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September 24, 2020

In many different ways, confirmation is obtained of the essential referential compass that Leo Brouwer's work represents in the repertoire of guitarists throughout the planet.

Source: Granma

September 24, 2020

Cuban baseball player Yurisbel Gracial hit his eighth home run today of the 2020 Japanese professional baseball season.

Source: Jit

September 23, 2020

The great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta (Havana, 1973), one of the most important figures of the Cuban school of ballet and male dance of our time, has just been awarded the Annual Prize of "Dance Magazine" (United States), one of the most important recognitions granted to transcendental figures of dance on a worldwide scale.

Source: Cubadebate

September 23, 2020

Matt Dillon knows everything about Afro-Cuban music, and more specifically about its representatives in exile, as he made clear this Tuesday at the San Sebastián Film Festival.

Source: Vanguardia

September 22, 2020

Humberto Yusta Gómez and Manuel Darío Oliver Ballesteros, students of Centro Mixto Obdulio Morales de Zulueta and the Instituto Preuniversitario Vocacional de Ciencias Exactas (IPVCE) "Ernesto Guevara" of Villa Clara, respectively, won bronze medals each in the 32nd edition of the International Olympiad in Informatics, organized by Singapore and disputed among competitors from around 90 nations in a virtual format.

Source: Universidad Central \\"Marta Abreu\\", Las Villas

September 22, 2020

The Cuban-American Bárbara Lagoa, daughter of Cuban migrants, is one of the candidates to replace the late Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Source: OnCuba News

September 21, 2020

The new single that Gente de Zona had prepared in collaboration with Mexican-American singer Gerardo Ortiz has already premiered.

Source: Cibercuba

September 21, 2020

Recently, Cuba's Ministry of Justice issued a birth certificate that recognizes the dual motherhood or shared motherhood of the couple formed by Dachelys Valdés and Hope Bastian, residents of the Havana municipality of Plaza de la Revolución.

Source: Prensa Latina

September 20, 2020

The singer, composer, poet, and orchestra director Cándido Fabré, known as the King of Improvisation in danceable music, turns 61 years old this September 20th.

Source: Cubarte

September 20, 2020

Cuban singer Sory Pérez joined her voice with renowned Colombian singer Juanes, in what appears to be a casual encounter to perform the song "Para tu amor".

Source: Cubanos por el Mundo

September 19, 2020

With great enthusiasm, thousands of followers of Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez are waiting for the premiere of Catherine Murphy's documentary, "Silvio Rodríguez: My First Task" In an exclusive interview with Catherine Murphy, interwoven with moving images from the Literacy Campaign in 1961, Silvio recounts an unknown chapter of his adolescence and how that experience marked and shaped him.

Source: Arte por Excelencias

September 19, 2020

Those who know her say she has the formula for eternal youth because she doesn't look her age, but perhaps one of the ingredients in this recipe is the affection that thousands of Cubans feel for her.

Source: Cubacute

September 18, 2020

Today marks 40 years since the return of the first joint space flight of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Cuba.

Source: Juventud Rebelde

September 18, 2020

Cuban pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa premiered his musical version of Buey Cansao, which is the recent collaboration with singer Cimafunk, in which they pay tribute to the emblematic group Los Van Van.

Source: Cubadebate

September 17, 2020

'Brazil305' celebrates 'the African union existing between the musical roots of Cuba and Brazil', she says.

Source: Diario de Cuba

September 17, 2020

Alfredo Despaigne maintains his good personal pace in the 2020 season of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Source: Swingcompleto.com

September 16, 2020

Culture Leonardo Padura: "I've had the temptation of exile, but I need Cuba to write" He narrates the lives of a group of friends, most of whom abandon the island MARCOS MÍGUEZ enrique clemente 13/09/2020 10:49 h Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) has written the great novel of Cuban exile, Like Dust in the Wind (Tusquets), in which he masterfully narrates, with a complex structure and great psychological depth, the lives of a group of friends, called The Clan, that survives over time despite dispersion, because most of them leave their country.

Source: La Voz de Asturias

September 16, 2020

With the death of art critic Antonio Pérez Santos, president of the Provincial Committee of the Uneac in Villa Clara, not only the artistic community of the center of the Island, but Cuban culture lost one of its most tireless and lucid promoters, with a profound and lasting mark on the spiritual life of the nation.

Source: Granma

September 15, 2020

After a day in which he managed only a draw in three games, Grandmaster Leinier Domínguez fell in the standings of the Champions Showdown Chess 9LX and ended up sharing sixth and seventh place.

Source: Cibercuba

September 15, 2020

The Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra completed the strongest stage of the Giro Rosa yesterday, Monday, finishing in 45th place on the fourth day of the race, according to the Cuban News Agency (ACN).

Source: Juventud Rebelde

September 14, 2020

The neuroscientist Roberto Rodríguez Labrada was elected as a Young Affiliate member of the World Academy of Sciences (The World Academy of Science, TWAS).

Source: Juventud Técnica

September 14, 2020

The Cuban relief pitcher Raidel Martínez, of Chunichi Dragons, saved his twelfth game today in the 2020 season of the Japanese Professional Baseball League.

Source: Prensa Latina

September 13, 2020

The documentary Silvio Rodríguez: mi primera tarea, by American filmmaker Catherine Murphy, will arrive on the screens of the Buenos Aires International Festival (Fidba 2020) on September 24th.

Source: Bohemia

September 13, 2020

The Cuban Grandmaster Leinier Domínguez achieved victory in the first game of the Champions Showdown Chess 9LX Chess 960 tournament, which is played online and sponsored by the Saint Louis Chess Club, and has already accumulated 2.

Source: Cibercuba

September 12, 2020

The distinguished Cuban meteorologist, Doctor José Rubiera, received his medical discharge today, Saturday, September 12, after undergoing surgery, medical sources reported this Saturday.

Source: Tribuna de La Habana

September 11, 2020

The Cuban cinema portal of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), announced that the dossier of this publication, corresponding to the month of September, is dedicated to Eusebio Leal, as it is the birth month of the prominent Cuban historian and intellectual, who recently passed away.

Source: CubaCine.cult.cu

September 11, 2020

Cuban singer Daymé Arocena is featured in the lineup of the Festival Mucho, whose third online edition will bring together major names in Latin music from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

Source: Prensa Latina

September 10, 2020

The Washington Nationals selected the contract of 32-year-old rookie Yadiel Hernandez, who played for five years in his native Cuba before signing with Washington in 2016.

Source: ESPN Deportes

September 9, 2020

The Cuban Alfredo Despaigne, of SoftBank Hawks, connected his first two home runs of the current Japanese Professional Baseball League season today, in which he made his debut at the end of last month.

Source: Bohemia

September 9, 2020

An unprecedented double in the Spanish indoor track championships in Ourense (60 meters flat and hurdles) and four victories in his four outdoor races, once freed from confinement, draw a dazzling trajectory for Cuban Orlando Ortega in the year of the pandemic.

Source: ADN Cuba

September 8, 2020

The beloved and respected Cuban meteorologist José Rubiera is admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Havana, where he is recovering after undergoing surgery following a cardiovascular episode, confirmed to Cubadebate by his wife Yamilys.

Source: Cubadebate, Cibercuba

September 8, 2020

On the morning of September 6, the young dancer, choreographer and teacher, Isbel García Villazán, passed away at the age of 34, victim of bacterial meningoencephalitis.

Source: Cubaescena

September 7, 2020

Cuban athlete Omara Durand won the recent International Paralympic Committee (IPC) vote on Twitter to decide the best moment in the Paralympic Games of the last decade.

Source: CubaDebate

September 7, 2020

The members of the National Board of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution approved the release by renewal of comrade Carlos Rafael Miranda Martínez from his responsibility as National Coordinator of the CDR, a position he had held for more than nine years.

Source: Cubadebate

September 6, 2020

Last Friday, Viengsay Valdés, prima ballerina and director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC), was honored in Italy with the Positano Prize for Dance Léonide Massine, in the category of best ballerina on the international stage.

Source: Granma

September 6, 2020

The Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC) is pleased to inform that Doctor of Sciences Consuelo Macías Abrahams has been selected to join the Partnership Group of Science Academies of the World (IAP by its English acronym), to collaborate in the position and drafting of a document on Regenerative Medicine, as specified by the institution in information published on its digital site.

Source: Granma

September 5, 2020

The work Polvo gris sobre los párpados, by renowned Cuban writer, critic, editor and journalist Rogelio Riverón, member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), won the Iberoamerican Short Story Prize Julio Cortázar, in its nineteenth edition.

Source: Uneac

September 5, 2020

The Cuban Luis Robert is seriously aspiring to the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 2020.

Source: Swingcompleto.com

September 4, 2020

The renowned Cuban historian Eduardo Torres Cuevas, doctor in Historical Sciences, was born in Havana on this very day in 1942, and has dedicated his life to the study and research of Cuban history, contributing through his work as a teacher and the publication of an important group of texts.

Source: Cubarte

September 4, 2020

The stellar left-handed pitcher from Pinar del Río, Liván Moinelo, continues to have a great season in Japan's Professional Baseball League, after achieving another scoreless inning this Thursday in the second most competitive tournament in this sport at the world level.

Source: Granma

September 3, 2020

One of the main figures in Cuban plastic arts, sculptor José Villa Soberón, who this Wednesday turned 70 years old, continues working on multiple projects.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

September 3, 2020

Paco Prats, National Film Prize 2020, passed away this Wednesday, September 2nd.

Source: Havana Film Festival

September 2, 2020

A music video for the song "A Bolero for You" by Eliades Ochoa, which he included on his most recent album "Let's Dance a Son" (2020), has been available on digital platforms since late August, this time alongside flamenco singer Argentina María López Tristancho.

Source: Granma

September 2, 2020

The authorities in Spain are investigating the death of Dairo Jovelar Ruiz, a 33-year-old Cuban adult film actor, model, and bodybuilder, who was found lifeless last Thursday, August 27, in Barcelona.

Source: Cubacute

September 1, 2020

The Cuban feature-length documentary A media voz, directed by Cuban filmmakers Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, won the Silver Biznaga for Best Director in the Documentary section this Saturday during the awards ceremony of the 23rd edition of the Málaga Film Festival.

Source: Todo Cuba

September 1, 2020

In the province of Córdoba, a Cuban man is making history today with an infinite act of love and solidarity: after recovering from Covid-19, he became the largest plasma donor to save lives in Argentina.

Source: Prensa Latina

August 31, 2020

With more than fifty years of career on stage, Pablo Milanés has become one of the most important musicians in the entire Latin music scene.

Source: OnCuba News, La Voz de Cádiz

August 31, 2020

Today we congratulate the Cuban professor, narrator and poetess Nersys Teresita Felipe Herrera on her birthday, National Literature Prize winner 2011.

Source: TelePinar, Cubarte

August 30, 2020

Cuban boxer Erislandy Lara retained his super welterweight title from the World Boxing Association (WBA) this Saturday by defeating American Greg Vendetti at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles by unanimous decision in 12 rounds.

Source: Wikipedia

August 30, 2020

Raúl González PhD in clinical psychology, was born in Cuba in 1975, arrived in the United States at age five, and today directs the team of 14 researchers at Florida International University (FIU) assigned to research on brain development in adolescence.

Source: OnCuba News