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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

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