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Cuban baseball player Aroldis Chapman, pitcher for the New York Yankees, asked baseball fans around the world to support the Cuban Professional Ballplayers Association, recently created in Miami. “To all baseball fans and followers, I ask on behalf of myself and free Cubans, to support the Cuban Professional Ballplayers Association, so we can take a…
Cuba will host the 69th World Cocktail Championship, to be held from November 4 to 9, 2022, at the Meliá Internacional Hotel in Varadero, as announced Tuesday by José Rafa Malém, president of the Cuban Bartenders Association (ACC). At a press conference, Rafa Malém informed that members of the International Bartenders Association (IBA) are supervising…
Cuban television news system journalist Yunior Smith, known for his critical analysis of U.S. politics and reality, announced that he has reached the U.S. southern border, and will probably apply for political asylum. According to what he posted on his Facebook profile, he got tired “of plowing in the sand and decided to leave, to…
Mario Terán Salazar, the Bolivian military man blamed for the assassination of Ernesto Che Guevara in October 1967, died on Thursday, March 10, at the age of 80, in a military residence in the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. At 7:15 Bolivian time, he passed away at the Military Social Security Corporation (Cossmil), according to…
Scientists from the Cienfuegos Center for Environmental Studies (CEAC) and the Moscow Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) discussed climate testing of materials. The talks revolved around the Cuban-Russian station for climatic testing of materials and structural elements in the tropical conditions of the Caribbean, the 5 de Septiembre newspaper reported in its digital edition….
Cuban immigration authorities denied this Saturday, January 29, entry to Cuba to baseball player Yulieski Gourriel, who left the Cuban team at the 2016 Caribbean Series held in the Dominican Republic. Gourriel’s relatives were left waiting for him in Varadero, where they were going to spend a few days of vacation together, as announced by…
By agreement of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers, this Wednesday, January 12, four-time Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling champion Mijaín López received the keys to a Mercedes Benz E-200. Lopez was selected among the best athletes of 2021 in Cuba, after making history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, when he was crowned as…