August 6, 2021
Last August 3rd marked the centennial of the birth of musician José Antonio Rojas, and for this occasion, various cultural institutions joined forces in order to pay tribute to this legend of Cuban culture through a day of celebrations.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN
August 5, 2021
Pedro Pablo Pichardo, born in Cuba but representing Portugal since 2019, achieved the greatest success of his sports career by becoming Olympic champion in the triple jump, this Thursday in Tokyo.
Source: France24
August 5, 2021
The Cuban film The Last Supper (1976), by filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, will be included in the Classics Out of Competition section of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, which will take place from September 1st to 11, 2021, highlighted by critic Luciano Castillo.
Source: Granma
August 4, 2021
The Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz, is remembered throughout the world.
Source: Cubatel
August 4, 2021
When Roniel Iglesias finished the fight for the gold medal, he knelt down and caressed the Olympic rings drawn on the canvas.
Source: Cubadebate
August 3, 2021
Young Cuban pianists Daniela Rivero and Eladio Hernández won first place in the Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition 2021 -in the chamber music category, group C for ages 18 and over-, in the most recent edition held digitally in the city of New York, United States.
Source: Radio Enciclopedia
August 3, 2021
A Cuban, a Venezuelan, and a Galician walk into a bar in Guadalajara.
Source: 20 minutos
August 2, 2021
Mijaín López is the best wrestler in history! Four Olympic golds is something never seen before in men's Greco-Roman wrestling.
Source: Cubadebate
August 2, 2021
When Juan Miguel Echevarría felt that his hamstring injury prevented him from jumping for the sixth time, he knelt right on the takeoff board and struck the ground with his fists.
Source: Cubadebate
August 1, 2021
When Mijaín López left the mat toward the mixed zone, he did so with a phrase on his lips: "while I'm here, he won't win".
Source: Cubadebate
August 1, 2021
COVID-19 has just taken from us at the age of 81 Ángel González González.
Source: Juventud Rebelde
July 31, 2021
Since the first images of Ana de Armas characterized as Marilyn Monroe appeared, fans have been anxious waiting for the film's premiere.
Source: Cubatel
July 31, 2021
On the afternoon of Saturday, July 24, 2021, Professor María de los Ángeles Chávez passed away, Professor Emerita of La Universidad de La Habana and Member of Merit of the Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.
Source: Universidad de La Habana, Radio Rebelde, Cibercuba
July 30, 2021
On the tatami of the sacred temple of world judo, the Nippon Budokan, Idalys Ortiz gave Cuba its second medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, after falling to local Akira Sone for the title in the super heavyweight division (over 78 kg).
Source: La Demajagua
July 30, 2021
The Cuban hammer thrower Alegna Osorio Mayarí, bronze medalist at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, died on Wednesday, July 28 after three months hospitalized following a serious accident in the training areas of the Panamerican Village in Havana del Este.
Source: Top.hoy
July 29, 2021
Cuban poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez wins the 29th Manuel Alcántara Poetry Prize in Málaga The Cuban journalist, professor, poet and translator residing in the United States has won the twenty-ninth edition of the Manuel Alcántara Poetry Prize for the poem 'Siete preposiciones de lugar', according to the ruling of the jury for this award, presided over by Álvaro García, and also composed of José Infante, Rafael Muñoz Zayas, Rosa Romojaro and María José Jiménez Tomé.
Source: Radio Habana Cuba
July 29, 2021
The Cuban Isbel Herrera del Sol, international chess arbiter, died from COVID-19.
Source: OncubaNews
July 28, 2021
After transitioning from disappointment to hope, hanging on to his Macedonian victimizer, Cuban taekwondo athlete Rafael Alba secured Cuba's first medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games by winning the bronze medal in the division of over 80 kilograms.
Source: Periódico 26
July 28, 2021
The journalist and researcher from Cienfuegos, Andrés García Suárez, who had just turned 89 years old, died this Sunday, July 26 at the Specialized Outpatient Center Héroes de Playa Girón, in the Pearl of the South, from illnesses associated with Covid-19.
Source: Granma
July 27, 2021
In the most anticipated match for Cuban volleyball fans, the teams from Poland and Italy faced off during the second day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic tournament.
Source: Swing Completo
July 27, 2021
The Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) of Cuba reported yesterday Monday the death of Reserve General Manuel Eduardo Lastres Pacheco.
Source: Radio Reloj, Radio CIudad del Mar, 5 de septiembre
July 26, 2021
Master Adolfo Roval, an outstanding figure in ballet and 2019 National Dance Prize winner, passed away in Havana at the age of 91.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN
July 26, 2021
The eldest son of Cuban baseball player Víctor Mesa has not yet managed to justify the bonus for which he signed as a professional with the Miami Marlins, but something he has made clear from day one is that while batting has been lacking, his defense is second to none.
Source: Swing Completo
July 25, 2021
The stories of jazz, piano, and Cuban music have intersected on numerous occasions, writing memorable pages in popular music of the twentieth century.
Source: El Pais
July 25, 2021
There is so much love for Carlos Acosta that a mixed program becomes something more than the sum of its parts, while Rambert's brilliant virtual beauty is full of interest.
Source: The Guardian
July 24, 2021
Cuban musicians Daymé Arocena and Pável Urkiza premiered the song «Everything for You», which sings about recent events in Cuba.
Source: Cubanoticias360
July 24, 2021
The week that is ending has been a sorrowful one for Cuban intellectual women due to the deaths of two notable figures: Nuria Nuiry and Elsa Claro.
Source: Cubaperiodistas, Bohemia
July 23, 2021
The Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, founder of the "new Cuban trova," called on Wednesday for amnesty for all "non-violent" detainees who participated in the protest demonstrations on July 11 on the island and opened an unexpected dialogue with dissident intellectuals to generate a space for debate.
Source: Tn.com.ar
July 23, 2021
The Rutas y Andares en Cuba project reveals passages from the work left by the renowned Havana historian, Eusebio Leal, who led the process of heritage recovery in the city.
Source: Cubadebate
July 22, 2021
Cuban rapper Silvito El Libre premiered his new song "Pesadilla" on YouTube this Tuesday.
Source: Periodico Cubano
July 22, 2021
On Monday, July 19, journalist Sigfredo Barros passed away, a reporter for decades at the newspaper Granma, specialized in sports topics, fundamentally baseball.
Source: Cubadebate
July 21, 2021
Watching Julio César la Cruz fight causes an incredible kind of hypnosis.
Source: Cubadebate
July 21, 2021
Lights and Spirits is a documentary about the children's theater company "La Colmenita" from Cuba, which was founded during the darkest years of the country's special period.
Source: Medios Lentos.com
July 20, 2021
The Uzbek Jakhongir Vakhidov eliminated the stellar Cuban-American Leinier Domínguez from the Chess World Cup, who paid dearly for his year and a half of inactivity in official tournaments.
Source: Cibercuba
July 20, 2021
The prominent Cuban physician Graciliano Díaz Bartolo, who was a member of several medical brigades that provided assistance abroad, died in Santiago de Cuba as a victim of COVID-19.
Source: Cubanoticias360
July 19, 2021
The popular Cuban actress María Isabel Díaz Lago thanked on her social networks the numerous donations of medicines that have been collected in Spain, where she has lived for many years, which will be sent to Cuba, a country facing a serious health crisis, worsened by coronavirus.
Source: Cibercuba
July 19, 2021
Knowing she is the second youngest athlete in Cuba's Olympic delegation in Tokyo 2020, rather than being a drawback, proves today to be an invaluable asset for table tennis player Daniela Fonseca.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 18, 2021
The multi-champion Cuban paralympic athlete Omara Durand will lead the delegation of 16 athletes who will represent the Island at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which will be held from August 24 to September 5 in the Japanese capital.
Source: OnCubaNews
July 18, 2021
The prominent Gran pitcher Lázaro Blanco, who broke with the Cuban Baseball Federation after staying in the United States at the end of the pre-Olympic tournament held in Florida, will resume his sports career on the rise by joining the Estrellas de Oriente, a Dominican Republic team.
Source: Swing Completo
July 17, 2021
It seems very likely that everything that happened in Cuba starting from last Sunday, July 11th, was encouraged by a greater or lesser number of people opposed to the system, some of them even paid, with intentions to destabilize the country and provoke a situation of chaos and insecurity.
Source: La Joven Cuba
July 17, 2021
A night to remember Juan Padrón, with a full auditorium and words courted by humor, so that the mark of the notable Cuban illustrator would be adorned with good vibes.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 16, 2021
The documentary titled Running for the Revolution, dedicated to the life of Cuban Olympic double champion Alberto Juantorena, will be able to be seen in almost the entire world starting in August, according to an announcement by World Athletics (WA) on its digital portal.
Source: Cubadebate
July 16, 2021
This CD is one of the most recent releases from the Unicornio de Producciónes Abdala label.
Source: CubaSi
July 15, 2021
They're from the hill, by Miguel Matamoros, to close out the event, with eight hands and with the sound of Latin jazz with a Cuban accent, a summer refreshment at the presentation of the album Tumbao in Madrid.
Source: CubaSi
July 15, 2021
Valencia Basket confirmed this Thursday the signing of power forward Jasiel Rivero after the Cuban power forward made effective the rescission clause to leave San Pablo Burgos, the club in which he has played the last two seasons.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
July 14, 2021
Last week a name resonated strongly in the Minor Leagues of the United States.
Source: Swing Completo
July 14, 2021
The multi-champion world and Cuban Olympic medalist Héctor Milián, who was admitted in serious condition due to Covid-19 in Havana, is recovering at home from the illness after being discharged, reported the Cuban Federation of Associated Wrestling (FCLA).
Source: Diario de Cuba
July 13, 2021
The 10th Sara González Political Song Contest is being held today, July 13th, in virtual format from the Covarrubias room of the National Theater, in tribute to the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Cuban troubadour.
Source: Radio Reloj, Trabajadores
July 13, 2021
The renowned Cuban singer from the legendary Orquesta Aragón, Sixto Llorente, better known as El Indio, passed away on Monday due to kidney complications.
Source: Prensa Latina
July 12, 2021
Rolando Luna's trio will offer the French public at the prestigious Jazz in Marciac festival an approach to the musical richness of Cuba with their presentation on July 30, announced today by cultural promoter Carmen Mayans.
Source: CubaSi
