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September 25th

Sudden death in sports

The death of five athletes in one week stirred debate around a problem that affects the world of sports: Sudden Death Syndrome Read More

Cuba wins NORCECA Women's Volley and gets ticket to World Cup

Cuba won the gold medal at the 2007 NORCECA Women's Continental Championship which wrapped up September 22 in Winnipeg, Canada. Read More

Felipe Perez Roque, Cubas Foreign Minister is in New York for UN Assembly

Perez Roque will participate in the General Assemblys High-level Event on Climate Change, called by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Read More

Cuban medics for Jamaica

Cuban nurses and doctors will come to Jamaica soon, to stem the shortfalls in Jamaicas health sector. Read More

Angolan Presidents Impressions of His Meeting with Fidel Castro

President Dos Santos recalled the aid given by Cuba to Angola in the 1970s when there was extreme violence and a plot to defeat the Movement for the Liberation of Angola and prevent independence from being proclaimed in that country. Read More

Professor recounts exodus from Cuba

Operation Pedro Pan was the movement of 14,000 unaccompanied minors out of communist Cuba to Miami during the early 1960s partially funded by the U.S. government. Read More

Venezuela lends Cuba USD 100 million

The new railroads will make Cuban trains travel as fast as 100 kilometers per hour, instead of 40 kilometers per hour at the present time. Read More

September 24th

Juan Formell and los Van Van to South Korea

Los Van Van, group that has been on the top of the fame for some decades is characterized by his cuban taste and contagious rythm Read More

National Meeting of Trios in Sancti Spiritus

National Meeting of Trios, to be celebrated from September 27 to 29 of the current year in Sancti Spiritus. Read More

Jerry weakens to a depression as it heads for cooler waters

At 1100 am ast 1500z the center of tropical depression Jerry was located near latitude 39.5 north, longitude 44.5 west or about 945 miles-1525 km west-northwest of the Azores. Read More