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Carcaces foils Italy as Cuba win thriller

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba outlasted Italy in five sets (16-25, 26-24, 25-21, 25-23, 24-22) in a thrilling finale to second-round Pool F play at the FIVB Women's World Championship at Nippon Gaishi Hall on Wednesday night. Kenia Carcaces stole the show for Cuba, carrying her team to victory in a dramatic final set. She scored 10 points in the tie-breaker and finished the match with 34 points, all but three of them with attacks. Rachel Sanchez added 20 points including five blocks and two aces while Rosanna Giel totalled 16 points, with seven blocks. Read More

Dayron: Winning is vital in my career

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Harold Iglesias, Special for Cubasí. Winning is the maximum expression in sports, because beyond the fraternal exchange among athletes, its essence is competitiveness. Especially in time and mark disciplines where, besides the rivals, you compete with times and distances. It's really encouraging to know that in the mind of the 110m hurdles Olympic champion and world record holder, Dayron Robles, the maximum inspiration is to know himself victorious in whatever competition he shows up Read More

Cuba to eliminate ration cards introduced in 1962

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, 10 NOVEMBER, 2010: Cuba is proposing the orderly elimination of the ration card according to a document prepared for the ruling party Communist Congress scheduled for April next year.&nbsp; The social policy document under the heading of “Guidelines’ project for economic and social policy” went on sale yesterday here and is expected to be approved in the coming congress. The document anticipates “implementing the orderly elimination of the ration card, a regulated and fair distribution system at subsidised prices”. Read More

Cienfuegos Hosts Exhibition of Photographs on Indonesia

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.11.09 - 13:28:02 / [email protected]. CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.- The exhibit “La puerta de la amistad: imagenes de la vida cotidiana de Indonesia” (The gate of&nbsp; friendship: Indonesia’s everyday life) will be inaugurated on Thursday, November 11, in the central Cuban city of Cienfuegos. Read More

The connection between Havana, Cuba and Las Vegas

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday November 8, 2010 4:24pm PST.Jim Snyder reporting. It’s a rare, close-up look at a world most of us have never seen. Last month, News 3’s Jim Snyder had the opportunity to travel to Cuba under circumstances which allowed him fairly unrestricted access to observe life in Havana. In many ways, Havana was the birthplace of the modern Las Vegas. Read More

Next stop of Cuba’s Energy Revolution: Ecuador

<p style="text-align: justify;">Adding Ecuador to the list of countries that are implementing a Cuban-developed distributed energy system, Cuba has started deploying fuel-oil generators worth several hundred million dollars in the ALBA partner country. According to foreign suppliers, the project consists of a first phase for deployment of 160 mw in fuel-oil generators; the deployment of 40 mw is already underway. A second phase would add another 190 mw. Read More

Pitcher Lazo Confirms his Retirement

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban star pitcher Pedro Luis Lazo confirmed his retirement of active sport after a long career. Lazo said in an interview to Granma journal that 20 years is a long time; that young athletes deserve opportunities. Lazo, 37, two times World Champion, prefers to leave the mound before loosing his power and before batters begin to hit his pitching easily. He said that retirement should be seen normal because eventually it will come some day and will have to face it although is sad. He also said that is going to be though to be close to his teammates and not to pitch with them. Read More

Oil Spill Damage to U.S. Coral Revealed

<p style="text-align: justify;">U.S. scientists have found extensive damage to deep-sea coral reefs near the site where a British Petroleum oil platform sank in the Gulf of Mexico, CNN reported on Monday. Read More

Lula: G-20 Must Address Currency War

<p style="text-align: justify;">11/09/2010. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil wants to discuss the currency exchange issue during the G-20 Summit,given that everybody knows there is an exchange war that must be solved. Read More

Sosabravo, More Color at 80’s

<p style="text-align: justify;">11/08/2010. By: Giusette Leon Garcia. With a surprising energy at his eighty years of life, maestro Alfredo Sosabravo puts to the Cuban public's consideration an exhibition of his most recent work.&nbsp; Until next December, the Spanish American Center of Culture will be the venue of an exhibition with which the outstanding plastic arts artist has intended to demonstrate that he is still active. Several works made between years 2009 and 2010 prove this. Read More