The Cuban team that will participate on February 5 to 13 in the 2nd Baseball Series of the Americas was presented with its flag at Havana’s Latin American Stadium by the renowned former pitcher and coach Pedro Luis Lazo and received by team captain Alfredo Despaigne Rodríguez, symbolically escorted by outfielders Roelquis Gibert and Roel Santos.

In front of the La Periquera Provincial Museum, the people of Holguín paid posthumous tribute to the 32 Cuban combatants who fell during the U.S. attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. With profound sorrow, Cuba mourned its sons, while at the same time trembling with pride in knowing them to be worthy, to never waver or betray history, and to defend just causes, peace, and the sovereignty of the Americas.

Customs authorities at Frank Pais International Airport in Holguín seized 121 kilograms of protected marine species this weekend, including hawksbill turtle meat, which a couple was attempting to smuggle to the United States, Armando Rodriguez Batista, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym), reported on his Facebook profile.