Cuba’s President Raul Castro presided over the closing of the Third Annual Meeting of the Fruit Cooperatives in Bejucal, located in Mayabeque province, the Buenos Dias television program reported today.»

The Venezuelan government will release the first images today taken by its Miranda satellite after its launch from China on September 28.»

Juan de Dios Peña, a pitching coach for the Cuban baseball pre-team getting ready for the 3rd World Classic, assured that the national pitching staff will fulfil the expectations in that tournament, and announced who might be the possible starters.»

Guyana’s President Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar arrived in Cuba on an official visit to meet with his peer, Raul Castro.»

The Spanish Ballet of Cuba (BEC, in Spanish) will perform this week in Sancti Spiritus, as part of a national tour on occasion of its 25th foundation anniversary.»

The Provincial Court in the eastern Cuban territory of Granma sentenced Spanish citizen Angel Francisco Carromero to four years in prison for his involvement in a car accident in which two people lost their lives.»

Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz inaugurated on Sunday a new facility in the Sugar Mills Valley Viewpoint, declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1988, along with the city of Trinidad, in southern Sancti Spiritus.»

Cuban national soccer team faces Canada today in BMO Field, Toronto, in the fifth qualifying game for the World Cup Brazil 2014.»

Ricardo Alarcon, president of the People’s Power National Assembly (Cuban Parliament) met in Havana with the member of the Permanent Committee of China’s 11th People’s National Assembly, Fang Fengyou, who is also the vice-president of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the Chinese legislative body.»

Ensuring electoral logistics and the preparation of the estimated 14,000 people in Sancti Spiritus who will be working during the upcoming elections on October 21st in the Cuban central province, are to be verified Sunday, when 1202 polling stations open at 7:00 am to run the Dynamic Drill.»