The Fish Ark that you and your colleagues, and especially its founder Ivan Dibble, have set up in Mexico to help save rare fish from extinction is truly an inspiration and a model of what can be done in other countries to help conserve threatened and often largely unknown endemic fish species.
Read MoreNumerous doubts, confusions and controversies have already surrounded and sullied what should have been a smoothly run showcase event here at the Puerto Rico-based 2010 Pre-Mundial baseball tournament. With all of the top Caribbean and North and South American baseball-crazy countries (with the lone exception of Mexico) slatted to compete,
Read MoreCuba’s game Saturday night against the Dutch Antilles in the Pan American/World Cup qualifying tournament was postponed in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico due to heavy rains. The Cubans won their opener 9-1 over Venezuela on Friday. Cuba’s game on Sunday is against Argentina at 7:30 p.m. EST also in Mayaguez.
Read MoreCubacel also noted that some of the more sophisticated models of iPhones, even with international roving activated, encounter problems working in Cuba, as the Cuban technological platform is not yet able to accommodate these more complicated models.
Read MoreTeam Cuba won a lopsided game 11-0 over Nicaragua on Thursday in the second of five tune-up games in preparation for the Pan American Games and World Cup qualifying tournament Oct. 1-13 in Puerto Rico.
Read MoreCuba and Nicaragua began a 5-game exhibition series in San Jose de las Lajas on the outskirts of the Cuban capital on Wednesday evening with the hosts defeating the visitors 5-1.
Read MoreAlthough initially there was concern that the BP oil eruption would be pulled by the powerful Loop Current that circulates in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, dragging the oil as far as the Florida Keys, Miami, Cuba and possibly beyond, fortunately this has not happened.
Read MoreThe debate is sometimes sharp, at moments tense, closed; nor is it between individuals under the same conditions. Many revolutionaries and communists debate from the inside, which involves precariousness, patience and tolerance.
Read MoreI’ve read somewhere that there is a minimum 3-day stay requirement for casas particulares. Is that really the case?
Read MoreThe baseball world is now literally “atwitter” with the phenomenon of Aroldis Chapman’s first two innings of major league action–two altogether successful 3-up and 3-down frames in which the flame-throwing southpaw has unleashed several heaters clocked at between 103 and 105 mph.
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