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Cuba Baseball Playoffs All Set to Begin

Defending champions Villa Clara squeaked into the playoffs of the 2013-2014 Cuban baseball season with an 8-2 must win on the final day of the schedule on Tuesday in Holguin. The semi-final match ups are Matanzas (last year’s runners-up) vs. Villa Clara and Havana’s Industriales vs. Pinar del Rio.

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Cuba’s Alex Guerrero’s Odd Debut in MLB

It was a most unlikely debut staged in a most unlikely venue, but with his brief appearance in the ninth inning of Saturday night’s big league season opener between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona D-Backs, former Las Tunas shortstop Alex Guerrero entered the record books as the 175th Cuban native to appear in a major league uniform.

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Cuban MD Couple Defect in Brazil

The Cuban doctors Dorayda Igarza Jesus Ayala and Walter Cotarelo Carbonell were officially added to the statistics of defections from the Cuban medical mission in Brazil, Café Fuerte repoted.

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A Rock Band Very Few Know in Cuba

Cuarteto de Nos is an Uruguayan rock band that made a very powerful first impression on me with their music video – the only one I’ve seen, in fact – for the song Ya no se que hacer conmigo (“I No Longer Know What to do With Myself”), from the album Raro (“Weirdo”).

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That Gift Called Mandela

Desmond Tutu called Mandela a gift to humanity. I believe this is the best description I’ve heard of a man who – in prison, in power or at home – has accompanied us a good part of our lives. Mandela was, quite simply, immense and, thanks to his tenacious company, we are all in one way or another better people.

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