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Slightly weaker Tomas may be a concern for Haiti

<p style="text-align: justify;">By CURTIS MORGAN. Hurricane Tomas on Sunday began what was expected to be a slow, weeklong march toward the Caribbean's largest islands. Read More

Omara Portuondo to Sing at the GW Lisner Auditorium

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, (acn) Omara Portuondo, the Queen of Feeling, will perform on Saturday,November 6, at the GW Lisner Auditorium of Washington DC, one of the most important stages of the US capital. The announcement, made by that US institution, points out that this “living legend of Cuba has shared her style of interpreting jazz and ballads with some of the most important and loved Cuban orchestras, and achieved international fame with the Buenavista Social Club.” Read More

Cuba defends Intercontinental Cup title

<p style="text-align: justify;">Taipei - Record champions Cuba won a third straight title in the baseball Intercontinental Cup on Sunday by defeating the Netherlands. Cuba cruised to a 4-1 victory over the Dutch at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium to lift the trophy an 11th time in 17 editions of the tournament. Cuba had also won the last title 2006 over the Dutch. Read More

Speaker makes plea to lift Cuban embargo

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Tracy Overstreet. Published: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:02 PM CDT. The United States placed a trade embargo on Cuba 54 years ago that remains in place today. "It is time to end the embargo," said Rosemarie Skaine, a Grand Island Senior High graduate and author. "Nowhere in the world has a country been asked for such a long time to live in isolation." Skaine was a keynote speaker Thursday at the Multicultural Coalition of Grand Island's sixth annual one-day conference. Read More

Lula Asks New President to Keep Exceptional Time in Brazil

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por Indira Santana.Domingo, 31 de octubre de 2010. 11:25Sao Paulo, Oct 31 (Prensa Latina) President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asks whoever is elected to succeed him this Sunday to maintain the growth trajectory of the extraordinary moment experienced in Brazil. Read More

Cuba Wins 2010 Intercontinental Cup

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban team beat Netherlands 4-1 in the gold medal game and became the champion of the 2010 Intercontinental Baseball Cup which began in Oct 23 in this city. An outstanding performance of starting right handed Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez secured the Cuban victory. Holland was second and Italy surprisingly got bronze after defeating Chinese Taipei 4-3. Gonzalez allows 2 hits in 8 innings, one of them by leadoff Curt Smith in the fourth inning with one out. Read More

Yordan Lizano, Young Cuban Promising Baseball Player

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Elsa Ramos. Sancti Spiritus’s young baseball star Yordan Lizano Rivero holds on tight his golden medal. He knows for sure this is his most precious treasure. Category 11-12 years old Cuban baseball team won the 5th World Championship recently September in Venezuela, and he was definitely part of it. More than two months he fought among other 44 baseball players in order to gain position in the national squad. Sacrifice meant to forget vacations time and getting involved in competitions. Finally, his hands helped him be elected regular in the team. Read More

LA ALBORADA: The Language of Concessions - Special Comment Part II

<p style="text-align: justify;">When governments that do not get along decide to improve relations, they use a certain diplomatic language: confidence-building , thaw, rapprochement,détente, mutual interests. They focus on points of coincidence on the way to resolving points of divergence, as the US did with China and Vietnam. Read More

Tomas battering the caribbean Islands

<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:59PM PDT. Tomas has been upgraded to a hurricane, with sustained winds near 75mph. It is battering many of the southern Windward Islands as can be seen on the above satellite image. I wish it would move a bit faster, esp. since it is quite a big storm. Read More

Cuba, Netherland reach Intercontinental Cup final

<p style="text-align: justify;">Taipei - Record champions Cuba and the Netherlands will contest baseball's Intercontinental Cup final for the second time in a row after claiming semi-final victories on Saturday. Read More