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April 28, 2022

Medicine, public health, and higher medical education have suffered a great loss with the passing of prominent professor and public health expert DrC.

Source: Ministerio de Salud Pública

April 27, 2022

Los Van Van, the emblematic Cuban salsa orchestra, will begin this week their tour through several cities in the United States such as San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, New York, Miami and Orlando.

Source: ADN Cuba

April 27, 2022

The legendary Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Don Omar premiered a new music video for his song It's Me, a collaboration with his compatriot Wisin and the Cuban duo Gente de Zona.

Source: Cubanoticias360

April 26, 2022

Cuban DJ Ernesto Jorge Hidalgo, known as DJ Tiko, died at age 39 while traveling from the Mexican city of Tijuana toward the southern border of the United States, according to reports shared on social media.

Source: NoticiasCuba.net

April 26, 2022

Franco-Cuban twin sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz, from the musical duo "Ibeyi" modeled this week for the famous fashion magazine "Vogue".

Source: ADN Cuba

April 25, 2022

At the closing session of the 24th National Congress of History, the 2022 National Prize in History was awarded to Matanzas native Urbano Martínez Carmenate, auxiliary researcher at the Palacio de Junco Museum, author of more than 25 publications, fundamentally in the biographical genre, who has been recipient of important recognitions from the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, is a Prize of Criticism and whose contributions to Cuban historiography are distinguished, even from the approach of local history.

Source: Cubadebate, Granma

April 25, 2022

When Chinese athlete Gao Chong broke the Guinness record for the most ball touches in one minute using only his head (341), he did not know that he was imposing a new challenge to the man of ball mastery in Cuba, Erick Hernández, who took on such a challenge and prepared for it with the sacrifice and responsibility it entails.

Source: Granma

April 24, 2022

Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal will perform several presentations in Sweden as a guest soloist at the Tommie Haglund International Festival 2022, from April 22 to 28.

Source: Prensa Latina

April 24, 2022

The talented Cuban baseball player Lionard Kindelán, son of the once-stellar Santiago slugger Orestes Kindelán, will return to professional baseball soon, reports Swing Completo.

Source: Swing Completo

April 23, 2022

Cuban actress Ana de Armas is already an actress who triumphs in Hollywood.

Source: Cubanoticias360

April 23, 2022

So many children filled the Dora Alonso room of the Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, a space that during this 30th edition of the Havana International Book Fair hosted the presentation of El Gran libro de Chamaquili, a reprint of that title that first saw light in 2015 and which is —"with the permission of Mapá"—, a selection of the first nine volumes that have as their protagonist the restless Chamaquili, by Alexis Díaz Pimienta, narrator, poet, researcher and improviser.

Source: Granma

April 22, 2022

Cuban actor William Levy stars in the launch campaign for the spring/summer collection of Emidio Tucci, a brand of El Corte Inglés.

Source: Cibercuba

April 22, 2022

Amaury Pérez Vidal has always loved music, and since he chose this profession, he has devoted heart and soul to every lyric, chord, and melody.

Source: Cubadebate

April 21, 2022

Yordenis Ugás paid dearly for his courage.

Source: Cubanoticias360

April 21, 2022

Cuban fashion designer Isabel Toledo is the protagonist of the most recent exhibition on American design by SCAD, in southern France.

Source: Diario de Cuba

April 20, 2022

Giraldo Carales was selected for the 10th edition of the famous reality show MasterChef España.

Source: Cubatel

April 20, 2022

Cuban journalist Maray Suárez, former commentator for Cuban TV News, became another communicator from the island who in recent times has made the decision to settle in Miami, United States.

Source: Directorio Cubano

April 19, 2022

The popular musician José Luis Cortés, El Tosco, flutist, arranger, composer, music producer and director of the orchestra NG la Banda since its founding in 1988, died this Monday in Havana at the age of 70.

Source: Cubadebate, Granma

April 19, 2022

Cuban poet and narrator Antonio Herrada Hidalgo received the Complutense Literature Prize 2022 in the poetry category awarded by the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Source: Cubanoticias360

April 18, 2022

The International Weightlifting Federation ratified by election Cuban weightlifter Marina Rodríguez as a member of the Athletes Commission.

Source: CubaSi

April 18, 2022

Outstanding Cuban journalist and essayist Nicanor León Cotayo passed away last Friday in La Habana, at the age of 83, after a long and painful illness.

Source: CubaSi

April 17, 2022

It's here! "CELIA IN CUBA (1925-1962)" is now a reality.

Source: Facebook

April 17, 2022

Former baseball player Víctor Mesa, who recently returned to Cuba after three years living in Miami, traveled to his native province of Villa Clara, where one of his daughters and a large part of his wife's family, Eneida Ríos, reside.

Source: Cibercuba

April 16, 2022

Singer-songwriter Lázaro García, one of the founders of the Nueva Trova Movement in Cuba, died this Friday at the age of 74 from esophageal cancer.

Source: Perlavisión

April 16, 2022

Mauricio Diez Canseco married Cuban actress and singer Lisandra Lizama Valido in his fourth marriage.

Source: RPP Perú

April 15, 2022

Yul Vázquez is a name that will mean nothing to the vast majority of Cubans living on the Island, despite being an actor and musician who has accumulated more than 60 roles in film, television, and theater, and who was born in Cuba.

Source: Diario de Cuba

April 15, 2022

The writer and researcher from Matanzas, Urbano Martínez Carmenate, was awarded the National History Prize 2022 for his extraordinary intellectual trajectory and human merits.

Source: Cubarte

April 14, 2022

Cuban writer and filmmaker Senel Paz received the Ernest Hemingway literature prize in Spanish this Wednesday.

Source: Cubanoticias360

April 14, 2022

For My Tres is the first musical production debuted by tres player Yarima Blanco alongside her group Son Latino.

Source: Radio COCO

April 13, 2022

The Assembly of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) elected Juan Reynaldo Pérez Pardo as its new president today.

Source: Jit

April 13, 2022

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra will stand out this Wednesday as a reference for one of the best teams in road cycling, Movistar Team, in the classic Belgian race Flecha de Brabante, just before the mythical Ardennes campaign.

Source: Cubasi

April 12, 2022

The beginning of Yasiel Puig's first season in the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) is quite encouraging.

Source: Swing Completo

April 12, 2022

Fernando Dayán Jorge Enríquez, the Cuban Olympic champion canoeist, has gone viral due to the testimony of two other nationals who crossed the Rio Bravo with him.

Source: Cubitanow

April 11, 2022

The Cuban urban music duo Gente de Zona, winner of four Latin Grammy Awards, fulfills in their new album, "De menor a mayor", the dream of singing with Celia Cruz.

Source: San Diego Tribune

April 11, 2022

Being an actor was never part of Yasiel Céspedes' plans.

Source: CubaSi

April 10, 2022

The jury made its final decision: Dúo Iris is the first prize winner in the performance category of the San Remo Music Awards Cuba 2022 after four galas where each of the 16 finalists demonstrated why they deserved that opportunity.

Source: Cubadebate

April 10, 2022

The once stellar judoka Estela Rodríguez, Cuba's first world champion in the discipline, died in Havana as a result of a heart attack, confirmed today by the digital media outlet Jit.

Source: Radio Bayamo

April 9, 2022

Singer Camila Cabello released her album Familia this Friday, where she shows her Latin roots.

Source: Cubitanow

April 9, 2022

The life of Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés will be told in a documentary currently being prepared by audiovisual filmmaker Fabien Pisani.

Source: Cibercuba

April 8, 2022

These days, not a few media outlets have reported on the appearance of the first film in Netflix history to receive an "adults only" rating.

Source: Cubalite

April 8, 2022

Cuban boxer Yordenis Ugás will face Errol Spence Jr.

Source: Play off Magazine

April 7, 2022

Cuban actress Irela Bravo, known for her character Cachita in the Cuban TV comedy "Vivir del Cuento," returned to Cuba to film new episodes of the show, as confirmed by Luis Silva on his Instagram.

Source: ADN Cuba, TodoCubaOnline

April 7, 2022

The National Prize for Cultural Journalism José Antonio Fernández de Castro, for a lifetime of work, was awarded to journalist and art critic Jorge Rivas Rodríguez, of the newspaper Trabajadores, who was selected from among 45 nominated professionals by more than 60 institutions in the sector, as well as by artistic organizations, portals and press media throughout the country.

Source: Cubarte

April 6, 2022

Yolanda Benet, immortalized with the musical theme "Yolanda", detailed through her Facebook profile how her last conversation with her daughter, Suylén Milanés, was, who passed away last January at the age of 50, due to a stroke.

Source: Actualidad Cuba

April 6, 2022

Distinguished Cuban essayist Ambrosio Fornet passed away this Tuesday at age 89, according to a post on Twitter by the president of Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto.

Source: Juventud Rebelde

April 5, 2022

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra delivered a flawless performance this Sunday as a member of the Movistar team of Olympic and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten, who crossed the finish line second and the Cuban fourth in the important classic Tour of Flanders in Belgium.

Source: Jit

April 5, 2022

The 'Cuban Missile' could adopt a new role in the Yankees pitching staff for the 2022 Major League Baseball Season.

Source: Séptima Entrada

April 4, 2022

Three Cuban musicians won the 2022 Grammy Award this Sunday in their respective categories.

Source: Cubitanow

April 4, 2022

The renowned pole vaulter Yarisley Silva has requested her withdrawal from the National Track and Field Team along with her coach Alexander Navas.

Source: Directorio Cubano

April 3, 2022

The Film Academy awards the Gold Medal to Latin American actors and actresses who are part of Spanish cinema Represented by Argentine Cecilia Roth and Cuban Jorge Perugorría, they will be honored this month of April.

Source: Academia de Cine.com