April 6, 2021
Although Alejo Carpentier always claimed to have been born on Maloja Street, in Old Havana, researchers from the Cuban foundation that bears his name discovered the certificate that declares Switzerland as his birthplace.
Source: Cubadebate
April 5, 2021
Cuban baseball player José "Pito" Abreu, Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the past season, hit his first Grand Slam of the Major League season in a game between his team, the Chicago White Sox, against the Los Angeles Angels.
Source: Asere
April 5, 2021
Cuban actress Livia Brito has been a trending topic in recent weeks, following the start of filming for the Televisa telenovela, "La Desalmada".
Source: ADN Cuba
April 4, 2021
Cuban actor Jorge Perugorría said in an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC that "it is proven that the prosperity of the Cuban people depends on whether the United States lifts the blockade" on the Island.
Source: Diario de Cuba
April 4, 2021
His name is familiar to us.
Source: Cubatel
April 3, 2021
Tomás Romay passed away 172 years ago on this March 30th, but we Cubans keep him very present in these times of pandemic.
Source: Granma
April 3, 2021
THE CUBAN Robertlandy Simón does not let up in each outing on the court and with another effective performance maintained his leadership in the sweeping victory of Lube Civitanova over Trentino to tie 1-1 the semifinal playoff of the Italian Volleyball Superliga.
Source: Jit
April 2, 2021
The playwright and writer Eugenio Hernández, author of essential works in Cuba's theatrical scene, received today the National Literature Prize 2020 awarded by the Cuban Book Institute.
Source: Prensa Latina
April 2, 2021
The 107th anniversary of the birth of writer, painter, and folklorist Samuel Feijóo was commemorated today in this city in the center of the country, on a date coinciding with Cuban Book Day.
Source: Prensa Latina
April 1, 2021
The Cuban Jasiel Rivero will be in the Final 8 of the Basketball Champions League of Europe with the Spanish club Hereda San Pablo Burgos, champion of the previous season.
Source: Cubasi
April 1, 2021
Another significant loss has been registered in Cuban music in recent days: pianist and professor Karelia Escalante.
Source: Granma
March 31, 2021
Singer-songwriter Raúl Paz presented this Tuesday his most recent album El Puente, an intimate and minimalist venture, but enriched by the stories that include the characters from the upcoming Cuban telenovela on air, Vuelve a mirar.
Source: CubaSi
March 31, 2021
Interpreters from various nations and musical styles are working today on a version of the song Pasaba por aquí, by Spanish musician Luis Eduardo Aute, on the occasion of the first anniversary of his death.
Source: Prensa Latina
March 30, 2021
The Cuban Institute of Music explained in a note that: pianists Marcos Madrigal, from Cuba, and Alessandro Stella, from Italy, are recording in Paris a unique album with a repertoire unknown to the world, under the French record label Artalinna.
Source: CubaSi
March 30, 2021
The Cuban artist Daymé Arocena and her husband Pablo Dewin Reyes are currently preparing the experimental documentary short film, Sunlight Around the Corner: The Golden Sparrow, which "will very soon be available at festivals, cinemas and galleries," she assures in her Facebook profile.
Source: Suena Cubano
March 29, 2021
With his home run in the Softbank Hawks' comeback against the Chiba Lotte Marines, Alfredo Despaigne took the lead among Cuban home run hitters in the Land of the Rising Sun and continues to add to his story and legend in Cuban Baseball of all time.
Source: Swing Completo
March 29, 2021
Considered a musical testimony of Cuba, the songs of the emblematic Cuban performer Ñico Saquito return today to the sound staff of the island with the production of a new album.
Source: Prensa Latina
March 28, 2021
Jorge Perugorría has not stopped working during these times when work is sorely missed.
Source: Vistar Magazine
March 28, 2021
"Breaking the silence seen from a distance reconnects me today with all of you, and I'm very grateful for the comments and posts from everyone and the wonderful opportunity that Rolando Chiong and Legna Pérez offered me to step into the shoes of this character from the profound tragedy of his life story and his courage to face it and seek dignified solutions, a true privilege.
Source: Cubadebate
March 27, 2021
«My little mare, of course, / I take her to all the fairs / because my little mare is serious, / respectful like me.
Source: Granma
March 27, 2021
He looks like a Don Quixote, both in appearance and spirit.
Source: CubaSi
March 25, 2021
Shortly before reaching her nine decades of life and constant dedication to Cuban culture, the essayist, art critic, cultural promoter and prominent intellectual Graciella Pogolotti, received on this March 24th, from the hands of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the José Martí Order, in recognition of her magnificent contributions to the culture of our country.
Source: Cubarte
March 25, 2021
Tahimí Alvariño seems to be greatly enjoying friendship and work in a production that comes from the hand of one of the most famous Cuban singers of the moment.
Source: Cuballama
March 24, 2021
It seems like science fiction to think that one day we could vaccinate or tattoo ourselves without needles, but engineer David Fernández and his team in the Netherlands are taking steps in that direction, which is why the Cuban-born engineer has received the Prince Friso Engineering Award from the European Union.
Source: Entre la Critica.com
March 24, 2021
Student Mónica Cristina Tapia Tamayo from the Fernando Alonso National Ballet School (ENB) achieved third place in the Senior Category, awarded by the jury of the online Dance Open America competition in the United States.
Source: CubaSi
March 24, 2021
Cuban singer Israel Rojas, member of the duo Buena Fé, published on his Facebook account the lyrics of a song that celebrates the efforts of specialists from the largest of the Antilles to achieve vaccines against COVID-19 pneumonia.
Source: Cubadebate
March 21, 2021
The misadventures of a Cuban-American family during the preparations for their daughter's wedding and the father's resistance to the girl marrying the love of her life spice up the plot of Father of the Bride, a remake of the famous comedy that has been brought to the screen on two occasions and that Warner Bros.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
March 21, 2021
Cuba achieved four gold medals, one silver, and one bronze on the first day of the Grand Prix of track and field for people with disabilities in Tunisia, which awards points to the ranking qualifying for the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Source: Granma
March 19, 2021
The Cuban government banned the return to the country of a national journalist who recently completed her university studies in Costa Rica and who was stranded this Thursday (18.
Source: Deutsche Welle
March 19, 2021
It all turned out to be a scare, although Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra says they were «very difficult moments» when last Thursday, March 11, she was involved in a traffic accident while training on the outskirts of the city of Treviso, Italy.
Source: Granma
March 19, 2021
Robertlandy Simón again led his Lube Civitanova team to a second victory against Modena, achieved in four sets (23-25, 25-21, 25-20, 25-22) to advance to the Italian Volleyball Superleague semifinal.
Source: Cubadebate
March 19, 2021
The Cultural Society "José Martí" will present the Periódico Patria Award to Dr.
Source: Cubadebate
March 19, 2021
Cuban Yoshelyn Ramiro Ruiz will be part of the Panam Sports Training Commission, as confirmed by a letter signed by the president of that organization, Chilean Neven Ilic.
Source: Granma
March 19, 2021
Along the Bulevar del Alto Tajo, in the eastern part of Guadalajara, walks a 53-year-old Cuban man without a single gray hair.
Source: El Confidelcial
March 17, 2021
Comedian and theater director Alexis Valdés and singer Willy Chirino premiered last Monday "Yo soy cubano", a song that celebrates the Cuban diaspora.
Source: America TV
March 17, 2021
The Cuban Jasiel Rivero contributed 10 points today in his club Hereda San Pablo Burgos's victory with a score of 101-79 against CB Canarias, in the second phase of the Basketball Champions League, one of the highest-level tournaments in Europe.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN
March 16, 2021
The Cuban discus thrower Yaimé Pérez continues to show great form, heading into Tokyo-2020, and on this occasion threw the implement to 67.
Source: Granma
March 16, 2021
Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) celebrates the conquest of several awards in the Ballet Beyond Borders competition, held in the United States.
Source: Prensa Latina
March 15, 2021
The star of Cuban cycling, Arlenis Sierra, suffered an accident while training in Italy, which caused her several bruises on her body and face, but she has no fractures and is already recovering at home.
Source: Cubasi
March 15, 2021
Last March 13th, Doctor in Sciences, Professor Desiderio Pozo Lauzán, Honorary Member of the Cuban Society of Pediatrics and the Provincial Chapter of Havana, passed away in Havana.
Source: Infomed
March 14, 2021
The popular Cuban actress Beatriz Valdés was hospitalized last Friday in Miami due to Covid-19.
Source: ADN Cuba, Asere
March 14, 2021
Once again Casa Editora Abril mourns, as the COVID-19 pandemic has just taken the life of our beloved colleague Lucía Sanz Araujo, despite her fighting like a warrior.
Source: Cubadebate
March 13, 2021
The renowned Cuban actor Mario Balmaseda (Havana, 1941) was recognized today with the National Film Award 2021, for his versatility and exceptional trajectory, which have also earned him the National Awards for Theater (2006) and Television (2019).
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN
March 13, 2021
The motto embraced by the Cuban opposition "Patria y Vida" has occupied since this Tuesday a complete facade of the Graffiti Museum in Miami (USA), after urban artist Jel Martínez completed the mural with spray paint.
Source: El Diario.es
March 11, 2021
The Latin Institute of Music (ILM) premiered on social networks, in celebration of International Women's Day, the animated short film Tito Reacts to Alicia Alonso, a profound look that serves as a tribute to the Prima Ballerina Assoluta from the series of the well-known Mexican character.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN
March 11, 2021
Madeline Pumariega has been since January the first female president of Miami Dade College (MDC), the largest university in the United States, which annually graduates 83% of students of Hispanic origin and 12% of African Americans.
Source: Telemundo 51
March 10, 2021
The Goya Awards gala held last Saturday at the theater in Málaga -without public attendance due to coronavirus- remembered Cuban filmmaker Juan Carlos Tabío in the 'In memoriam' section, dedicated to professionals who have passed away since the previous edition.
Source: Cibercuba
March 10, 2021
Cuban midfielder Marcel Hernández scored three goals last Saturday in Alajuelense's 5-1 victory over Pérez Zeledón in the 2021 Clausura Tournament of Costa Rica's first division football.
Source: Prensa Latina
March 9, 2021
The veteran Cuban midfielder Osvaldo Alonso will continue for one more season with Minnesota United in what will be his thirteenth campaign in the Professional Soccer League (MLS) of the United States.
Source: Swiss info
March 9, 2021
One of the lead vocalists of the Karachi orchestra, the popular singer Dagoberto Planos Despaigne, passed away last week in Santiago de Cuba, at the age of 64, victim of complications from liver cirrhosis.
Source: Sierra Maestra
