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Diana Nyad was out of the water as of 7:42 a.m. on Tuesday having given up on her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. The 62-year-old grandmother had made it over 60 miles of the 103-mile journey she began at the Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday.

The Cuban reservoirs revealed themselves to be in a “favorable situation” at the end of July, said the vice president of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH), Aymee Aguirre, in comments to the weekly Cuban magazine Trabajadores.

The Edmonton Journal reported on Sunday that the player from the Cuban female baseball team who had “disappeared” last Monday in Edmonton, Canada, has been identified as Odrisleisis Pequero del Sol.

Cuban boxer Giorbis Barthelemy, a US resident, was suspended for 10 years and fined up to $10,000 for biting the neck of his opponent during a fight on August 4 in Atlanta.

An American athlete was swimming for a second day on her way from Cuba to the United States in her bid to become the first woman to cross the stretch without a shark cage, the swimmer’s personal website reported Sunday.

Cuban academic Camila Piñeira, daughter of the late guerilla commander Manuel “Red Beard” Pineiro, on Wednesday called for “participatory democracy” on the island, while basing this on the economic reforms of President Raul Castro.

Slugger Joan Carlos Pedroso, in statements on the radio on Thursday, ruled out his retirement from Cuban baseball, saying that he’s even hoping to join the team in the third World Baseball Classic.

The defense attorneys for Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism, on Monday presented a new legal action to overturn his conviction, said the National Committee to Free the Five.

Members of the Cuban political opposition on Thursday described the request by the prosecutor of seven years in prison for Spanish citizen Angel Carromero as “excessive.” The young man was driving the vehicle in which opposition leaders Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero died