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January 4, 2022

Leyanis Pérez, from Pinar del Río, is the most promising revelation of the year that is just ending and one of the greatest talents in contemporary Cuban athletics.

Source: Cubahora

January 3, 2022

The American Grand Master of Cuban origin Leinier Domínguez ranked in fifteenth place in the first ranking of 2022, according to the official website of the International Chess Federation.

Source: Cibercuba

January 3, 2022

From the most unusual spaces for dance within the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC) starred in the gala that is annually held in tribute to the revolutionary triumph of 1959.

Source: Cubadebate

January 2, 2022

The prestigious Forbes magazine published its traditional list of the most influential people of the year, in which each of those selected "has played some key role in Spanish politics, economics or society" or even "sometimes in all of them at once", and it is Cuban actress Ana de Armas who tops that list.

Source: Asere

January 2, 2022

The emblematic Cuban musician based in Miami, Willy Chirino, announced an upcoming concert together with popular singer Leoni Torres in Florida.

Source: ADN Cuba

January 1, 2022

On Thursday, December 30th, it was announced that José María Vitier García-Marruz was selected by a jury presided over by the master and National Music Prize winner, Digna Guerra, and also composed of fellow national prize winners Joaquín Betancourt, Guido López-Gavilán and Edesio Alejando, and musicologist Laura Vilar, director of Cidmuc (Center for Research and Development of Cuban Music), and they awarded him the National Music Prize 2021.

Source: Granma

January 1, 2022

The outstanding Cuban baseball players Armando Capiró and Rogelio García are among the new inductees to the Palmar de Junco Hall of Fame, located in the iconic baseball stadium of the same name, in the western province of Matanzas.

Source: OncubaNews

December 31, 2021

The Americas branch of the International Association of Sports Press recognized Jesús G.

Source: Juventud Rebelde

December 31, 2021

Cuban pitcher Odrisamer Despaigne will be with the KT Wiz in the upcoming season of the Korean Professional Baseball League, after receiving a new contract worth 1.

Source: Swing Completo

December 30, 2021

The researcher Gilberto Silva Taboada (Havana, November 21, 1927), received on December 28 this year, at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, the National Prize for Cultural Heritage for lifetime achievement, 2021, which was awarded to him by the National Council of Cultural Heritage (CNPC), of the Ministry of Culture.

Source: Granma

December 30, 2021

On December 27th, Brigadier General of the Reserve Humberto Francis Pardo passed away in Havana at the age of 76, who for three decades was chief of the Personal Security Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, with an outstanding service record in protecting the physical integrity of the main Cuban leaders.

Source: Cubadebate

December 29, 2021

The play "Huevos rotos" is the new project that will occupy actors Susana Pérez and Albertico Pujol at the beginning of 2022.

Source: Cubanoticias360

December 29, 2021

The proclamation this Tuesday of Alberto Lescay Merencio as the recipient of the 2021 National Prize for Plastic Arts honored a creator fully committed to the development and destiny of contemporary Cuban culture, traits that are revealed at the highest level both in his sculptural work and in painting.

Source: Granma

December 27, 2021

In this sixth induction, the Electoral Group chose outfielder Antonio "Haitiano" González as the player from before 1961, while from the period after 1962 the selection fell to pitcher Rogelio García and also outfielder Armando Capiró.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 27, 2021

The emblematic Cuban orchestra Los Van Van got thousands of people dancing until the early hours of today at the Grand Timba Festival in the context of the Cali Fair.

Source: CubaSi

December 26, 2021

Two years after the premiere of the fifteenth short film in the "Tales of Nicanor O´Donnell" series, also considered the final episode of this Cuban writer Eduardo del Llano's cinematic creation, the artist has informed his official Facebook profile that he is working on a new production.

Source: Cubanoticias360

December 26, 2021

Frank Fernández is one of the few pianists with an extraordinary ability to erase time and the capacity to be reborn each time he touches a piano, which he demonstrated once again.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 25, 2021

Cuban Yoanki Mencía shines today among the most outstanding foreign players in Argentine basketball by being a key piece in the lineup of Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia.

Source: Cubadebate

December 25, 2021

At Casa de la Música Habana with the press and guests, and in his last presentation of the year, Will Campa revealed the details of a phonogram that has been playing on different media for several months, and which seems essential to conclude this difficult stage in a positive way in the style of Wil Campa and his "Zapato Nuevo".

Source: CubaSi

December 24, 2021

Chronicles of the Pandemic is the title of the new CD by humorist and singer-songwriter Alejandro García, better known as Virulo.

Source: La Jiribilla

December 24, 2021

The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is one of the least known among Cubans among the professional circuits in countries with baseball tradition.

Source: Swing Completo

December 23, 2021

They say he measured more than six feet tall, with brown and languid eyes, clean and pale skin.

Source: Cubadebate

December 23, 2021

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Valencia Basket, from Spain, will take to the court today in search of their fifth victory in the Eurocup basketball tournament, a competition that in terms of quality is only second to the Euroleague on the Old Continent.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

December 22, 2021

The stellar Cuban wrestler Mijaín López, four-time Olympic champion, won today the award for Best Male Athlete in the 57th edition of the traditional Prensa Latina Sports Poll.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 22, 2021

Carlos Ángel Valdés is the young Cuban singer who managed to position himself as a finalist on La Voz España.

Source: Tus noticias Cuba, El Nuevo Herald

December 21, 2021

Tú may perhaps be the shortest title I've seen for a soap opera, however, the production process was as long and complex as perhaps no other has been, since it happened during these hard years of pandemic.

Source: CubaSi

December 21, 2021

For the second year, the Iberoamerican Day of Dance celebrates the imperishable legacy of the teacher, choreographer and prima ballerina assoluta of Cuba, Alicia Alonso, who would be celebrating her 101st birthday today.

Source: Radio Jaruco

December 20, 2021

Actress, singer, presenter and journalist Mariana Ramírez-Corría, who developed an important career in Cuban television, died in Havana this Saturday at the age of 85.

Source: OnCubaNews

December 20, 2021

"Síntesis is my universe and Ele is its center.

Source: Granma

December 19, 2021

Cuban trumpeter José Miguel Crego, "el Greco", one of the most prominent instrumentalists in Cuban music, died in the early morning hours of this Saturday, December 18, as a result of respiratory failure, reported the Cuban Institute of Music (ICM).

Source: OnCubaNews

December 19, 2021

Cuban painter Douglas Pérez inaugurated an exhibition last Thursday, December 16th, as part of the second curatorial experience of the 14th edition of the Havana Biennial, with a work that draws on 1950s graphics to pay tribute to the Havana neighborhood Vedado and its evolution into the future.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 18, 2021

One of the most prominent symbols of Cuban music, Vicente Feliú, passed away this Friday, December 17, while he was beginning to sing at the Museum of Music in Havana, where it was to be his first complete concert after the pandemic.

Source: El Plural

December 18, 2021

Since 1995 the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS) has awarded prizes and scholarships to recognize the most outstanding exponents of young Cuban art in various artistic manifestations.

Source: TV Cubana

December 17, 2021

Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramírez (42-0, 28 KO) was a super middleweight champion, but when the division became too small for him, he didn't hesitate to move up to light heavyweight.

Source: As

December 17, 2021

The great Cuban actor and 2012 National Theater Prize recipient passed away in La Habana on December 16, 2021.

Source: Cubadebate

December 16, 2021

Mijaín López, Omara Durand and Idalys Ortiz lead the best exponents of Cuban sports in the year that is concluding, according to the report released this Wednesday as a result of the traditional vote organized by Inder and the specialized press.

Source: Jit

December 16, 2021

Cuban Miguel Ángel López was named the Most Valuable Player of the International Volleyball Federation's Volleyball Club World Championship, which concluded last Saturday with his team Sada Cruzeiro, from Brazil, winning 3-0 over defending champion Lube Civitanova of Italy.

Source: Cubasi

December 15, 2021

The guild of intellectuals and poets in Cuba mourns the physical passing of poet and writer Georgina Herrera, one of the most genuine voices in twentieth-century lyric poetry, who died this Monday at the age of 85.

Source: Cubadebate

December 15, 2021

Tropicana, the famous Cuban cabaret known throughout the world as "A Paradise Under the Stars," with more than 80 years of history, treasures a diversity of personal stories, creative achievements, and successes.

Source: OnCubaNews

December 14, 2021

Multimillionaire John Ruiz, a Cuban-American graduate of the University of Miami, wishes to build a new soccer stadium near the school's campus in the city of Coral Gables.

Source: Johnruiz.com

December 14, 2021

Cuban Adonis García will play again in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), but with a new team.

Source: Con las Bases Llenas

December 13, 2021

The legendary Cuban singer Omara Portuondo added another success to her extensive musical career with the World Pioneer 2021 award, granted by the prestigious British magazine Songlines.

Source: Cubadebate

December 13, 2021

Carlos Ángel Valdés is in the final of the competition "La Voz de España.

Source: Antena 3, Periódico Cubano

December 12, 2021

Cuban baseball player Santiago Torres, one of the island's top young prospects, signed a contract this week with the Federales de Chiriquí, a team in Panama's professional baseball league directed by Pinar del Río manager Alfonso Urquiola.

Source: ADN Cuba

December 12, 2021

Cuban television premieres, starting next December 27th, You, a new telenovela directed by Lester Hamlet, which counted on the work of the duo Amílcar Salatti-Yoel Infante, as well as Eduardo Vázquez and an original story that comes from the hand of Albertico Luberta.

Source: Granma

December 11, 2021

The lyric singer and teacher María Remolá, known as "The Cuban Nightingale", passed away on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at the age of 91 in a nursing home in the Dominican Republic, where she spent the last years of her life, reported the digital newspaper Nota Clave.

Source: Nota Clave

December 11, 2021

Cuban players Jasiel Rivero and Yoanki Mensía returned to action with their clubs in foreign basketball leagues, which have a full schedule in the final month of 2021.

Source: Granma

December 10, 2021

The documentary Tiempazo, by filmmaker Aurelio Prieto Alemán, premiered on December 7 at the José Martí Memorial Auditorium, in the capital's Plaza de la Revolución.

Source: CubaSi

December 10, 2021

Cuban singer-songwriter Luis Franco closed with great success his tour of the Dominican Republic called From Havana to Santo Domingo, with an acclaimed concert held at the central Chao Café Teatro in this capital.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 9, 2021

Young Cuban outfielder Dariam Gutiérrez, who left the Island in 2020, will begin his professional career with the Philadelphia Phillies after signing a contract with the Major League organization this Monday in the Dominican Republic, according to sports journalist Francys Romero in his blog.

Source: Momento Deportivo