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Cuban gold medallist who swam the Rio Grande for new life is back at the Olympics

Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez was a national hero after Tokyo 2020 but defected and is now part of the Refugee Team

The Guardian - UK

SI:AM | One of the Greatest Olympians Ever Says Goodbye

Cuba’s Mijaín López did what no Olympic athlete in history has done.

Sports Illustrated

Cuba's Yusneylis Guzmán Lopez To Replace Vinesh Phogat

Vinesh Phogat disqualified from Olympic final for missing weight, replaced by Yusneylis Guzmán Lopez to face Sarah Hildebrandt.

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'Gold lana hai! Gold': Vinesh Phogat's promise to her mother after reaching Paris Olympics wrestling final - WATCH

NEW DELHI: India's star wrestler Vinesh Phogat made history by advancing to the final of the women's freestyle 50kg wrestling at the Paris 2024 Olympics. On Tuesday at Champ-de-Mars Arena Mat B, she defeated Cuba's Yusneylys Guzman with a 5-0 score in the semi-finals. This achievement marks her as the…

The Times of India

Mijaín López makes greatness look easy with Greco-Roman gold

Mijaín López walked away from his sixth Games as arguably the greatest Olympian of all time, after winning yet another gold in Greco-Roman wrestling

The Guardian - UK

Cuban Wrestler Mijaín López Retires in Cool Fashion After Fifth Straight Gold Medal

The icon of his sport needed no words Tuesday.

Sports Illustrated

Cuban Wrestler Mijaín López Makes Olympic History With Fifth Gold

Cuban wrestler Mijaín López makes history with 5th Olympic gold in Tokyo, retiring in an emotional final match. Acosta wins silver, and global talent shine...

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

The Conversation

How Chávez's Socialist Revolution Created the Venezuelan Dictator Nicólas Maduro

Under collectivism, "a man must be prepared to break every moral rule," F.A. Hayek observed in 1944.

Reason

Vinesh Phogat: The Warrior Princess

NEW DELHI: Vinesh Phogat on Tuesday became India's first woman wrestler to reach the Olympic final and guaranteed herself of at least a silver medal after beating Cuba's Yusneylys Guzman 5-0 in the semis.

The Times of India

Father with pins and needles told by doctors he has huge deadly brain tumour

When Rob and Alison went on a trip to Cuba he started complaining about feeling pins and needles in his fingers and face

The Independent UK

Mijaín López wrestles with the prospect of becoming the greatest Olympian of the modern era

The Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler moved one fight away from an unrivalled fifth consecutive gold in a single event in Paris on Monday

The Guardian - UK

Mijaín López aims for unparalleled glory in race against the clock

Only foe of Cuban is time itself as 41-year-old bids for fifth consecutive Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling

The Guardian - UK

My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump

Democrats are finding it increasingly difficult to connect with Latino voters — especially Cubans, who associate left-wing politics with the communism that tore their country apart. Jesus Maria Alvarez reports on the deep rifts within his community in the battleground state of Florida

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Tropical Depression Expected To Bring Heavy Rain To Florida

Tropical depression intensifying over Cuba to bring heavy rainfall and coastal flooding to Florida's Gulf Coast. Hurricane Carlotta weakening off Mexico's ...

The Independent UK

Forecasters expect depression to become Tropical Storm Debby as it nears Florida's Gulf Coast

Forecasters say a tropical depression over Cuba is growing better organized and is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast

France 24

Plea deal for accused 9/11 plotters revoked by US defence secretary

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. The cases against the 9/11 defendants have been delayed in pre-trial maneuverings for years, while the…

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Biden Administration Suspends Permits For Four Nationalities

Biden administration suspends permits for individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela due to concerns about financial sponsor fraud. Efforts to ...

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Latin Times

U.S. freezes humanitarian parole for Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans amid fraud allegations

The Department of Homeland Security said it temporarily paused the issuing of advance travel authorizations for the program "out of an abundance of caution"

The Independent UK

Florida braces for flooding from a possible tropical storm

A storm system brewing over Cuba on Friday could likely bring torrential rain and flooding to the Florida peninsula this weekend

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Biden Administration Pauses Controversial Migrant Program Due To Fraud

Biden administration pauses program for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants due to fraud concerns.

The Independent UK

North Korea's former No.2 diplomat in Cuba recalls dramatic, swift defection in likely blow to Kim

Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s former No.2 diplomat in Cuba, who has resettled in South Korea, says he fled to South Korea with his family last November in frustration over his highly repressive, corrupt homeland

Latin Times

Almost 9 in 10 Cubans live in 'extreme poverty' amid spiraling crisis, study shows

Seven in ten respondents have cut meals due to lack of money or shortages

The Conversation

Cuba’s Olympic delegation is the smallest in decades — and it reveals the country’s socioeconomic crisis

Cuba is often expected to punch above its weight at the Olympics. Cuban boxers, for example, have won the second-highest amount of medals in Olympic history at 78, with 41 of them gold.

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Russian Warships Arrive In Cuba, Deepening Ties

Russian warships make a second visit to Cuba, showcasing military strength and strategic alliances in response to U.S. and Western support for Ukraine.

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