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November 18, 2020

The Cienfuegos native José Dariel Abreu received the award for Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the American League, for his formidable offensive season.

Source: Cubadebate

November 18, 2020

The Artistic Agency for Performing Arts ACTUAR, on its Facebook page, deeply regrets and mourns the death of actress and musical comedian Yrene Ibis Relova Chacón, affectionately known as Bebita.

Source: Actuar Facebook

November 17, 2020

Cuban actress, model and singer Yessica Borroto was selected to join the cast of actors who will participate in the third season of the popular Netflix series, "Narcos", where fellow Cuban actor Alberto Guerra and singer Bad Bunny will be among the new faces.

Source: ADNCuba

November 17, 2020

Through social media, the unfortunate news of the death of young Cuban footballer Dairon Blanco has been spread, who died on November 16th in a traffic accident.

Source: Mundo Deportivo, ADN Cuba

November 16, 2020

"Havana is the city of José Martí.

Source: Cubadebate

November 16, 2020

Yasiel Puig is a baseball player who had the attributes to become a baseball superstar and whose light is fading due to his poor judgment, as expressed by Marino Martínez in a special report in the Nuevo Herald.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

November 15, 2020

Journalist Julia Osendi in a publication made on Cibercuba echoes the irreverent treatment received by Professor Rodrigo Álvarez Cambras, who since his retirement 4 years ago, remains forgotten by those who should have respect and admiration for him.

Source: Cibercuba

November 14, 2020

Good music, that which emanates from the heart to generate and transmit feelings or emotions that encourage human improvement, was one of the passions of Eusebio Leal Spengler.

Source: Habana Radio

November 14, 2020

Next November 27th, Andy Vázquez will celebrate his first year of living in Miami.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

November 13, 2020

After months of confinement, there is no better gift for the beautiful city of Havana, on its 501st birthday, than a concert by the sublime Omara Portuondo.

Source: Arte por Excelencias

November 13, 2020

The star pitcher for the New York Yankees, Aroldis Chapman, sued his former financial manager, alleging that millions of dollars were diverted from his savings to finance the manager's luxury purchases and getaways with an exotic dancer.

Source: ADNCuba

November 12, 2020

Cuban fencer Taymi Chappé Valladares, who was a world champion for Cuba and Spain, passed away on Tuesday, November 10 at the age of 52 from a heart attack.

Source: Cibercuba

November 12, 2020

For the work developed in research on Giardia infection in humans, the medical ranking of world experts EXPERTSCAPE placed Cuban doctor Ángel Arturo Escobedo Carbonell in the first position in the world in Giardiasis.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

November 11, 2020

Without a doubt, this year 2020 has been very strange for everyone.

Source: Asere.com

November 11, 2020

Cuban basketball player Jasiel Rivero, winner of the Champions League with Hereda San Pablo Burgos, answered some questions from journalists: –How did the Burgos fans receive the team after their Champions League victory? –It was an incredible experience, I never thought that in such a short time I would have a result like that.

Source: Granma

November 10, 2020

In the Madre Teresa de Calcuta Garden, of the Minor Basilica of the Convent of San Francisco de Asís, a work group from the Office of the Historian of the City of La Habana, is working on the preparation of the site where the ashes of our beloved City Historian, Eusebio Leal Spengler, will be deposited forever.

Source: Cubadebate

November 10, 2020

The Cuban documentary "Leonardo Padura, a Squalid and Moving Story," by journalist Náyare Menoyo, was presented yesterday on the third day of the Trieste Latin American Film Festival, Italy, along with other films from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

Source: Prensa Latina

November 9, 2020

In a tight and attractive match, Cuban Raydel Martínez and París Lodron Salzburg Wasserball prevailed, in a penalty shootout, against defending champion WBC Tirol in the semifinal of the Austrian Bundesliga Herren.

Source: Prensa Latina

November 9, 2020

The prestigious Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero Guerra, one of the great legends of Latin jazz, passed away at age 99 this Saturday, November 7th at his residence in the Bronx, New York.

Source: ADNCuba

November 8, 2020

Dancers from the Lizt Alfonso Ballet echoed the popular social media challenge "Jerusalema Challenge".

Source: Periodico Cubano

November 8, 2020

The renowned Cuban actor Max Álvarez, with a significant career in television, radio, film, and theater, died on November 7, 2020 due to cardiac complications while being treated at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in the capital.

Source: CubaSi

November 7, 2020

Poet Virgilio López Lemus has been recognized with the Samuel Feijóo Prize for Poetry on the Environment 2020, awarded annually by the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, to recognize the life's work of a Cuban poet who has reflected environmental themes in his verses.

Source: Bohemia

November 7, 2020

During the battle round stage this Friday, Dayana Emma received praise from all the coaches and their advisors.

Source: Antena 3, Cibercuba

November 6, 2020

When the prestigious intellectual Miguel Barnet asserts that not just anyone is a glory of Cuba like Beatriz Márquez, he praises, through this just evocation, someone who has recreated for her people the lattice of a prodigious work as an interpreter.

Source: Granma

November 6, 2020

The best Cuban hitter in the Major Leagues, José Dariel Abreu, has just proven the predictions right and won the third Silver Bat of his career.

Source: Cibercuba

November 5, 2020

The Cuban poetess Dulce María Loynaz received one day like today in 1993 from the hands of the King of Spain, in the Paraninfo of the University of Alcalá de Henares, the Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra Prize, corresponding to the year 1992.

Source: Cubarte

November 5, 2020

A few days ago, composer Alfredo Diez Nieto was turning 102 years old, to the delight of Cuban music and culture.

Source: Granma

November 4, 2020

A few days after turning 90 years old, Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, National Music Prize winner, known worldwide as the Filin's Sweetheart and the Diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, will premiere today Thursday the 4th, on digital platforms, the single Silencio, a bolero by Puerto Rican Rafael Hernández, which she shares with the Boricua Andy Monatñez, and which will be part of her upcoming album, still in preparation.

Source: Granma

November 4, 2020

On Monday, November 2, Miguel Álvarez Sánchez died as a result of cancer.

Source: Cubacute

November 3, 2020

The Cuban humorist Antolín El Pichón has thanked social media for the numerous messages received after the sad news of his son Dayán García Menéndez's death was made public.

Source: Cibercuba

November 3, 2020

With a roster greatly affected by absences due to COVID-19, the club Hereda San Pablo Burgos, where Cuban Jasiel Rivero plays, had a complicated return to the ACB Basketball League in Spain, losing with a wide score of 78-99 against Urbas Fuenlabrada.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

November 2, 2020

How can you dance Giselle, if Giselle is you?, asked the renowned English critic Arnold Haskell, upon seeing that willi-dancer who crossed the stage without touching it with her soft slippers… One day in June of 1967 he wrote to her: "It was something so full in body and spirit, an ecstasy of happiness, suffering and perfect love, that it cannot be described in words.

Source: Cubarte

November 2, 2020

Osvaldo Alonso, the most prominent Cuban footballer in the history of Major League Soccer (MLS), has been nominated as one of 134 candidates to make the list of the 25 best players in the professional circuit of the United States, which will soon celebrate its first quarter century since its founding.

Source: OnCubaNews

November 1, 2020

Cuban singer Alex Cuba will be one of the artists performing at the gala of the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards 2020.

Source: Diario de Cuba

November 1, 2020

David Calzado and his Charanga Habanera has managed to bring together in a new musical production "the charangueros of old," which brings to mind several of the most important moments in the history of the popular Cuban dance music orchestra.

Source: Cibercuba

October 31, 2020

Outstanding Cuban musician Leoni Torres recently announced on his social media profile that the single "Miloca", the first release from the CD Alma Cubana, is now available.

Source: Periodico Cubano

October 31, 2020

Arnaldo Rodríguez threw a no-hit, no-run game last Thursday against Pinar del Río, the 58th in the history of Cuban baseball championships.

Source: Juventud Rebelde

October 30, 2020

The Cuban-American writer and analyst Carlos Alberto Montaner intervened for the first time in an electoral campaign by offering a message in favor of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 30, 2020

The 2020 National Radio and Television Award was presented this Thursday in the capital, during an event held as part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of Cuban television.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 29, 2020

Dedicated for more than 70 years to culture and to enrich Cuban music in the world, singer Omara Portuondo celebrates life today with an online concert alongside artists from several countries.

Source: Cuba.cu

October 29, 2020

Last June Silvio Rodríguez presented Para la espera, a work composed of thirteen songs, ten previously unreleased and three previously released.

Source: Página 12

October 28, 2020

The prominent filmmaker and film critic Enrique Colina Álvarez passed away on October 27 in Havana, after a long battle against cancer, at the age of 76 and with the recognition of Cuban filmmakers, and especially of the people who remember him mainly as the host for 30 years of the television program for film appreciation 24 por segundo.

Source: Bohemia

October 28, 2020

The Cubans Liván Moinelo and Yurisbel Gracial were crowned champions of the Pacific League with the SoftBank Hawks, after defeating the Lotte Marines 5-1 to mathematically secure first place in the Professional Japanese Baseball League standings.

Source: CMHW.cu

October 27, 2020

Reaching 90 years of age is a challenge for any human being; but doing so with innocence, a sense of humor, inexhaustible creative inspiration and physical and intellectual capacity to realize it, is a miracle.

Source: Cubarte

October 27, 2020

Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal will premiere the album Carlos Guastavino, Piano Music on November first under the Dutch record label Piano Classics.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 26, 2020

The Cuban Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, who currently serves as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Córdoba, Spain, was recognized by the Green Talents-International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development, created "to promote the international exchange of innovative ecological ideas from various fields of research".

Source: ADNCuba

October 26, 2020

The Cuban Randy Arozarena continues his record streak and with it increasingly enters baseball history with a dream postseason that, on the other hand, has the Dodgers on maximum alert.

Source: El Nuevo Herald

October 25, 2020

Carlos Acosta's ballet in Birmingham has adopted a renewed wardrobe suited to current times on the planet, these are tutus designed in the nineteenth century in times of smallpox and cholera The acclaimed Cuban dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta returns to live stages with a ballet program ingeniously designed to comply with the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Cubatel

October 25, 2020

Touching message from Tahimí Alvariño to her mother Coralita Veloz after receiving the National Radio and Television Award The renowned Cuban actress Coralita Veloz, one of the most beloved in Cuba, has received the National Radio and Television Award, the highest honor granted on the Island for a lifetime of work in the sector.

Source: Cubacute

October 24, 2020

The 2020 edition of the Gilberto Caballero Almeida Scientific Journalism contest awarded its most important prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award, to the television program Antena, by Mara Roque, in recognition of the news coverage it has provided on the main national and international events related to science, technology and the environment, since 1993, held in Cuba, as well as to the journeys and dates of global scope related to them.

Source: Cuba.cu