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April 15, 2021

An Official Statement informs that at the proposal of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and of the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Council of State approved releasing from the position of Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces -FAR- Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintra Frías, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, who possesses an extensive and brilliant record of service to the Homeland.

Source: Radio Reloj

April 15, 2021

With humor and poetry, the country can be saved from coronavirus or at least an attempt can be made to get people to take the necessary measures to preserve their health in this difficult stage.

Source: Bohemia

April 15, 2021

Yurisbel Gracial hit three hits in four at-bats and the Softbank Hawks climbed to first place in the Pacific League by defeating the Orix Buffaloes 4-3 in front of more than 9,000 spectators at the Pay Pay Dome stadium in Fukuoka.

Source: Cubadebate

April 14, 2021

A fruitful day was had by the bats wielded by Cuban ballplayers who perform in the Japanese professional baseball league, hitting five hits in 13 times at bat.

Source: Cubasi

April 14, 2021

Cuban actor Alejandro Cuervo opened his own business in Havana and thus entered the world of entrepreneurship on the Island.

Source: Cubatel

April 13, 2021

This Monday, renowned journalist Carlos Iglesias passed away in Havana, a colleague who worked in different media outlets in the country and was recognized for his commendable work in the Cuban Television information system.

Source: Cubaperiodistas

April 13, 2021

Still unable to complete the game, Cuban Jasiel Rivero increased several personal averages during day 30 of the Endesa League basketball tournament in Spain.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

April 12, 2021

By the authorship of Israel Rojas, lead voice of the duo Buena Fe, both titles exalt the work of health professionals, who inside and outside the Island combat the pandemic, and of scientists, immersed in the achievement of national vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Source: Cuba.cu

April 12, 2021

It was not because of his family connection to the creator of the danzon Las Alturas de Simpson that the flautist from Matanzas, Ethiel Faílde, came to love this rhythm.

Source: Granma

April 11, 2021

Selected from among more than 400 novels that responded to the call, the list of the 12 finalists of the IV Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize was announced, endowed with a sum of 100 thousand US dollars and whose winner will be revealed during the Biennial to be held in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, from September 23 to 26.

Source: Milenio

April 11, 2021

To the ascending spiral of Cuban piano repertoire, which has its roots in the tradition of Saumell, Ruiz Espadero, Cervantes and Lecuona, a new but hardly surprising turn has just been added with the circulation of the work of Yalil Guerra, performed by Marcos Madrigal.

Source: Granma

April 10, 2021

Ruy Adrián López-Nussa wins first prize in Madrid in the competition convened by SGAE for jazz composers "Tete Montoliu".

Source: Cubadebate

April 10, 2021

A Habanero through and through, to the point that ten years exactly since his physical passing have not managed to tarnish the almost mystical connection between the work of Héctor Quintero (1942-2011), the most successful of Cuban playwrights, and that pulsating capital he conceived for his characters.

Source: Tribuna de La Habana

April 9, 2021

The renowned Cuban actor in radio, television, theater, and cinema Frank González, National Television Prize 2019, passed away in the early morning hours today in this capital, at the age of 73.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

April 9, 2021

Cuban swimmer Luis Vega set a national record in the 200-meter butterfly stroke, with a time of 1:58.

Source: Granma

April 8, 2021

On Wednesday, April 7, at the age of 67, José Manuel Pérez Andino, president of the Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba, died from cardiorespiratory complications.

Source: Granma

April 8, 2021

The Latino Institute of Music (ILM) will premiere in November of this year Alicia's Fantasy, a work composed for violin and orchestra by Daniel Martin Subiaut, president of the aforementioned institution and the Premio Batuta Organization.

Source: CubaSi

April 7, 2021

With leadership in four offensive categories, Cuban Jasiel Rivero receives honors in the European Basketball Champions League as a pillar in the performance of the champion, Hereda San Pablo Burgos.

Source: Cuba.cu

April 7, 2021

Following the launch of the single "Más rollo que película" from the upcoming album Será Que Se Acabó, Alexander Abreu and Havana D'Primera present the music video for this song to their fans.

Source: Cubadebate

April 6, 2021

Yarlo Ruiz is a Cuban actor based in Colombia who is currently part of the cast of Café con Aroma de Mujer, a production that will also star fellow Cuban William Levy.

Source: Asere

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