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January 24, 2022

The Cuban national team striker, Onel Hernández, scored his first goal with Birmingham FC of the Football League Championship, England's second division.

Source: Jit

January 23, 2022

Renowned actress Corina Mestre has been recognized with the 2022 National Theater Prize, reported the National Council of Performing Arts (CNAE).

Source: Cubadebate

January 23, 2022

Ramón Rives Amador, popularly known as Mongo Rives, passed away on Friday, January 21 at the age of 92.

Source: Granma

January 21, 2022

The legendary volleyball player Mireya Luis Hernández, who was a vital part of Cuba's teams that won gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games, has received privileged Dominican nationality in recognition of her sporting merits recognized worldwide and at the continental level.

Source: Diario Libre

January 21, 2022

The Chaplin cinema hosted the premiere of the documentary "That's Life Octavio", an audiovisual that under the direction of actor Patricio Wood approaches the professional life of the renowned Cuban filmmaker.

Source: Cubarte

January 20, 2022

Cuban singer and songwriter Liuba María Hevia is preparing her next acoustic concert for today, Para volverte a ver, before the audience at the Pequeño Teatro Gran Vía in the capital of Spain.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

January 20, 2022

Cuban musician and humorist Alejandro García Villalón, better known as Virulo, returns to Mexico with the show Chronicles of the Pandemic, which will offer two unique performances on January 21 and 22 at Teatro Bar El Vicio.

Source: Cartelera de Teatro

January 19, 2022

Cuban actress Beatriz Valdés, better known on the island as "La Bella del Alhambra," from the film of the same name that she starred in in 1989, will be the surprising star of Cuban singer Leoni Torres' upcoming music video.

Source: ADN Cuba

January 19, 2022

With the performances of Cuban musician Ignacio "Nachito" Herrera, resident in the United States, and maestro Bobby Carcasés, the 37th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival was officially inaugurated in this capital.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

January 18, 2022

It is titled Confluencias de pianos and from the promotional poster itself the diversity jumps out at first glance.

Source: CubaSi

January 18, 2022

Renowned former Cuban baseball player Lázaro Ramón Gonzalo Naranjo, better known as Choly Naranjo, passed away on January 13th in the city of Miami, Florida, at the age of 88.

Source: Asere

January 17, 2022

Percussionist Oliver Valdés will present his first solo recording production to the public, titled Nasobuco, in a concert sponsored by the Centro Nacional de Música Popular, during the upcoming edition of the Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza.

Source: Cubarte

January 17, 2022

The prominent Cuban researcher, Gilberto Silva Taboada, passed away on January 16, 2022.

Source: Granma, Cubadebate

January 16, 2022

Cuban-Spanish artist Chanel Terrero is fighting for a spot to represent Spain at Eurovision 2022, at Benidorm Fest, where she will demonstrate her talent on the Alicante stage.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

January 16, 2022

Manuel de la C.

Source: Cubadebate

January 15, 2022

Cuban actor William Levy has been trending these days since the new version of "Café con aroma de mujer" premiered on Netflix.

Source: Cubanoticias360

January 15, 2022

The Cuban Volleyball Federation expressed its condolences on Thursday for the death of former player Raúl Vilches, a victim of cancer.

Source: Cubadebate

January 14, 2022

The highest honors of the Ibero-American Youth Orchestras Program in its Young Group Competition and Young Performer of the Year Award 2021 were achieved by Cuban artists.

Source: Radio Enciclopedia

January 14, 2022

Roberto "Bobby" Batista Fernández, one of the nine children of Fulgencio Batista, passed away on January 12, 2022 in Madrid at the age of 74.

Source: OnCubaNews

January 13, 2022

We would not be reckless in pointing out that 2022 has started off well for Cuban actress María Isabel Díaz.

Source: Cubanoticias360

January 13, 2022

The text "Alicia and the Wonders of Ballet.

Source: CubaSi, Radio Reloj

January 12, 2022

Four of the main figures in athletics in Cuba, including Olympic silver medalist in long jump Juan Miguel Echevarría, will represent the Spanish club CA Playas de Castellón in the upcoming athletic season, according to the announcement by that institution.

Source: OnCubaNews

January 12, 2022

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Source: Granma

January 11, 2022

Cuban Marlies Mejías announced that she will race in the Challenger Escambray Mountain Bike scheduled for the 21st to 23rd of this month in the impressive setting of those mountain ranges in the province of Sancti Spíritus.

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January 11, 2022

"I evoked it in dreams, and love itself sought me out, came near, reached me, united me forever to its TIME," wrote singer Ivette Cepeda on her Facebook profile to announce the premiere of the video for her recent song Evocaciones, a song written by Polito Ibáñez.

Source: Cubadebate

January 10, 2022

José María Vitier declared himself blessed to be a musician on the island of music.

Source: Granma

January 10, 2022

Some details about Calendario, the recent premiere on the Cubavisión channel, have already been announced.

Source: TV Cubana

January 8, 2022

César Prieto, a baseball player from Cienfuegos who left in May the team that would participate in the Baseball Pre-Olympic in Florida, United States, will sign with the Baltimore Orioles when the next international signing period begins on January 15.

Source: ADN Cuba

January 8, 2022

The National Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 was awarded on January 6th to Doctor in Economic Sciences, Full Professor and Professor Emeritus, José Luis Rodríguez García.

Source: Cubadebate

January 7, 2022

With the objective of highlighting the intense and fruitful teaching and research activity that Professor Alberto Juan Dorta Contreras developed in the different contexts where he worked, this activity will emphasize his contribution to science through stories narrated by his students and colleagues in first person, from their personal experiences, as a tribute to one who was in life a scientist devoted to the formation of new researchers and who passed away in 2021 as a consequence of COVID-19.

Source: Infomed

January 7, 2022

Writer and narrator Julio Travieso Serrano received this Thursday the 2021 National Prize for Literature.

Source: Cubadebate

January 6, 2022

Cuban presenter José Carlos Pérez Córdoba, popularly known as Carlucho, announced the re-edition in Miami of the beloved humorous television program from Cuban television "Kicking the Can," which was very popular on the island during the years it was on air, from 1995 to 2001.

Source: Cibercuba

January 6, 2022

Alejandro García, Virulo, confessed it to the press during the presentation of the phonogram "Pandemic Chronicles", produced by the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM) and which, many years from now, will allow us to revisit these times of pandemic from multiple perspectives, critical, hopeful and, of course, very amusing, just as Cubans have always been.

Source: CubaSi

January 5, 2022

María Cristina, a work by Julio César García, a Cuban creator whose studio is based in Matanzas, is included among the pieces that will be part of an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Soho Photo Gallery, an organization that promotes artistic photography in the American city of New York.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

January 5, 2022

"The grandfather of Rap", the director of Cubanos en la Red, the defender of the environment, of the "Pachamama", Osmel Francis Turner passed away in Havana.

Source: Cubadebate, Cibercuba

January 4, 2022

Luisa Georgina Cabrera Parada, Gina Cabrera to the people of Cuba and to the world, was one of the founders of television on the island.

Source: CMHW, Cubadebate

January 4, 2022

Leyanis Pérez, from Pinar del Río, is the most promising revelation of the year that is just ending and one of the greatest talents in contemporary Cuban athletics.

Source: Cubahora

January 3, 2022

American Grandmaster of Cuban origin Leinier Domínguez ranked fifteenth in the first 2022 rating list, according to the official website of the International Chess Federation.

Source: Cibercuba

January 3, 2022

From the most unusual spaces for dance within the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC) starred in the gala that is annually offered in tribute to the revolutionary triumph of 1959.

Source: Cubadebate

January 2, 2022

The prestigious Forbes magazine published its traditional list of the most influential people of the year, in which each of those selected "has played some key role in Spanish politics, economy or society" or even "sometimes in all of them at once", and it is Cuban actress Ana de Armas who heads that ranking.

Source: Asere

January 2, 2022

The emblematic Cuban musician based in Miami, Willy Chirino, announced an upcoming concert together with popular singer Leoni Torres in Florida.

Source: ADN Cuba

January 1, 2022

On Thursday, December 30, it was announced that José María Vitier García-Marruz was selected by a jury presided over by maestro and National Music Prize winner Digna Guerra, and also made up of fellow national prize winners Joaquín Betancourt, Guido López-Gavilán and Edesio Alejando, and musicologist Laura Vilar, director of Cidmuc (Center for Research and Development of Cuban Music), awarding him the 2021 National Music Prize.

Source: Granma

January 1, 2022

The outstanding Cuban baseball players Armando Capiró and Rogelio García are among the new inductees to the Palmar de Junco Hall of Fame, located in the iconic baseball stadium of the same name, in the western province of Matanzas.

Source: OncubaNews

December 31, 2021

The Americas branch of the International Association of Sports Press recognized Jesús G.

Source: Juventud Rebelde

December 31, 2021

Cuban pitcher Odrisamer Despaigne will be with the KT Wiz in the upcoming season of the Korean Professional Baseball League, after receiving a new contract for the sum of 1.

Source: Swing Completo

December 30, 2021

The researcher Gilberto Silva Taboada (Havana, November 21, 1927), received on this December 28th, at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, the National Prize for Cultural Heritage for his life's work, 2021, which was awarded to him by the National Council for Cultural Heritage (CNPC), of the Ministry of Culture.

Source: Granma

December 30, 2021

On December 27th, Brigadier General of the Reserve Humberto Francis Pardo passed away in Havana at the age of 76, who for three decades was head of the Personal Security Directorate of the Ministry of Interior, with a brilliant service record in protecting the physical integrity of Cuba's main leaders.

Source: Cubadebate

December 29, 2021

The play "Huevos rotos" is the new project that will occupy actors Susana Pérez and Albertico Pujol at the beginning of 2022.

Source: Cubanoticias360

December 29, 2021

The proclamation this Tuesday of Alberto Lescay Merencio as the recipient of the National Prize for Plastic Arts 2021 honored a creator fully committed to the development and destiny of contemporary Cuban culture, traits that are revealed at the highest level in both his sculptural work and painting.

Source: Granma

December 27, 2021

In this sixth induction, the Electoral Group chose outfielder Antonio "Haitiano" González as the player from before 1961, while from the post-1962 era the selection fell on pitcher Rogelio García and also outfielder Armando Capiró.

Source: Prensa Latina