The  Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) is open to incorporating island players from the U.S. Major Leagues into the national team for the next World Classic in 2023, according to statements by Juan Reynaldo Pérez, recently elected president of that entity. Pérez, who also holds the position of national commissioner, spoke this Friday on the Mesa Redonda television program, where he reiterated the FCB’s willingness to resume dialogue with the MLB, interrupted in 2019 after the cancellation of the agreement between the two entities by the Donald Trump administration. This agreement allowed the hiring of Cuban players in Major League organizations through legal and safe mechanisms, without the players having to give up their residence on the island or their link with the federation. At a press conference on April 12, Pérez told the press that achieving a stable link with the Major Leagues would guarantee “the natural flow of Cuban players to and from that circuit,” according to a report by the EFE news agency. The official clarified that the opening of the FCB will only be with baseball players who “love Cuban baseball.” This would include, he clarified, players in foreign leagues, even without the endorsement of the Federation....

Gray is a color present in the architecture of the Cuban capital, from the Malecón seaside wall to the stones of the centuries-old buildings of the Historic Center.

The entity’s new executive also spoke about relations with the U.S. Major Leagues and the World Confederation, his vision of the Caribbean Series and the eligibility to integrate the national team of Cuban baseball players outside the island.

The famous actor, born in Hong Kong, expressed his interest in strengthening cultural ties with the island during a visit to the Cuban embassy in China.

This was acknowledged by Minister José Ángel Portal Miranda at a press conference, where he highlighted that the COVID-19 pandemic was very hard for the country.

Riccardo Fraccari, president of the organization, confirmed that the only entities that can form a national team, use the colors, the uniform and the flag are the full members: the national federations.

It is the Destino Habanero Local Development Project (PDL), which after six months of being approved is still waiting for paperwork to be able to rent and refurbish the premise where they intend to establish themselves.

Despite the limitations imposed by the U.S. embargo/blockade, the island doubled the import of chicken from the northern nation in 2021. February marked the third highest historical value in that area.

Figures updated by a Customs and Border Protection agency report exceed the 35,000 migrants received during the 1994 rafters crisis.

The MINSAP reported that the flexibilization of measures — in force as of April 6 — were adopted taking into account the high rate of immunization in the country, where three doses and a booster were given to a large part of the population.

In February of this year alone, 16,657 people of Cuban origin arrived in the United States and, in their vast majority, through the border with Mexico.

As of April 1st, this Miami-based e-commerce platform will begin offering mobile recharges to the island and also for the Nauta Hogar home internet service.

Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines Liván Arronte confirmed that the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will provide “financial support” to the island “for the construction of 15 MW in photovoltaic parks,” although he did not specify the amount of said support.

The Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Abdala and Mambisa vaccines were chosen to receive the Medal for Inventors awarded by that organization. The director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Cuban president participated in the awarding ceremony.

The proposal regulates expropriation as a means of action of the State to satisfy general interests as a form of acquisition of goods and rights for the state assets.

The driver of the vehicle, hired by the government, was found guilty of four of the five charges for which he was accused in relation to the kidnapping, and also of the murder of one of the two police officers who were escorting the Cuban professionals.

“I tried to reflect that Cuban society is plural, there are those who are absolutely supporters of the government and do not admit criticism and there are critics of the government, without the possibility of dialogue, but in the middle there is an observer, polemicist, critical and active society; this is one of the novelties of the current Cuban situation,” pointed out the author of “Cuba, el futuro a debate” (Cuba, the future under debate).

Porter brought together instrumentalists and singers from different groups in a studio in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to record ten songs that represent the island’s traditional music genres.

The intellectuals consider that the Cuban State has responded to the protests with “disproportionate political and legal violence,” and ask that after being released from prison “the private and public responsibilities in the face of violence associated to the outbreak” be defined “precisely, proportionally and strictly in accordance with the law.”

Our young people migrate within Cuba and abroad, they look for work alternatives that favor more earnings and less education, and they have fewer and fewer children.

Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil stated that in this scenario, the Cuban government will analyze “one by one” the state enterprises that have projected losses with a view to “proposing measures to reverse the situation in each of the cases, because they won’t be the same for all of them.”

The MINREX also keeps track of the arrival of Cuban citizens to Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, from Ukraine, where on February 24 Russia launched an invasion, according to PL.

The report from the Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) reflects that the increase in visitor arrivals to the island experienced during the months of November and December of last year, had a notable decrease during the first month of 2022.

This March 11 marks two years since the first cases of coronavirus on the island, precisely the same day that the WHO declared the pandemic.

The State Department specified that, once they start, these services “will be limited exclusively to family-sponsored immigrant visa petitions” and confirmed that “Cubans who request a visitor’s permit will still have to travel to a third country, such as Guyana, to be interviewed by a U.S. consular official.”