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October 27, 2021

Victim of a heart attack died this Sunday in Havana, the former ballplayer Andrés Ayón Broown, glory of Cuban sports.

Source: Cubadebate

October 26, 2021

The principal ballerina of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba Grettel Morejón starred last Sunday in a performance of the classic Paquita as a guest of the Ballet Magdeburgo and under the direction of choreographer Gonzalo Galguera, in that German city, capital of the federal region of Saxony-Anhalt.

Source: Prensa Latina

October 26, 2021

It was not silence but an ovation that bid farewell last Sunday to Alfredo Diez Nieto at the end of the funeral services at the Necrópolis de Colón.

Source: Granma

October 25, 2021

Christie's will auction the painting The Meeting, by Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, on November 11, which could reach a value of between three and four million dollars, according to the auction house.

Source: El Tiempo

October 25, 2021

Life has changed completely for Miguel Monkc in these last two years.

Source: Valencia Plaza.com

October 24, 2021

The Houston Astros left the Boston Red Sox in their wake and secured their third trip to the World Series in the last five years.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 24, 2021

Actor Juan Julio Alfonso, with a long career in television and radio in Cuba, died this Friday according to a statement released by the Artistic Agency of Performing Arts ACTUAR.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 23, 2021

Very few days ago, Mercedes Azcano Torres was celebrating the 60 years of Palante, a humorous newspaper that she directed for eleven years, and she could be seen busy, active, full of life.

Source: Juventud Rebelde, Granma

October 23, 2021

Alfredo Osorio works at Antonio Maceo Secondary School in the municipality of La Lisa, in the Cuban capital.

Source: Juventud Técnica

October 22, 2021

The Cuban orchestra Miguel Faílde presented in Matanzas the album Joyas Inéditas, which contains four unknown works by that brilliant musician, creator of the danzón, a genre considered the national dance of Cuba.

Source: CubaSi

October 22, 2021

Ten years after his first concert in Miami, Pablo performed last night at the Charles Dodge City Center, in Pembroke Pines, on the third stop of the "Días de Luz" tour across the United States.

Source: Cibercuba, Ser

October 21, 2021

This week, the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (Egrem) invites you to continue with the weekly premieres of the extraordinary album Los Herederos.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

October 21, 2021

The Cuban company Acosta Danza will break the inertia imposed by Covid-19 and is preparing today to begin its presentation season, which will soon arrive at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.

Source: Prensa Latina

October 20, 2021

The Board of Directors of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, having heard the opinion of the Board of Directors of Cuban Television, approved the selection of actor Manuel Porto Sánchez and Television director Danylo Sirio López for the National Radio and Television Award 2021.

Source: Portal de la Televisión Cubana

October 20, 2021

Writers and artists from Cuba, along with cultural workers and the people, honored the eternal Giselle, Alicia Alonso, on the second anniversary of her death.

Source: Prensa Latina

October 19, 2021

Cimafunk made a luxurious debut with his album "El Alimento," with which he sealed a tremendous concert in Miami.

Source: Periodico Cubano

October 19, 2021

Ivette Cepeda and Reflexión continue the launch of their new album, La Rosa de Jericó, with the presentation of the song Me va la vida en ello, a composition by Luis Eduardo Aute, performed together with the Gypsy group Los Yakis, from Spain.

Source: Cubadebate

October 18, 2021

The Cuban-American Grandmaster Leinier Domínguez achieved his ninth draw on the tenth and penultimate round of the US Chess Championship, keeping him undefeated one day before the tournament closes.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 18, 2021

Brigadier General of the Reserve Manuel de Jesús Rey Soberón passed away on Friday, October 15th due to COVID-19, according to an announcement made by the Cuban National Television News NTV.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 17, 2021

Singer Leoni Torres, one of the most popular Cuban musicians today, has been in the city of Miami for several weeks, where he decided to establish himself "for an extended period" to continue his successful career.

Source: Cubanoticias360

October 17, 2021

The Cuban essayist and professor Emilio Ichikawa Morín passed away on the morning of October 11, 2021 in Miami, at the age of 59, from complications derived from COVID-19, after remaining hospitalized for several weeks in intensive care.

Source: Cibercuba

October 16, 2021

The Cuban actor, Abel Rodríguez, ex-partner of Edith Massola and father of young presenter Paula Massola, died in the early morning of October 15 in the city of Miami where he had been living for years.

Source: Cubacute, Directorio Cubano

October 16, 2021

For the prestigious intellectual Alejo Carpentier, there are two types of popular music that conquered the planet in the past century: American jazz and Cuban music.

Source: Granma

October 15, 2021

The legendary Cuban high jumper, Javier Sotomayor, celebrates two important dates this month: his birthday, on October 13th and the 19th, the moment of his induction into the Central American Athletics Hall of Fame.

Source: Cubadebate

October 15, 2021

Yulia Clark Feoklistova, a professor at the University of Guantánamo (UG), promoted the generalization of techniques for the diagnosis of Wilson's Disease (WD), which is transmitted through autosomal recessive inheritance and is usually fatal before age 50.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 14, 2021

The executive, former athlete and Cuban Seventh Dan Iván Fernández Quirós was elected member of the Executive Council of the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU), where he will represent the Caribbean for the 2021-2025 period.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 14, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the composition of its new Scientific Advisory Group on the Origin of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), in which Cuban virologist María Guadalupe Guzmán, along with 25 other experts, will have the mission of continuing to investigate how COVID-19 emerged, among other diseases.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 13, 2021

Cuban singers Willy Chirino and Leoni Torres will join together during Chirino's concert in Miami next October 30th.

Source: ADN Cuba

October 13, 2021

# Cuban Baseball's Tragedy: The Fall of Oscar Macías There are not many stories within Cuban baseball capable of surpassing in tragedy and sorrow the one related to the protagonist of this piece, a person who went from one extreme to another in his life and about whom today practically no news exists of his real whereabouts.

Source: Swing Completo

October 12, 2021

The film tells an alternate reality, where Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man Coyula has been spending months in which, every Sunday, he invites interested viewers to see a very peculiar production within current Cuban cinema.

Source: 14 y medio

October 12, 2021

The month of October marks Cuban history with unforgettable events due to their significance.

Source: Infomed

October 11, 2021

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra has signed a two-year contract (2022-2023) with the prestigious Movistar club from Spain, one of nine with the maximum category of the UCI Women's World Team elite.

Source: CubaSi

October 11, 2021

The Young Talents Award for Women in Science in its 15th edition, awarded by Unesco and the French company L'Oréal, was given to Cuban scientist Gladys Gutiérrez-Bugallo, a researcher at IPK, it was learned this Thursday.

Source: Cubainformacion

October 10, 2021

No one in this land, who breathes the air of this land, feels estranged from what Dionisio de Jesús Valdés, Chucho, represents in Cuban musical culture.

Source: Granma, OnCubaNews

October 10, 2021

Last October 7, 2021, the unfortunate news of the death of the distinguished basketball player and coach Franklin Standard Johnson was made public.

Source: Granma, Play off Magazine

October 9, 2021

The right-handed pitcher he outsmarted and the left-handed one he stole home on.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 9, 2021

A seminar honoring the centennial of the renowned master of Cuban modern dance, Ramiro Guerra, closes this October 8th, after sessions held online.

Source: Granma

October 8, 2021

During Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated in the United States, Cuban Camila Cabello has become the first Latina woman to receive a diamond record for a single.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 8, 2021

The most recent success of Alexander Abreu and Havana D'Primera bears the name of an important deity in Afro-Cuban religion, "Azowano", also known as Babalú Ayé or San Lázaro.

Source: Cibercuba

October 7, 2021

Singer-songwriter Liuba María Hevia unveiled her new projects in collaboration with the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic).

Source: OnCubaNews

October 7, 2021

The Grand Masters Lázaro Bruzón and Leinier Domínguez played their respective opening matches in the 2021 edition of the United States Chess Championship, which began with the presence of a dozen players gathered in the already traditional venue of San Luis.

Source: Cibercuba

October 6, 2021

Her results make her the best female cyclist of all time in Cuba in both sexes.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 6, 2021

"Epicentro", a new album that brings together for the first time a dozen Cuban urban music artists, including the famous duo Gente de Zona, seeks to take the genre "to a more international sound" by mixing afrobeat with reggaeton and tropical pop, according to its producer, Cuban Dale Pututi.

Source: Los Angeles TImes

October 5, 2021

Yulieski Gurriel is making history in the MLB.

Source: Cubatel

October 5, 2021

Journalist Juan Antonio Borrego Díaz passed away from complications associated with COVID-19.

Source: Cubadebate

October 4, 2021

Marta Rojas, Cuban writer and journalist, passed away yesterday Sunday, October 3rd as a result of a heart attack.

Source: Cubadebate

October 4, 2021

Among cries of "Long Live Cuba," demands for the United States to end the blockade, and a tribute to Spanish singer-songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute, Cuban trovador Silvio Rodríguez performed yesterday a concert before a massive audience at the Wizink Center in Madrid.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 3, 2021

The renowned Cuban doctors Ricardo González Menéndez and Héctor Terry Molinet died as a result of complications from contracting coronavirus in Cuba.

Source: Cibercuba, Infomed

October 3, 2021

In the context of the recently completed 110th anniversary of the birth of the great Ignacio Villa, Bola de Nieve, a tribute CD is being produced in Cuba, directed by young saxophonist Michel Herrera, under the label of the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM).

Source: Cubadebate

October 2, 2021

Cuban singer Erick Iglesias Rodríguez, known artistically as Cimafunk, announced on his social media the dates for his upcoming tour "El Alimento" through various cities in the United States and Europe.

Source: Asere