trip in 1986, coincides with economic reforms in Cuba.
Read MoreHomes in the central Cuban town of Rodas, Cienfuegos shook on Wednesday evening after an explosion overhead, reported ANSA news service. Experts are scouring the area in search of any remains that fell to Earth. No reports of injuries or damage to property has come in.
Read MoreChavarria argued that governmental homophobia was a political necessity: “At the beginning of the revolution they had to consider the enormous political cost of conceding a role for homosexuals.” He explained that the massive participation of Cuban campesinos and their strong homophobic traditions prevented the recognition of homosexuals; therefore, that part of society was “set apart” – but “never prosecuted.”
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