September 7, 2021
Cuban sprinter Omara Durand was elected member of the Paralympic Athletes Committee, as announced by the entity during the closing ceremony of the event in Tokyo.
Source: Prensa Latina
September 6, 2021
The first ballerina and director of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), Viengsay Valdés, received last Saturday the Positano Dance Prize Léonide Massine, awarded in Italy.
Source: Cubadebate
September 6, 2021
The Cuban Arlenis Sierra (A.
Source: CubaSi
September 5, 2021
The best chess player born in Cuba since the legendary Capablanca, Leinier Domínguez, will soon participate in the Champions Showdown of chess 960 or random chess, in an event that will once again see retired former world champion Garry Kasparov compete.
Source: Cubadebate
September 5, 2021
Cuban writer Evelio Traba was distinguished with the Juan Alcaide International Poetry Award for his work Un traspatio de malos vecinos, the jury announced.
Source: Prensa Latina
September 4, 2021
The unbeatable Omara Durand stopped the clocks at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium by setting a world record for profound visual impairment in the 200-meter dash, to repeat her Rio de Janeiro title, win her third gold medal of this summer competition, and her eighth in the history of her participation in these competitions.
Source: Cubadebate
September 4, 2021
The Acosta Danza company mourned the death of teacher Rosa Elena Álvarez, a recognized figure in ballet education in Cuba and the founding director of the academy of the same name.
Source: Prensa Latina
September 3, 2021
Enrique Molina, one of the artists who, through his iconic characters in the Cuban scene, won not only the National Television Prize 2020, but what is most important for a creator, the applause of the public that admires and respects him, has died in the early morning hours of this Friday due to complications derived from COVID-19.
Source: Cubadebate
September 3, 2021
Like a bolt of lightning, Santiago native Omara Durand crossed the finish line hand in hand with her guide Yuniol Kindelán in the final of the 100 meters flat T12 category of these multi-sport games, to re-claim her crown from Rio de Janeiro in this distance, hang her second gold medal on her chest in this summer event, and the seventh in her tremendous Paralympic history.
Source: Cubadebate
September 1, 2021
The Cuban Institute of Music reported that Adalberto Álvarez's death occurred in the early morning of September first after several days of being treated at the Instituto Pedro Kourí for multiple organ dysfunction, as a result of pneumonia derived from Covid-19.
Source: Cubadebate
September 1, 2021
Considered one of Cuba's most virtuoso musicians, Alain Pérez shows his excitement and desire to be able to meet up with the public again on September 2nd in Barcelona, after more than a year and a half of pandemic, and to once again "reach people, to see their faces, to have them sing with me".
Source: EFE
August 31, 2021
The sprinter Omara Durand ran faster than anyone to proclaim herself champion of the 400 meters flat in the T12 category (profound visual impairment) and thus give Cuba its second gold medal of these sixteenth Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 and the number 41 in its history at these summer events.
Source: Cubadebate
August 31, 2021
Cuban singer-songwriter Waldo Mendoza revealed that he and his wife are recovering from coronavirus after a few days dealing with the disease and the fear it generates to suffer from it.
Source: Cibercuba
August 30, 2021
On a fruitful day, the Cuban delegation inaugurated its medal count at these sixteenth Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020, in a complex scenario where our athletes had to give their maximum effort and shatter their own personal records to achieve it.
Source: Cubadebate
August 30, 2021
The National Ballet of Cuba regretted the death of Julio Castaño, who was a principal dancer and, later, set designer and costume designer for the company.
Source: Cubadebate
August 29, 2021
With deep sorrow, the Radio Pinareña family learned of the death of the dean of broadcasting in Pinar del Río, the 2008 National Radio Award winner, Jesús Benítez Rubio.
Source: Granma y Cubadebate
August 29, 2021
The Cuban Yaimé Pérez won the silver medal today in the discus throw, corresponding to the Diamond League held in Paris, where Croatian Sandra Perkovic won with a throw of 66.
Source: Cubadebate
August 28, 2021
Musicians from Cuba are preparing an album about Pancho Alonso, a phonogram recognized by its creators as the greatest tribute made to that notorious representative of bolero, guaracha, son and pilón in the country.
Source: CubaSi
August 28, 2021
The Cuban dental community deeply regrets the physical passing of the illustrious and beloved Dr.
Source: Infomed
August 27, 2021
The debut of Grandmaster Leinier Domínguez in the Sinquefield Cup, the strongest event of the Grand Chess Tour, was excellent.
Source: Columna Deportiva
August 27, 2021
In the early morning hours of Thursday, August 26, 2021, Dr.
Source: Infomed
August 26, 2021
The writer, journalist, screenwriter, and Cuban literary critic Leonardo Padura, who is in Huelva for his participation in the Cycle of cultural encounters between Spain and Cuba 'CubaCultura', organized by Harina de Otro Costal with the sponsorship of the Provincial Council, visited on Tuesday emblematic places in the province such as the Muelle de las Carabelas, the Monastery of La Rábida, the UNIA headquarters, and, already in Moguer, the Zenobia-Juan Ramón Jiménez House Museum and the Monastery of Santa Clara.
Source: Infobae
August 26, 2021
The death on August 19th in Santiago de Cuba of intellectual Marino Wilson Jay, at 75 years of age and a victim of COVID-19, mourns this city and constitutes a significant loss for local and national culture.
Source: Sierra Maestra
August 25, 2021
The Cuban Leuris Pupo has been officially invited to the President's Cup for Pistol and Rifle Shooting, scheduled for November 3-10 in Krakow, Poland.
Source: Cubadebate
August 25, 2021
Last August 18th, the beloved and admired Professor Dr.
Source: Infomed
August 24, 2021
Aime Calle Cabrera is the first Cuban woman aspiring to a seat in Canada's Federal Parliament.
Source: DimeCuba
August 24, 2021
The people of Holguín said goodbye on August 21st to soprano María Dolores Rodríguez Cabrera, leading figure and general director of the Teatro Lírico Rodrigo Prats in Holguín, who died as a result of COVID-19.
Source: Cubadebate
August 23, 2021
After confirming the delicate health condition of musician Adalberto Álvarez and actor Enrique Molina, many Cuban followers and artists have asked for the health of both.
Source: Cubatel
August 23, 2021
Actors Omar Franco and Irela Bravo, who play two popular characters in the humorous program Vivir del Cuento, are "visiting" Miami where they have met with friends, family, and admirers of both their careers and the popular program.
Source: Cubanoticias 360
August 22, 2021
This Saturday, August 21st, after several days hospitalized due to COVID-19, José Luis Estrada Betancourt, head of the Culture Section of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde, passed away.
Source: Juventud Rebelde, Cubadebate
August 22, 2021
Since Víctor Víctor Mesa was demoted to the high Class A level of the Miami Marlins, his offense has rebounded.
Source: Swing Completo
August 21, 2021
The Cuban shot putter Juan Carley Vázquez needed to reach the sixth and final attempt to win a much-savored gold medal.
Source: Cubadebate
August 21, 2021
Once again the covid-19 pandemic cloaks Cuban immunology in mourning with the death of Professor Alberto Juan Dorta Contreras on August 20.
Source: Infomed, Inmunologia-Infomed
August 20, 2021
The Cuban-American Leinier Domínguez drew with the number two in the world, Italian-American Fabiano Caruana, and is part of the group leading the prestigious Sinquefield Cup Chess Tournament, which will be played until August 26 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Source: Cibercuba
August 20, 2021
Cuban lyrical art is in mourning.
Source: Cubarte
August 19, 2021
Cuban Olympic champions Mijaín López and Luis Alberto Orta lead their respective weight categories today and head Latin America in the ranking of the United World Wrestling (UWW).
Source: Diario Colatino
August 19, 2021
The Cuban Society of Gastroenterology has informed of the death of Dr.
Source: Infomed
August 18, 2021
The single will be available starting August 20th on digital platforms and is part of a unique archive that captures the sound of the singer-songwriter's most exuberant era, and showcases one of his most unusual facets.
Source: El Espectador
August 18, 2021
On August 16th, Cuban medicine loses another of its devoted sons.
Source: Granma
August 17, 2021
In the early morning of this August 16th, an icon of Santiago and Cuban cuisine passed away at 59 years of age: Jorge Bringas, an international chef and professor to several generations of cooks," said on Facebook Cuscó Tarradel, correspondent for the National Television News in Santiago.
Source: UniVista TV
August 17, 2021
Since she was a young girl fresh out of the classrooms of the University of Oriente, Miozotis Fabelo Pinares has dedicated her youth and the best of her life to thinking about how to do better journalism, and to building it by honoring those who create good human work and criticizing those who choose otherwise.
Source: Cubadebate
August 16, 2021
Leoni Torres continues full steam ahead with his solo career and this weekend, he has given us a new music video.
Source: Noticias 360.com
August 16, 2021
Hermes Moreno, director of Editorial Nuevo Milenio, passed away in Havana in the early morning of August 14 as a victim of COVID-19.
Source: Prensa Latina
August 15, 2021
In Saturday's bantamweight title fight for the World Boxing Organization, it would not be incorrect to suggest that defending champion John Riel Casimero had the luck of retaining his belt against former unified 122-pound champion Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Source: Cubacute
August 15, 2021
Cuban nephrology is in mourning this Saturday for the death at age 87 of Doctor in Medical Sciences Reynaldo Mañalich Comas, Specialist of Second Degree in Nephrology as a result of complications from COVID-19.
Source: Cubitanow
August 14, 2021
The young Cuban pianist Rodrigo García Ameneiro won the Grand Prize of the Rocky Mountain Music Competition, alongside Polish violinist Rozalia Bryla.
Source: OnCubaNews
August 14, 2021
Cuban artists from the group Gente de Zona and singer Gloria Estefan have been nominated for the Billboard Latin Awards, which will hold their ceremony on September 23rd at the Watsco Center of the University of Miami.
Source: ADN Cuba
August 13, 2021
In the successful artistic career of Verónica Lynn, doña Teresa Guzmán, from the Cuban telenovela Sol de Batey, has been one of her most diabolical characters.
Source: La Jiribilla
August 13, 2021
Luna Manzanares knows how to touch her audience's sensibilities.
Source: La Jiribilla
August 12, 2021
After giving successful concerts in Europe, the Cuban musician will perform in the United States in August and September.
Source: Suenacubano
