Posts Tagged Latin America and Caribbean

Bowie Young takes early lead on short course

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Heather Bowie Young made five straight birdies while hop-scotching across the golf course Friday in the Bahamas LPGA Classic.

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Dempsey makes late pass to win wild Freedom 100

In this timing and scoring camera image taken at the finish line and provided by IndyCar, driverJack Dempsey, top left, of Ireland, wins the Indy Lights Firestone Freedom 100 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Friday, May 24, 2013. Dempsey finished 0.026 seconds ahead Colombia's Gabby Chaves (7). (AP Photo/IndyCar)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ireland’s Peter Dempsey beat Firestone Indy Lights points leader Carlos Munoz and three other drivers down the front straightaway Friday to win the closest oval race in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history by 0.0026 seconds over Colombia’s Gabby Chaves.

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Dissidents find ‘Cuba outside Cuba’ in Miami

In this Friday, May 20, 2013 photo, Cuban dissidents Ladies in White, from left, Laura Labrada Pollan, Berta Soler, and Belkis Cantillo acknowledge the guests at the Freedom Tower in Miami. MDC President Dr. Eduardo J. Padron, far left, presented Soler with MDC’s Presidential Medal in homage to all the Ladies in White engraved, "Guardians of Freedom." Ladies in White is a group of women that began marching peacefully after the arrests of their sons and husbands in a 2003 crackdown on dissidents. They have faced detention and violence from pro-government mobs. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

MIAMI (AP) — When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition.

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LPGA to use as much of flooded course as it can

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — The LPGA Tour is going to use as much of the flooded Ocean Club course as it can for its inaugural trip to the Bahamas.

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Inaugural tournament cut to 54 holes

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — The LPGA Tour’s first trip to Paradise Island is being cut short by rain.

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