Cuban shortstop ready to join Blue Jays

ARLINGTON, TEXAS – Blue Jays prospect Adeiny Hechavarria has secured a U.S. visa and will report to the Blue Jays’ Florida training complex by week’s end, his agent says.<br /> Read More

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Graciela Perez-Grillo, legendary Afro-Cuban jazz singer, dies at age 94

The legendary Afro-Cuban jazz singer who blazed the trail for Hispanic pop stars like Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, died Wednesday after being hospitalized in New York for several weeks. She was 94. Read More

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Anti-U.S.-Cuba embargo group says FBI went to their homes

Federal agents have made unannounced visits to the homes of members of a group that visits Cuba each year to protest the U.S. ban against travel to the island, said group members and a lawyer who represents them. Read More

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Soon to start the 9th International Puppet Show Workshop in Matanzas

The doors that will give way to the ninth edition of the 2010 International Puppet Show Workshop in Matanzas are already open. <br /> Read More

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Agricultural exports to Cuba fall

Agricultural exports to Cuba declined by more than $180 million in 2009, down from a record $715 million in exports set in 2008, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service economist. Read More

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Perdue leading trade mission to Cuba

The state of Georgia is leading a trade mission to Cuba June 6-8 and is inviting companies involved in agriculture, fishing, forestry, medicine and telecommunications to go along. Gov. Sonny Per.<br /> Read More

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Experts Suggest to Expand Solar Energy Use

Cuban and foreign experts proposed to spread the experiences of the so called territorial solarization project that tries to use the solar energy sustainably.<br /> Read More

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Yalennis Castillo to Reappear at Pan Am Judo

After two years away from tatamis, the Olympic runner-up of the 2008 Beijing Games and the Best Sportswoman of Cuba that same year, Yalennis Castillo, of Holguin, will come back to elite events this weekend at the Pan American Judo Championship, with venue in El Salvador. Read More

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Nobel Peace Condemns anti-Cuban Campaign

Argentine Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace laureate, has added his voice in support of the initiative by the Mexican and Brazilian chapters of the network ‘In Defense of Humanity’ in defense of the Cuban nation and people, which are being the victims of a slander campaign orchestrated by the United States and its European allies. Read More

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Successful End to Cuban Tourist Presentations in France

After contacts with more than 600 French tourism professionals, representatives of Cuba's leisure industry qualified as successful the samples of the island in that European nation. Read More

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