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February 26, 2025

Any surface serves Cuban Roberto Fabelo to give free rein to his 'vice' with drawing, from a disposable airline bag to a used coffee maker, a kitchen pot or an animal bone, and a good sample of this can be seen these days at the Instituto Cervantes.

Source: Radio Florida

February 22, 2025

Actress Ana de Armas is among the celebrities who will present golden statuettes during the upcoming Oscars ceremony, as announced this Wednesday by the Hollywood Academy.

Source: OnCubaNews

February 22, 2025

Renowned Cuban actress Miriam Socarrás has been selected to participate in the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place from February 13-23.

Source: Cubadebate

February 13, 2025

As part of the Festival de las Estrellas, which will feature artists such as Café Quijano, Sole Giménez, Juan Valderrama and Puma Rodríguez among others, the Movistar Arena in Madrid, in its entirety, was moved, pulsed, vibrated and was stirred at the tribute concert to the immortal artist Pablo Milanés, which bore the title Eternamente Pablo.

Source: Nueva tribuna

February 13, 2025

The National Boxing Commission reported this Tuesday that Iván Horta Rodríguez del Rey has been appointed technical director of the national women's preselection in that sport.

Source: Cubadebate

February 12, 2025

Cuban singer-songwriter Eduardo Sosa Laurencio passed away in the early morning of Wednesday, February 12 in Guantánamo, at the age of 52, due to a hemorrhagic stroke suffered on Monday the 3rd.

Source: Cubasi

February 12, 2025

Cuban baseball player Yoan Moncada, who was a free agent in the Major Leagues after completing his contract with the Chicago White Sox, reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Angels, the team where he will play the 2025 season for five million dollars, according to MLB Network sports journalist Jon Heyman in his X profile.

Source: Diario de Cuba

February 11, 2025

In just ten days, Cuban singer Jorge Soto Papushi will have to compete, along with other performers, for the 2025 World Tejano Awards with his song "Te digo adiós", released in February 2024.

Source: OnCubaNews

February 11, 2025

The jury of the National Community Culture Prize in its twentieth edition, meeting this morning in Havana, has unanimously decided to award the 2024 prize to theater director and pedagogue Carlos Alberto "Tin" Cremata Malberti, for his contributions to community sociocultural work and his extraordinary social impact.

Source: CubaSi

February 10, 2025

The life and sports career of triple Olympic and world boxing champion Teófilo Stevenson will be brought to the big screen in a Cuba-Russia co-production, under the direction of filmmaker Alejandro Gil.

Source: Cubadebate

February 10, 2025

Cuban Lázaro Martínez needed just two attempts to claim first place in the triple jump event at the Val-de-Reuil Indoor Athletics Meet in France.

Source: Jit

February 9, 2025

Cuban design loses an essential figure.

Source: Cubarte

February 9, 2025

The actor also shares a credit as coproducer of the film, which was shot in the Dominican Republic as it could not be filmed in Cuba.

Source: ADN Cuba

February 8, 2025

The most recent album by the founder of Irakere was presented at the Knight Concert Hall, one of the concert halls of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, with a capacity of more than 2,000 spectators and exceptional acoustics.

Source: OnCubaNews

February 8, 2025

Cuban triple jumper Andy Hechavarría won yesterday at the Grand Prix Ciudad de Valencia, a bronze category event of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Source: Granma

February 7, 2025

The Cuban from the Yomiuri Giants, Raidel Martínez, amazed everyone today who witnessed his first bullpen session of the spring, including manager Shinnosuke Abe and Shosei Togo, one of his best pitchers.

Source: Jit

February 7, 2025

Cuban singer-songwriter Eduardo Sosa continues to be reported in critical condition, with guarded prognosis, and without evidence of neurological improvement, the Hospital General Docente Dr.

Source: Escambray

February 6, 2025

Gloria Estefan and Tania León shone at the 2025 Grammys.

Source: Cibercuba

February 6, 2025

More than a year ago, we received excellent news from Spain regarding an excellent Cuban actor, who after appearing in a popular television series on the Island, was "signed" to be part of a musical production in that Iberian nation.

Source: Cubalite

February 5, 2025

Renowned Cuban troubadour Eduardo Sosa suffered a severe stroke during his stay in the eastern province of Guantánamo, reported today Marta Bonet, president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac).

Source: Radio Rebelde

February 5, 2025

Cuban Luis Alberto Orta, Olympic champion in Tokyo-2020 and bronze medalist in Paris-2024, recently returned from Germany, where he was one of the fundamental pieces for club ASV Schorndorf in winning the Bundesliga wrestling championship.

Source: Granma

January 31, 2025

The prestigious Cuban actresses Jacqueline Arenal, Tahimí Alvariño and Isabel Santos will soon come together in a new film to be directed by Carlos Barba.

Source: Cibercuba

January 31, 2025

On February 12, artists and family members will gather at the WiZink Center (Movistar Arena de Madrid) to pay tribute to singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés.

Source: OnCubaNews

January 30, 2025

Former United States Senator Bob Menéndez was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday for accepting bribes in cash and gold bars and acting as an agent for Egypt while selling his influence to businessmen eager to exploit his political power.

Source: Cubadebate

January 30, 2025

All news media are echoing the new success of Cuban player Yordan Álvarez, chosen for the third consecutive time as the best left fielder in MLB.

Source: Cubitanow

January 29, 2025

As in his 80s, with him in the front row, as in his 90s, still close to his death, the grace of Abelardo Estorino called us to Matanzas to celebrate his centennial, which occurs today.

Source: Granma

January 29, 2025

Cuban baseball is in mourning over the death this Tuesday of one of its most significant figures: pitcher Jorge Luis Valdés from Matanzas.

Source: OnCubaNews

January 28, 2025

With a solid and recognized trajectory in Cuban culture, Miguel Barnet Lanza, National Literature Prize winner (1994), poet, narrator, essayist, ethnologist and politician, reaches his 85th birthday today.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

January 28, 2025

The prima ballerina and general director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Viengsay Valdés, will be part of the jury of the Lausanne Prize, in Switzerland, the prestigious company reported today.

Source: Prensa Latina

January 28, 2025

The distinguished radio program director, Caridad Martínez, who worked for more than six decades at Radio Progreso, passed away on Sunday, January 26, 2025, confirmed on X by the media outlet's general director, Yuzaima Cardona Villena.

Source: Juventud Rebelde, Trabajadores

January 27, 2025

Olympic triple champion and world six-time boxing champion, Félix Savón Fabré, has been enjoying conditional release since late 2024 after serving six years in a penitentiary center on the outskirts of Havana, according to several sources confirmed to CubaNet.

Source: Cubanet

January 25, 2025

Raquel Mayedo's career spans from ballet in her childhood to broadcasting.

Source: Granma

January 25, 2025

The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), directed by prima ballerina Viengsay Valdés, announced a new evaluation of its artistic cast, as a result of meticulous work by its principal maîtres and instructors.

Source: La Jiribilla

January 22, 2025

Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarría appears among the long jumpers confirmed for the Moniz Pereira Indoor Athletics Meet in Portugal, which will mark his competitive return as a member of the national team in that sport.

Source: Cubadebate

January 22, 2025

Comedian José 'El Chico Bombón' passes away unexpectedly at age 56; found dead in his home The actor, who became very famous for his parodies of artists on social media, also participated in the film 'Un rey en la Habana'.

Source: Milenio

January 21, 2025

This Sunday, January 19, news broke of the death of Lázaro Arístides Betancourt Mella, a man who left his mark on the Cuban sports system through his passion for athletics.

Source: Cubadebate

January 21, 2025

Cuba's National Prize for Literature recipient, Nancy Morejón, has arrived in Libreville, invited by academic and cultural centers in the Central African country.

Source: Radio Enciclopedia

January 19, 2025

On the afternoon of January 18, the renowned theater, film, radio, and television actor Mario Limonta passed away in Havana, one day before turning 89.

Source: Cubadebate

January 19, 2025

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) announced that Leonor Andrea Borrell Hernández, from Villa Clara, will be inducted into the hall of fame of this sport on May 17th, Leonor, who has resided in the United States since 2016, will become the first female basketball player from the largest island in the Caribbean to achieve this recognition, something that among men had already been obtained in 2015 by Ruperto Herrera Tabío, a native of the capital, a bronze medalist at the Munich Olympic Games, 1972.

Source: Vanguardia

November 29, 2024

Cuban journalism suffered on November 27 the loss of one of its most prestigious professionals.

Source: Granma

November 29, 2024

Carlos Aldana Escalante, a controversial figure in Cuban communist leadership between the mid-1980s and early 1990s, died this Wednesday, November 27 in Havana.

Source: OnCubaNews

November 27, 2024

On November 27th, at the Cuban Institute of Music, in the presence of its president, Indira Fajardo, the 2024 National Music Prize was announced.

Source: Facebook

November 27, 2024

Historic Cuban editor and bookseller Juan Manuel Salvat, based in Miami since the 1960s and founder of Ediciones Universal, a publishing house that published numerous authors from the Island, died this Tuesday at age 84, reported art critic and curator Jesús Rosado on his Facebook profile.

Source: Diario de Cuba

November 26, 2024

Cuban musician Chucho Valdés revealed this past weekend to news channel América TeVé that he considered himself one more exile, confessing his decision to live permanently in the United States.

Source: ADN Cuba

November 26, 2024

The documentary "El adiós dorado de La Mejor," dedicated to the retirement of Paralympic champion Omara Durand, had its premiere this morning in the Alfredo Guevara hall at Pabellón Cuba, on the same day as the distinguished athlete's 33rd birthday.

Source: Cubadebate

November 25, 2024

Cuban actor Alexis Valdés won the Martín Fierro Latino 2024 award in the Humor Work in Television and Platforms category.

Source: Cibercuba

November 25, 2024

Cuban broadcaster Magdiel Pérez revealed the reasons why he decided to emigrate to the U.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

November 23, 2024

Carlos Varela, the renowned Cuban singer-songwriter, has presented his most recent musical work, "Nada es como antes", an album that reflects the maturity and emotions of his life after leaving Cuba.

Source: Cubitanow

November 23, 2024

The popular Cuban presenter Marino Luzardo has been in Spain for several days, which has led some of his followers to wonder about the reason and duration of his stay.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

November 19, 2024

Cuban actor Rubén Cortada was awarded this Sunday with the Luz Prize during the 50th edition of the Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva.

Source: Cubanet