The US New York Cosmos team landed in Havana on Monday, with Brazilian soccer royalty among the delegation, for a slightly unusual slice of the U.S. and Cuba's efforts to improve bilateral relations as it's the first trip by a major American soccer club to Cuba since 1978.... More
A dozen nations are competing from Friday to Sunday at the 5th ITTF Latin America Cup taking place in Havana's Ciudad Deportiva Sports Center.... More
The Baltimore Orioles will become the 1st US big league team to play in baseball-crazed Cuba since a diplomatic thaw, playing Havana's national team, a Cuban official recently said in Havana, following last December 17th when US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro announced an historic change of course after more than 5 decades of Cold War bad blood.... More
The main figures of Cuban track and field are enrolled at the Cuba-Barrientos Memorial Cup to be held from today until Thursday, May 28th at the Pan-American Stadium, east of the capital.... More
The two grandsons of US writer Ernest Hemingway, John and Patrick, said in Havana that they are happy with the new stage of relations between Cuba and their country.... More
Cuban slugger Alfredo Despaigne had an amazing performance in the Japanese Professional Baseball League by hitting 2 homers in the 10-6 win of his team, the Chiba Lotte Marines, over the Saitama Seibu Lions.... More
Cuban Chess player Leinier Dominguez devided the point with Russian Evgeny Tomashevsky in round eight of the FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on Friday.... More
Because playing is a right of children and a human need throughout life, Cuba will make the celebration of May 28th, the International Game Day, a giant party and for all, an opportunity to learn and grow together, embracing children, adolescents, young and adults.... More
In a more friendly than competitive activity, Cubans sailing ships beat the Americans in the "Havana Challenge" Regatta, to be held until next 21st in waters off the Havana's Malecon seafront.... More
Athletes from Cuba and the United States held a regatta today in the waters of Havana's Malecon seafront, which was more symbolic than competitive, because it was a very friendly cap between the two countries following the announcement of the intention of both governments to restore diplomatic relations.... More
Reynier Mena set a national junior record in the men's 100 meters dash, clocking 10.22 sec. at the Rafael Fortun Sport Memorial staged in the city of Camagüey.... More
Cuba remained unbeaten by winning, on Thursday, the fourth game of the Maximo Gomez Men's Volleyball Cup, held throughout the week and continuing in different cities in the Dominican Republic.... More
Cuban Leinier Dominguez defeated Russian Dmitry Jakovenko on Friday in the second round of the Chess Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Dominguez won in 36 moves with a semi-Slavic defense and earned 1,5 points and comes first after two matches.... More
In September 2014, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund coordinated a trip to Cuba with Ernest Hemingway's grandsons John and Patrick to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature, which he donated to the people of Cuba, with celebrations in the fishing town of Cojimar and Hemingway's estate, Finca Vigia.... More
Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez will participate beginning Thursday in the 4th and final phase of World Chess Grand Prix from May 14th to 26th in the Russian city of Khanty Mansik.... More
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