Anticipating the storm, about 10, 000 Cubans evacuated Saturday to Cuba's mainland from La Isla de Juventud, or Isle of Youth, a province south of the nation's western end.

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He was greeted at the Jose Marti International Airport, southwest of Havana, by Cuban leader Raul Castro with whom "he maintained a lively exchange, " Cuba's state-run Juventud Rebelde newspaper said.

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Chenor Bah, representante de la juventud estudiantil, el Sr.

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