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Biran: Fertile Land

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Cuba.- Biran is a fertile, humid and flourishing land. Maybe these were the natural and climatic virtues that most impressed Don Angel Castro Argiz, former Spanish soldier, to settle in the region and develop the agricultural cultivations: sugar cane, forest and cattle. Read More

Tommy John surgery for A's bonus-baby Ynoa

<p style="text-align: justify;">(08-14) 04:00 PDT MINNEAPOLIS --Michael Ynoa made headlines two years ago when he received the largest-ever signing bonus for an international player not from Cuba. Read More

Raul Castro Meets with Panama President

Cuban President Raul Castro held talks with Panama's Ricardo Martinelli, who is on a private visit to Cuba. Read More

Another Try at the Cuba Swim, 32 Years Later

<p style="text-align: justify;">From 1968 to 1979, Diana Nyad, a long-distance swimmer, set several world records, including circling Manhattan in 7 hours 57 seconds in 1975. Before this month is out, Nyad, 60, plans to step off the shores of Cuba, near Havana, and swim 103 miles to Key West. Read More

Lopez Obrador Thanks Fidel Castro for his Comments

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 14 (acn) Former Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanked Fidel Castro on Friday for the comments on him that the leader of the Cuban Revolution recently wrote in articles published by Cuban newspapers. Read More

Governor Bill Richardson: "Time for Western Hemisphere countries to collaborate"

<p style="text-align: justify;">Governor Bill Richardson has written an excellent Op Ed on US relations with Latin America. He offers the kind of visible conceptual framework and leadership that has been absent from the Obama Administration to date. Read More

Thousands of hectares of forest destroyed by fire in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:12 PM. HAVANA, Aug. 12, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- All together 5,711 hectares of forest in Cuba have been burnt down by fires from January to May, said official sources here on Thursday. Read More

Benefit planned for teen who was stuck in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">A benefit concert to raise money for the family of an Ontario teenager who spent more than three months stuck in Cuba under threat of imprisonment for a traffic accident will take place next month. Read More

An Excellent Meeting with Fidel, Declares Piedad Cordoba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 13 (acn) Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba described as excellent her meeting with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, held in this capital on August 12. Read More

Catholic church raises profile in Cuba with icon of virgin

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP. For the first time since the Cuban revolution half a century ago, an icon of Cuba's patron saint is making the rounds of the island in a sign of a gradual rapprochement between the Cuban authorities and the Catholic Church. Read More