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Cuba wins and sits down to wait in the U-23 Baseball World Cup – Juventud Rebelde

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With its second victory in a row, the Cuban team concluded its performance in the preliminary phase of the U-23 Baseball World Cup, but until the conclusion of the competitive day, it will not know what its fate will be.

The success against Australia with a score of 3-1 kept Alain Álvarez’s team alive, needing other combinations to qualify for the super round of six.

The Caribbean team took advantage in the opening chapter due to the first of two trailers by Guillermo García García in the match, whose hit drove in Cristhian Hidalgo, who walked on base.

Australia evened the score in the fourth leg, when he loaded the bases off starter Naykel Cruz with a pair of hits and a walk.

In that situation, the also left-handed Oscar Hernández was called to the box, who forced the two opposing batters to connect ground balls through the box, but with the first of them Pedro Pablo Revilla blinked when he fielded it and could not serve at home plate or attempt a double play .

One inning later, the Cubans completed a couple of laps to seal their second victory after three defeats in the championship. Revilla and Guillermo were the protagonists of the RBI and sacrifice fly.

The clash had been started by pitcher Roberto Hernández (1.0 INN, 1K and 1BB) last Friday when the rain prevented the completion of the first inning. Now at the restart, Naykel started (2.1, 1CL, 2H, 1K and 3BB) and the winner Oscar Hernández (2.0, 1H and 1BB) and the savior Leodan Reyes (1.2, 2H and 3K) followed, in another demonstration of good Cuban pitching conditions.

With this result, both teams conclude with the same balance of 2-3 and must wait for the other two games in their group, between the only classified, Korea (4-0), against Mexico (2-2), and Puerto Rico ( 2-2) against the Netherlands (2-3).

For Cubans, the best thing is that Asians and Puerto Ricans win to ensure a quota without having to go to the TQB

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Police, repressors and ‘artists’ brigades’: the deployment of the MININT to avoid more protests

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several Cubans denounced Radio Television Martí what the Ministry of Interior (MININT) has carried out a deployment of police agents, repressors and “artist brigades” in areas where protests have broken out in recent days to prevent these from happening again.

A Cuban named Luis Hernández, who lives in Quivicán, Mayabeque, told the US-based media outlet that in his area of ​​residence police officers are visiting the houses of people who they have manifested one way or another against the government.

“A person approached me and told me they went to his house. They are in the park at night and if there is someone who is sitting there, they approach him and ask him what he does”Hernandez said.

The opposition Kessel Rodríguez, who was recently beaten while participating in a protest, said that also in the Siboney neighborhood, located in San Francisco de Paula, Havana, has observed the constant passage of police patrols and troops from different repressive bodies.

Meanwhile, many supporters of the regime have shared images in the social networks of artistic brigades organized by the MININT in areas such as Pinar del Río and Camagüey.

According to the declarations of the opposition Egberto Escobedo, resident in Camagüey, the Cuban authorities intend with these brigades “defuse tensions and temper protests.”

“I don’t think it’s just for entertainment because in those places where they do that is where there have been protests and they say they are cultural brigades of the MININT (…) as if to smooth things over and perhaps as an example, now that cauldrons are sounding in the building, the music is loud and that is not heard,” he added.

After the protests unleashed on September 29, There would be more than 30 Cubans detained for their participation in these popular demonstrations.

About half of the protests have taken place in Havanawhere most of the 30 arrests recorded by activist groups have also been concentrated.

NGOs have denounced the use of violence by the security forces and pro-government groups and announced that soon some criminal proceedings will begin by direct attestation for those arrestedto whom they warned that he was going to be accused of the alleged crimes of public disorder, contempt and resistance.

These protests, from demonstrations to sit-ins, passing through street closures and cacerolazos, are eminently peaceful, often with entire families walking, in groups that can range from several dozen to a few hundred. The main claim is the resumption of the current, but cries of “Freedom!” and against the government.

Cuts in electricity supply are one of the most sensitive elements of the multifaceted crisis that Cuba is sufferingas well as one of the main reasons behind the protests against the Government of the July 11 last year, the highest in decades.

According to the NGO Cubalex and the group Justicia 11J, After these protests, more than 1,500 arrests have been made and nearly 600 sentences have been handed down.some of up to 30 years in prison.

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Cuban missile crisis.. Will Putin repeat the crisis of Kennedy and Khrushchev?

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United State The Soviet Union, the two largest nuclear powers in the world, is on the brink nuclear war I held my breath for 13 whole days.

This year’s anniversary coincides with:

The Russian President’s wave Vladimir Putinand his inner circle, on the possibility of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

• Statements of the US President joe bidenthat "The world faces the threat of nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis".

• Reports about the intention of Russia Establishing a military base in Cuba To surround the American Miami after attempts to ally "NATO"Extension eastward towards the Russian flanks.

How did the Cuban missile crisis arise?

• The Cuban Revolution overthrew the leadership of Fidel Castroby virtue of the General BatistaWashington’s main ally at the time.

• Castro went to New York to secure its support, but the former president Eisenhower He refused to talk to him.

• After the rejection, talk to my representatives soviet union at the United Nations and offered his government’s support.

• Attracted by friendship and Soviet support to the leader Nikita Khrushchevand his government to communism.

• Castro nationalized all US-owned companies in Cuba, and refused to pay compensation.

The beginning of the crisis .. What happened?

• In April 1961, after his inauguration as President of the United States, he agreed to John Kennedyon a plan to invade Cuba and overthrow the Castro regime.

• Washington wanted to respond to Castro and stop the Russian expansion in Cuba, after he approached its strategic depth.

• Kennedy imposed a trade embargo on Cuban goods, depriving Cubans of a market for sugar and tobacco and the import of oil and other goods.

• lowered US Central Intelligence 1400 Cuban exiles, in "Bay of Pigs" on the southern coast of Cuba to provoke an uprising against Castro.

• That operation failed after Kennedy withdrew from its support with the Air Force.

How escalated the Cuban missile crisis?

• After a failed operation "Bay of Pigs" Castro agreed with the Soviets to publish medium range missiles in Cuba to deter Washington.

• His goal was to prevent any American attempt to overthrow him, and Cuba became an advanced military base for the Soviets.

• August 1962, the governments of Cuba and the Soviet Union proceeded to build secret bases for a number of medium-range nuclear missiles, MRBM and IRBM in Cuba, which give the possibility of striking most of the territory of the United States.

• On October 14, I picked up american spy plane Flying over Cuba, pictures show those rules.

• In the face of the expansion of the Soviets, Kennedy, to show his strength as the leader of a superpower, imposed the embargo on Cuba, to prevent the arrival of Soviet missiles.

• On October 22, 1962, a naval blockade was imposed to prevent Soviet ships suspected of carrying them nuclear missiles from arriving in Cuba.

• Kennedy called the blockade "Quarantine area"In it, he saw an opportunity to buy time to negotiate with the Soviets.

• On October 23, Washington received the first message from Nikita Khrushchev, then-President of the Soviet Union, saying that the Soviet ships would not stop at the blockade, but would make their way.

• As a result, the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was the hottest episode of the Cold War, erupted.

• It lasted for 13 days, and the world seemed to be on the brink of nuclear war.

How was the crisis resolved?

• October 27, Kennedy received a second letter from Khrushchev, saying that the bases in Cuba would be removed as long as America removed its missiles from Turkey.

• Kennedy chose to respond to the first telegram and his team discussed the possibility of removing those missiles.

• October 28, in a public letter to Kennedy broadcast on "Radio Moscow"Khrushchev agreed to remove all missiles from Cuba.

• The 20 Russian ships that approached the US blockade of Cuba turned back, to prevent confrontation with the US Navy.

Why did Russia deploy those missiles in the first place?

• Closing the missile gap, and in response to America’s deployment of medium and long-range nuclear missiles in Britain, Italy and Turkey, where it was able to hit Moscow with more than 100 nuclear-tipped missiles.

• Washington’s bargaining in negotiations Berlinaccording to the site "BBC" British.

• Khrushchev wanted to strengthen his political position.

• Support for Cuba, the country communism The new one that was America’s back garden.

Washington and Moscow earnings:

• The two sides considered that they had achieved victory, so Khrushchev saved the communist regime in Cuba from an American invasion, and negotiated a deal with Washington regarding the removal of missiles "Jupiter" From Turkey, according to Western reports.

• Kennedy kept his electoral promise to stand up to the Soviet Union, and kept nuclear missiles out of Cuba.

• A hotline has been established that provides direct telephone contact between White House AndKremlin To ensure ease of communication between them in the event of a future conflict.

• eventually led to Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963.

Peter Alex, a US military expert, told "Sky News Arabia"that "The sixtieth anniversary of the Cuban crisis is passing through difficult days in which the world is facing its most complex crises and a terrifying atmosphere from Moscow’s use of nuclear weapon".

He adds: "Through the lessons of the Cuban missile crisis, the Russian and American sides should benefit from the position of John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev. Each achieved what he wanted and did not close the door to diplomacy between them.".

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During the Cuban missile incident, United State The Soviet Union, the two largest nuclear powers in the world, is on the brink nuclear war I held my breath for 13 whole days.

This year’s anniversary coincides with:

The Russian President’s wave Vladimir Putinand his inner circle, on the possibility of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

• Statements of the US President joe bidenThe world faces the threat of nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Reports about the intention of Russia Establishing a military base in Cuba to encircle the American Miami after the attempts of a pactNATO‘ Stretch east towards the Russian flanks.

How did the Cuban missile crisis arise?

• The Cuban Revolution overthrew the leadership of Fidel Castroby virtue of the General BatistaWashington’s main ally at the time.

• Castro went to New York to secure its support, but the former president Eisenhower He refused to talk to him.

• After the rejection, talk to my representatives soviet union at the United Nations and offered his government’s support.

• Attracted by friendship and Soviet support to the leader Nikita Khrushchevand his government to communism.

• Castro nationalized all US-owned companies in Cuba, and refused to pay compensation.

The beginning of the crisis .. What happened?

• In April 1961, after his inauguration as President of the United States, he agreed to John Kennedyon a plan to invade Cuba and overthrow the Castro regime.

• Washington wanted to respond to Castro and stop the Russian expansion in Cuba, after he approached its strategic depth.

• Kennedy imposed a trade embargo on Cuban goods, depriving Cubans of a market for sugar and tobacco and the import of oil and other goods.

• lowered US Central Intelligence 1,400 Cuban exiles, in the “Bay of Pigs” on the southern coast of Cuba, to provoke an uprising against Castro.

• That operation failed after Kennedy withdrew from its support with the Air Force.

How escalated the Cuban missile crisis?

• After a failed operation”Bay of PigsCastro agreed with the Soviets to publish medium range missiles in Cuba to deter Washington.

• His goal was to prevent any American attempt to overthrow him, and Cuba became an advanced military base for the Soviets.

• August 1962, the governments of Cuba and the Soviet Union proceeded to build secret bases for a number of medium-range nuclear missiles, MRBM and IRBM in Cuba, which give the possibility of striking most of the territory of the United States.

• On October 14, I picked up american spy plane Flying over Cuba, pictures show those rules.

• In the face of the expansion of the Soviets, Kennedy, to show his strength as the leader of a superpower, imposed the embargo on Cuba, to prevent the arrival of Soviet missiles.

• On October 22, 1962, a naval blockade was imposed to prevent Soviet ships suspected of carrying them nuclear missiles from arriving in Cuba.

• Kennedy called the blockade “the Quarantine Zone”, in which he found an opportunity to buy time to negotiate with the Soviets.

• On October 23, Washington received the first message from Nikita Khrushchev, then-President of the Soviet Union, saying that the Soviet ships would not stop at the blockade, but would make their way.

• As a result, the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was the hottest episode of the Cold War, erupted.

• It lasted for 13 days, and the world seemed to be on the brink of nuclear war.

How was the crisis resolved?

• October 27, Kennedy received a second letter from Khrushchev, saying that the bases in Cuba would be removed as long as America removed its missiles from Turkey.

• Kennedy chose to respond to the first telegram and his team discussed the possibility of removing those missiles.

• October 28, in a public letter to Kennedy broadcast on “Radio Moscow”, Khrushchev agreed to remove all missiles from Cuba.

• The 20 Russian ships that approached the US blockade of Cuba turned back, to prevent confrontation with the US Navy.

Why did Russia deploy those missiles in the first place?

• Closing the missile gap, and in response to America’s deployment of medium and long-range nuclear missiles in Britain, Italy and Turkey, where it was able to hit Moscow with more than 100 nuclear-tipped missiles.

• Washington’s bargaining in negotiations BerlinAccording to the British BBC website.

• Khrushchev wanted to strengthen his political position.

• Support for Cuba, the country communism The new one that was America’s back garden.

Washington and Moscow earnings:

• The two sides considered that they had achieved victory. Khrushchev saved the communist regime in Cuba from an American invasion, and negotiated a deal with Washington regarding the removal of “Jupiter” missiles from Turkey, according to Western reports.

• Kennedy kept his electoral promise to stand up to the Soviet Union, and kept nuclear missiles out of Cuba.

• A hotline has been established that provides direct telephone contact between White House AndKremlin To ensure ease of communication between them in the event of a future conflict.

• eventually led to Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963.

Peter Alex, an American military expert, told Sky News Arabia, “The sixtieth anniversary of the Cuban crisis is passing through difficult days for the world, which is facing its most complex crises and a terrifying atmosphere from Moscow’s use of nuclear weapon“.

He adds: “Through the lessons of the Cuban missile crisis, the Russian and American sides should benefit from the position of John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev, each of which achieved what he wanted and did not close the door to diplomacy between them.”

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Hurricane Ian completely collapsed 38 houses in Havana and damaged more than a thousand

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Havana

The recent passage of Hurricane Ian through western Cuba caused the total collapse of 38 homes in Havana, as well as partial damage and damage to the roofs of another 1,131 houses, the government of the capital reported Tuesday.

In the first total count of Ian’s ravages in Havana, the governor of the territory, Reynaldo García Zapata, also reported that 100% of the city’s electrical system was affected and 17,760 people were evacuated from danger zones in shelters. state and in family homes.

García Zapata indicated that the affected lines and circuits of the electricity service were 100% restored in the seven days until Tuesday, although 8 poles and 20 transformers are still pending replacement.

Housing and electricity received the greatest impact from Ian’s hurricane winds, which crossed the province of Pinar del Río, the westernmost province of the island, from south to north a week ago, where it caused great damage and extended its severe effects to its neighbors. Artemisa, Havana and Mayabeque.

This blow to the electrical system caused a general blackout throughout the country and aggravated the situation that for several months has generated daily power cuts throughout the country due to breakages and failures in the outdated thermoelectric plants, lack of fuel and scheduled maintenance.

The lack of power for several consecutive days has led to protests in several Havana neighborhoods in recent days, and also in the provinces of Camagüey (center) and the eastern Holguín and Guantánamo provinces.

The demonstrators banged on pots, blocked traffic avenues and sat down to demand “light” and, in some cases, shouted political demands. The independent media outlet Proyecto Inventario has registered 55 protests, most of them in Havana.

In addition, activists have reported 26 arrests -including at least one minor- and denounced that the security forces and plainclothes agents used violence against protesters.

The scourge of Hurricane Ian, the first to hit Cuba in the current cyclone season, left five dead and extensive material damage, until now only partially quantified.

This story was originally published on October 5, 2022 6:45 a.m.

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‘We want light’: Cubans get tired and go out to protest after two days of widespread blackout

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in the middle of a widespread blackout that has lasted two days, the Cubans went out to protest on the Hill, as seen in several videos circulating on social networks.

The doctor based in Spain, Luis Enrique Nodarse, shared on your Facebook account five videos about a demonstration on a street in the Havana municipality of Cerro.

5 small videos from a couple of hours ago, on the Hill… women, as always, breastfeeding! They blocked the street and…

Posted by Lucio Enriquez Nodarse on Thursday, September 29, 2022

“Five small videos from a couple of hours ago, on the Hill. Women, as always, breastfeeding,” explains Nordarse.

In the images, a significant number of people are seen along the two sidewalks and blocking the street. Those blocking the street can be heard clearly shouting “we want light”.

“People are already tired, brother, it’s the same and the same,” a Cuban who is near the person recording the video is heard saying. “It’s grinding and grinding, it’s too much already. Here there is no revolution or anything, here what there is is a repression or involution and repression, it’s the only thing there is.”

A similar protest took place in the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, where residents also demanded electricity to the rhythm of a conga, in the middle of a cacerolazoas seen in a video shared on Facebook by a user identified as Jonatha Cortador. The demonstrators also shout “we want the light”.

Arroyo Naranjo in the street, this is over, the end of the tyranny is coming. #CubaPaLaCalle

Posted by Jonathan Cutter on Thursday, September 29, 2022

On Tuesday, September 27, the technical director of the Electric Union (UNE), Lázaro Guerra Hernández, reported that a fault in the SEN, which caused “zero electricity generation” and consequently a general blackout throughout Cuba.

Although yesterday afternoon the UNE said that started serving to a part of the consumers in 12 provinces of the country, to many Cubans the blackout was not over today thursday.

The lack of electricity has caused many to spoil the food in the refrigerator. Those who cook with gas can avoid it by boiling the meat, as several interviewed by DIARIO DE CUBA have done, but those who also depend on electricity to cook do not have that option.

In this situation, the official press is dedicated to highlighting the Government’s concern for advancing in the country’s recovery and to justify the problems, but the population seems to have tired of explanations.

Another video, posted on Twitter by Cuban influencer Paparazzi and shared by user Victor M. Dueñas, shows a crowd of Cubans booing officials of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) from Surgidero in the street in Batabanó.

Among the officials, presumably was Miguel Díaz-Canelaccording to the Dueñas post.

“Cubans boo and expel Canel along with other PCC officials from Surgidero Batabanó,” Dueñas tweeted when sharing the video.

These are not the only protests that the prolonged general blackout has caused, which has already ended for a part of Cubans, but continues for many. DIARIO DE CUBA was able to verify that, at dawn on Wednesday, a group of Cubans took to the streets in the El Cocal neighborhood, in the Holguin municipality of Mayarí.

A police agent sent to quell the demonstration told DIARIO DE CUBA that no one was arrested, because the people dispersed as soon as the security forces appeared.

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Biden said Hurricane Ian may be the ‘deadliest’ in Florida history

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the american president Joe Biden warned this Thursday that the hurricane Ian may have been the “deadliest” in Florida history and claimed that will travel to the site “when conditions permit”.

“This could be the hurricane deadliest in history of Florida,” he said after a visit to the premises of the agency in charge of natural disasters (FEMA) in Washington, the AFP agency reported.

“The numbers are not yet clear, but we received information that show a substantial loss of life” by the hurricane, which devastated parts of this southeastern state of USA.

The president said that “when conditions permit, I will go to Florida,” and added that he would also plans to visit the Caribbean island territory of Puerto Rico, still recovering from Hurricane Fiona.

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Ian, downgraded to a tropical storm, made landfall Wednesday afternoon as a category 4 hurricane (on a scale of 5) in southwestern Florida, before continuing its path through the state, with strong winds and torrential rain. Some material damage was already visible a few hours after the hurricane passed.

For these hours more than 2.6 million homes or businesses remained without electricity, out of a total of 11 million, according to the specialized site PowerOutage.

Bidendeclared this Thursday the state of disaster in florida by the passage of the hurricane Iancategory 4, which implies funds for home repairs and temporary shelter, after the meteorological phenomenon forced the order to evacuation of more than 2 million people.

With the official declaration, the president ordered the delivery of federal aid to local authorities to begin work on recovery in the most affected areas, especially in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hardee, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties.

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