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November 22, 2021

The Latin Grammy for Best contemporary classical work/composition in 2021 went to Cuban guitarist Manuel Barrueco for his album Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata para guitarra, by composer Roberto Sierra.

Source: Cibercuba

November 21, 2021

From Brother to Brother is the title of the most recent audiovisual production that, under the Bis Music record label, will arrive on the night of this Sunday, November 21st to Cubavisión Channel on Cuban television, in honor of the maestro Adalberto Álvarez (1948-2021).

Source: Televisión Cubana

November 21, 2021

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Valencia Basket continued today with their good streak in the Liga Endesa 2021-2022 basketball tournament in Spain, where they defeated Bilbao Basket 100-84 to add their third consecutive success in that tournament.

Source: ACN

November 19, 2021

As every year, the Latin Recording Academy announced on November 18 which Latin artists were awarded in 2021.

Source: Dime Cuba, Instituto Cubano de la Música

November 19, 2021

The Nuestra Belleza Latina pageant will reach its finale next Sunday, November 21st, and Cuban Fabién Laurencio de la Concepción is one of the four finalists of the Univision reality show.

Source: Cibercuba

November 18, 2021

A tribute to the King of Guaracha is constituted by the first album by Septeto Ñico Saquito that is already circulating with the title A saquito quita´o.

Source: Granma

November 18, 2021

Cuban Ariel Miranda was named for the Best Pitcher award given in the Korean Baseball League (KBO) this 2021.

Source: Swing Completo

November 17, 2021

Cuban opposition artist Yunior García Aguilera arrived in Spain this Wednesday, November 17, after authorities prevented him from leaving his house on Sunday and carried out acts of repudiation to prevent a solo march he had announced.

Source: BBC

November 17, 2021

"«Otra Revolución» is a cry for liberation.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

November 16, 2021

At 40 years old, Cuban right-handed pitcher Yunesky Maya continues to be a guarantee of success in the winter baseball championship in the Dominican Republic.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

November 16, 2021

The prominent Cuban singer Miguel Ángel Céspedes, brother of Pancho Céspedes, died Monday, November 15 in Havana at the age of 58.

Source: Cibercuba

November 15, 2021

Cuban Carlos Ángel Valdés managed to advance on Friday night to the battle rounds stage on La Voz España, following a spectacular performance of the song 'Believer' by Imagine Dragons.

Source: Periodico Cubano

November 15, 2021

If, fortunately, the work of Eugenio Hernández Espinosa appears widely published, in La pupila negra, a volume of Letras Cubanas signed by playwright and narrator Alberto Curbelo, is the life of the Negro Grande del Teatro, a qualifier that he would deserve from the author of a title that dignifies him.

Source: Granma

November 14, 2021

A special performance will take place today, Sunday, at the Martí theater, on the occasion of the 502nd anniversary of the capital of all Cubans In these days the name of the prestigious pianist and composer José María Vitier has been duly promoted both by the national press media and by social networks due to the Havana Concerto, a performance that together with notable guests will take place today, Sunday, at the Martí theater on the occasion of the 502nd anniversary of the capital of all Cubans.

Source: Cubadebate

November 14, 2021

Yasiel Puig was chosen by the specialized press; it is the first year that effectiveness and spectacular defensive plays are recognized Cuban Yasiel Puig, who played in the Major Leagues for seven years, won the "Defensive Player of the Year" award in the 2021 season of the Mexican Baseball League (LMB) for his performance with El Águila de Veracruz.

Source: ESPN Deportes

November 13, 2021

The Cuban artist who caused a sensation in 2017 with a mixture of funk music, Black heritage and traditional rhythms, was at Carrusel de las Artes, as part of his tour through Europe to promote his second album titled 'El Alimento', on which he collaborated with international artists.

Source: France24

November 13, 2021

Due to her excellence in the fight against COVID-19 and cancer treatments, environmental protection with new methods to eliminate metals from water and biomaterials applications, three women scientists from Latin America are recognized with the 2021 Latin American Women in Chemistry Award, recently reported by the Cubadebate platform.

Source: Granma

November 12, 2021

The Netflix network began broadcasting on November 5 the final season of the popular series "Narcos", this time focused on the 90s, following the imprisonment of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, and amid a war between cartels to seize the drug business in Mexico.

Source: Pan American World

November 12, 2021

The wife of Ronaldo Veitía, the award-winning Cuban judo coach, dies Ronaldo Veitía, the award-winning Cuban judo coach, suffered a great loss when his beloved wife, Mrs.

Source: Periodico Cubano

November 11, 2021

Amid days of disappointment over the exclusion of the Rookie of the Year award for Avileño José Adolis García after his tremendous season with the Texas Rangers, the Cuban baseball community received with approval the news that Baseball Digest, a prestigious specialized magazine, awarded the Baseball Digest/eBay American League Rookie of the Year Prize to Pinareño Randy Arozarena.

Source: Swing Completo

November 10, 2021

The 2021 season for Yuli Gurriel has been tremendous.

Source: Swing Completo

November 10, 2021

In the early morning hours of November 7, 2021, Consulting Professor of Legal Medicine and President of the Medical Ethics Commission of the Faculty of Medical Sciences "General Calixto García Íñiguez", Dr.

Source: Infomed

November 9, 2021

Popular Cuban singer Leoni Torres has begun taking steps to settle completely in Miami and not just with music.

Source: Cubacute

November 9, 2021

After fighting for his life for several days, on Thursday, November 4th, one of the best coaches that Cuban baseball has had passed away.

Source: Swing Completo

November 8, 2021

Cuban poet and journalist Raúl Rivero Castañeda died on Saturday, November 6 in Miami at the age of 75, according to confirmation from his wife, Blanca Reyes Castañón.

Source: Infobae

November 8, 2021

The International Festival of Short Films and Alternative Cinema of Benalmádena (Ficcab) once again surprised and moved audiences at its opening gala.

Source: Ole Benalmadena

November 7, 2021

Lesbia Vent Dumois, who is one of the most restless and active artists in the entire panorama of Cuban culture (those who know her know this is not an exaggerated statement), celebrates her birthday this Saturday.

Source: CubaSi

November 7, 2021

Choral director and music producer, Beatriz Corona, received on Monday, November 1st the Ibermúsicas Prize for Choral Composition, thus becoming the first woman to merit this award.

Source: Granma

November 6, 2021

A documentary about the legendary Cuban singer Omara Portuondo will have its world premiere during the New York documentary festival, which will take place from November 10-28.

Source: Cubasi

November 6, 2021

One of Cuba's great soneros has just passed: the renowned performer Antonio (Tony) Guzmán, director of the Tony Guzmán Orchestra and his Poder Latino of Villa Clara, died at the age of 58.

Source: Vanguardia, Cubitanow

November 5, 2021

CNN en Español announced the launch of the new digital space LibreXpresión, presented by the renowned Cuban writer and poet Wendy Guerra, who joined the network in September as a contributor.

Source: CNN en español

November 5, 2021

Cuban painter Carlos Guzmán is impressed by the receding of water on the capital's coastline during low tide, which inspired his exhibition 'Where the Sea Retreats', open since late October on a central Panamanian avenue.

Source: Cubasi

November 4, 2021

Three Cuban scientists were elected as members of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), bringing the number of academics from the Island in that prestigious institution to eight.

Source: OnCubaNews

November 4, 2021

The extraordinary Cuban writer Pablo Armando Fernández died on the night of November 3rd, a man who not only excelled through his literary work in poetry and the novel, but also through his patriotic and revolutionary attitude.

Source: Cubadebate, CubaSi, Uneac

November 3, 2021

The "Drum Major" of the best team in the history of the Santiago Wasps.

Source: DimeCuba

November 3, 2021

Ana de Armas's meteoric rise to stardom could continue with the highly anticipated 'John Wick' spin-off, titled 'Ballerina'.

Source: Fotogramas

November 2, 2021

The Cuban Javier Sotomayor, the greatest high jumper in history, inaugurated last Thursday night a private business in his former residence in the exclusive Havana neighborhood of Miramar, the Bar-Restaurant 2.

Source: France24

November 2, 2021

In 2017, when Yenisel Valdés Fuentes, known in Cuba and abroad as "Yeny, from Los Van Van", left that celebrated group, much of the audience in the largest of the Antilles felt her departure.

Source: Cubalite

November 1, 2021

The Embassy of Norway in Cuba announced the 11 winning projects of the Norwegian Fund for Cuban Cinema this year, among which are the well-known filmmaker Carlos Lechuga and playwright and opposition activist Yunior García.

Source: OnCubaNews

November 1, 2021

Cuban singer Alfredito Rodríguez will turn 70 years old at the end of this November and will celebrate it by singing his greatest hits.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

October 31, 2021

Josefina de la Caridad Vidal Ferreiro, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, was appointed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its website.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 31, 2021

The news is confirmed this Saturday through social media where they say goodbye to Hilda Moré, the daughter of legendary Cuban musician Benny Moré.

Source: Cubanoticias360

October 30, 2021

The Cuban actor from 'Fresa y chocolate', 'Guantanamera', 'Cachito' and 'Bámbola' brings out his most eccentric side in his new work in Spain, the series 'Doctor Portuondo', under the direction of Carlo Padial In the series Doctor Portuondo, Jorge Perugorría (Havana, 1965), unforgettable protagonist of Fresa y chocolate, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, of Cachito, by Enrique Urbizu or of Una rosa de Francia, by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, dances, smokes, wears wool vests with impossible patterns and shouts.

Source: Cinemanía

October 30, 2021

Gilberto Aldanás passed away on October 28 in Havana, at the age of 95.

Source: Granma

October 29, 2021

The Cuban Raidel Martínez threw a perfect relief outing this Tuesday in the Chunichi Dragons' 4-0 victory over the Hanshin Tigers at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya.

Source: Jit

October 29, 2021

The revolutionary combatant Alejandro Ferrás Pellicer died on the night of October 22, 2021 in La Habana, at the age of 99, due to multiple organ failure.

Source: Granma

October 28, 2021

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) awarded the outstanding athlete performance prize to Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López, who won his fourth Olympic gold medal in Tokyo 2020.

Source: 5 de septiembre

October 28, 2021

Anyone would have wanted him eternal for being who he was, one of the indispensable characters in Havana's fables, and in some way he had already conquered eternity.

Source: Granma

October 27, 2021

Cimafunk is back in the news! This time his "nourishment" is for millions of Cubans celebrating his inclusion in YouTube's Black Voices program.

Source: Cubatel