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Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, the eldest son of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, said on Tuesday during a scientific seminar in Havana that his father is “lucid and working hard,” even though he’s staying away from the island’s public life.

The director of Havana’s Transportation Department, Joel Beltran Archer, was “relieved of his duties” this past Saturday during a meeting with top government officials in Havana, reports the Café Fuerte website.

The insecticide used for fumigating Cuban homes against the dengue-causing Aedes aegypti mosquito is being systematically stolen by those working in that national health campaign, reported the Café Fuerte website today.

Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque and 29 other Cubans terminated their hunger strike of more than a week after authorities communicated the pending release of the imprisoned activist they had championed.

Washington still has not responded to a Cuban proposal seeking a solution to the case of US citizen Alan Gross, who is being held in Havana, said Josefina Vidal, the director of the North America desk of Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Renowned US lawyers on Monday demanded the dismissal of the convictions against the five Cuban intelligence officers (known as the Cuban Five) convicted in that country.

The Cuban political opposition group “Ladies in White” asked dissident leader Martha Beatriz Roque to end the hunger strike that she began eight days ago along with 26 other activists on the island.

Donors and political action committees (PACs) associated with Cuban issues have reduced their presence in the current US election campaign, as the November 7 elections approach, reports the El Nuevo Herald.

Spanish politician Angel Carromero is to go on trial October 5 in Cuba in connection with the traffic accident that took the lives of dissident leader Oswaldo Paya and a second Cuban dissident.

Veteran boxing coach Pedro Roque Otaño has been appointed to coach the US amateur team. The coach, 62 years old and with over 40 years of experience as the coach of numerous Olympic and world champions.