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May 9, 2022

With displays of affection and recognition toward one of the Cuban bards most beloved by his people, a conversation about the Centennial of poet Jesús Orta Ruíz, El Indio Naborí, took place in Buenos Aires, with the participation of distinguished intellectuals from the Island, including writer, essayist and professor Francisco López Sacha; poet, narrator and essayist Jorge Ángel Hernández Pérez; writer, editor, journalist and professor Yamil Díaz Gómez; and writer and cultural promoter Karel Alexei Leyva Ferrer.

Source: Cubarte

May 8, 2022

Matías Montes Huidobro (Sagua La Grande, 1931), one of the most prominent intellectual figures of Cuban exile, died this Friday in Miami at the age of 91, after a prolific career dedicated to playwriting, narrative, university teaching, journalism, and literary editing.

Source: Cibercuba

May 7, 2022

Cuban pitcher Raidel Martínez recorded his eighth save of the 2022 professional Japanese baseball season.

Source: Jit

May 7, 2022

Spanish-naturalized Cuban Hirisley Jiménez was recently crowned Miss Grand España 2022, a national beauty pageant in which she represented the Canary Islands, where she has lived for the past 10 years.

Source: Cubanoticias360

May 6, 2022

Weeks ago, Arlenis Sierra had expressed to this newspaper that when her Movistar club gave her the opportunity to fight to dominate a race, she would not let that opportunity pass.

Source: Granma

May 6, 2022

The event organizers assured that the day of celebrations will be dedicated to musician Ignacio Piñeiro, considered a versatile interpreter of the genre and its most diverse styles.

Source: Prensa Latina

May 5, 2022

A tribute to the famous Cuban singer Celia Cruz opened the awards ceremony for the ninth edition of the Platino Awards, the most important accolades for Iberoamerican cinema, which were held last Sunday in Spain.

Source: Cubanoticias360

May 5, 2022

From the year 2000 to the present, several Cuban players have stood out with the bat in the best baseball league in the world.

Source: Swing Completo

May 3, 2022

Popular Cuban actress and comedian Yerlín Pérez López has just arrived in Miami, where she had an emotional reunion with her son on the Carlucho Show.

Source: Cibercuba

May 3, 2022

Cuban Arlenis Sierra, leader of the Movistar formation in the Vuelta a Andalucía in Spain, won this Tuesday the first of the three stages of that cycling race, which marked her first triumph since her arrival at this powerful team, one of the main ones in the world.

Source: OnCubaNews

May 3, 2022

On the occasion of the celebrations for International Dance Day, in Cuba, the recognition was announced that honors the trajectory of a man dedicated to artistic creation and with a blessed skill for putting together a production.

Source: Radio Enciclopedia, TV Yumuri

May 2, 2022

The spinoff of the successful action saga starring Keanu Reeves confirms its new heroine, Ana de Armas, who after James Bond and the upcoming 'The Gray Man', is diving into the genre at the highest level.

Source: Vandal

May 2, 2022

Cuban academic Manuel Márquez Sterling Domínguez passed away on April 23 at the age of 90, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he had lived for decades.

Source: ADN Cuba

May 1, 2022

Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, a prestigious Cuban diplomat and politician, passed away in Havana on Sunday, May 1st, according to official sources.

Source: Granma, ADN Cuba

May 1, 2022

The renowned Cuban jazz musician Chucho Valdés spoke with the international press about his upcoming appearance on stage with singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, next July 5th at the XI edition of Starlite Catalana Occidente.

Source: UniVista TV

April 30, 2022

Cuban singer-songwriters Albita Rodríguez, Lena Burke and Lucrecia will join their voices for the concert Women Off the Beat to take place on May 7th at the Dade County Auditorium in Miami.

Source: Telemundo 51, Diario de Cuba

April 30, 2022

Theater in Matanzas is in mourning, one of its best exponents has died, Francisco "Pancho" Rodríguez, a street artist who left behind an infinite body of work.

Source: Mirada Cubana

April 29, 2022

The suspense novel that premiered on Netflix on April 20th, the series has everything to make you not want to miss a single detail.

Source: Cuballama, Cubitanow

April 29, 2022

The documentary "Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums" about the Cuban musician currently considered one of the best jazz pianists of the moment, premiered last Saturday at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas, as part of the USA Film Festival.

Source: Cubitanow

April 28, 2022

Cuban Marcel Hernández is today the top foreign scorer in the history of the first division of Costa Rican soccer, after scoring a hat-trick in his team's 4-0 victory.

Source: Prensa Latina

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