News

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

October 2, 2021

Cuban comedian and host Alexis Valdés shared a photograph alongside American actors Woody Harrelson and Judy Greer, with whom he is working on a series produced by HBO.

Source: Periodico Cubano

October 1, 2021

CNN en Español announces that Cuban writer and poet Wendy Guerra is joining the network as a contributor and analyst, as well as creator of alternative content for digital and linear platforms.

Source: CNN en español

October 1, 2021

The Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine reports the death, on September 29, 2021, of the teacher of teachers Dr.

Source: Infomed

September 30, 2021

Cuban vocalist Eme Alfonso starred in the Tiny Desk Home musical initiative, which celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, with a series of concerts from home and connects renowned artists from Latin America.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

September 30, 2021

The Cuban specialist in infectious diseases María Guadalupe Guzmán obtained the UNESCO award Women in Science in its 2022 edition for her research on dengue, the multilateral organization reported this Thursday.

Source: Cubaminrex

September 29, 2021

When María del Mar Bonet sang Amor in a square in the Barcelona neighborhood of Nou Barris last Sunday, the composer of the music, at the piano, must have evoked once again in a very special way the poet, his father Cintio Vitier, to whom all of Cuba paid honors the day before for the centenary of his birth.

Source: Granma

September 29, 2021

Cuban singer Omara Portuondo announced the nomination for Best Tropical Song at the 2021 Latin Grammys for the song Bolero a la Vida that she sings together with Gaby Moreno.

Source: Cubasi

September 28, 2021

The National Council of the Performing Arts informed through its page on the social network Facebook that the renowned Cuban actor Manuel Porto passed away today, September 28, as a consequence of COVID.

Source: Cubarte

September 28, 2021

A pleasant surprise for the authors has been the nomination of the song: 'Patria y Vida' to the Latin Grammy 2021.

Source: Cubitanow

September 27, 2021

Asley is the first case of a Cuban Olympic medalist who, without having to defect, renounces representing Cuba to do so for another nation's team.

Source: Infobae

September 27, 2021

Colonel Eladio Julián Fernández Cívico, director of the state business group GEOCUBA, died on Saturday, September 25 in Havana as a result of Covid-19, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR).

Source: Diario de Cuba

September 26, 2021

It is well known that Yulieski Gurriel, better known as "La Piña," is in full battle for the batting title, but far from the spotlight of media attention, Yulieski is co-leader of the Major Leagues in an important department that is often overlooked: sacrifice flies.

Source: Swing Completo