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Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
In the Occidental League the Vegueros of Pinar del Rio have sole possession of first place with 10 wins and seven losses. The Industriales are one game behind with eight wins and seven losses. The big stars of the XLVIII National Baseball Series are the Naranjas of Villa Clara, which is the only unbeaten team in the Oriental League. They have 13 straight victories, with no defeats. Ciego de...
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Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... place Industriales (14-12) salvaged one win against La Habana (16-8) but fell three games back. Pinar del Rio (13-14) won one of three games against Metropolitanos (11-16) and is in third place 4.5 games out. Isla de la Juventud and Sancti Spiritus are both 11-14 and 5.5 games out followed by Metropolitanos (11-16), Matanzas (9-18) and Cienfuegos 7-18).A full schedule of play resumes on...
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Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
... and Palau supporting the United States in its dissent. Los Van Van play for hurricane victims in Pinar del Rio. Cuba’s Ministry of Labor gives state institutions and businesses until mid-December to institute new pay incentives for greater worker productivity. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visits Cuba and invites President Raul Castro to attend the Latin American and Caribbean...
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Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
Sancti Spiritus swept its weekend series over Pinar del Rio with Elier Sanchez connecting eight hits including three round trippers. Industriales and La Habana are tied atop the West and Villa Clara leads in the East.
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DS Articles (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
... 10,328 square miles of the country’s territory. They include the Valley of Viales in Pinar del Rio (a world heritage site by UNESCO) and several other areas that have been awarded the category of World Biosphere Preserves. Cuba’s cities have great architectural diversity: more than five centuries of styles, including colonial, pre-baroque, baroque, neo-gothic, neoclassical, eclectic, art...
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Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
Villa Clara (11-0), Ciego de Avila (11-1) and Holguin (10-2) are in a hell of a fight for the early lead in the Eastern Division of the Cuban Baseball League. Meanwhile, Industriales (7-4) and Pinar del Rio (8-5) are tied in the West.
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DS Articles (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
... shark, swordfish, tuna and mackerel. For freshwater lake fishing for bass, perch and trout, try Pinar del Rio’s Laguna Grande and Moron’s Laguna La Redonda (easy access by causeway from Cayo Coco). Havana: The city, with a population of 2,180,000 the biggest in the Caribbean, mirrors all phases of the island’s turbulent story. Nowhere in Latin America will you find more handsome buildings...
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DS Articles (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
... to November, most likely in September and October and more often in the west around Havana and Pinar del Rio than in the east. Storm winds can reach 250 kph (156 mph). Swimmers take note: Caribbean waters are slightly warmer than the Atlantic. Postal services, as almost every where these days, are very slow and unreliable. If you have urgent mail, ask your hotel about the international courier...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Finally we are beginning the planned journey of the bloggers. The shouts delivered at the police station, the constant agent we’ve had with us since last Thursday, and the prohibition on travel to Pinar del Río weren’t much use. We ended up finding the cracks between the fingers of [...]
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Babalu Blog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
By Yoani Sanchez Finally we are beginning the planned journey of the bloggers. The shouts delivered at the police station, the constant agent we’ve had with us since last Thursday, and the prohibition on travel to Pinar del Río weren’t...
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Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... telephone interview. Authorities told the couple they could not travel to the western province of Pinar del Rio for a two-day blogger's workshop scheduled to begin Friday night. "We aren't attending the inauguration of the workshop, which has not been suspended. We've just changed the dynamic of how we are meeting," said Escobar, without elaborating. SITE BLOCKED An account of the reprimand...
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Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
If for some reason you’re not regularly reading Generation Y , the blog of the Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, here is the latest: The Ministry of the Interior ordered Yoani and her husband in for a chat (actually Ministry people did most of the talking) and told them that a planned workshop for Cuban bloggers in Pinar del Río would not take place. (The workshop happened anyway via other methods....
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
The gathering was supposed to involve about 20 bloggers and is being organized by Dagoberto Valdes, a Roman Catholic layman in Pinar del Rio. Valdes was the volunteer director of the church magazine Vitral, which gently called for more plurality and democratic participation, until he was removed from the post by the island's bishop in April 2007.
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
... a telephone interview.Authorities told the couple they could not travel to the western province of Pinar del Rio for a two-day blogger's workshop scheduled to begin Friday night."We aren't attending the inauguration of the workshop, which has not been suspended. We've just changed the dynamic of how we are meeting," said Escobar, without elaborating.An account of the reprimand appears on...
