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October 19, 2021

Ivette Cepeda and Reflexión continue the launch of their new album, La Rosa de Jericó, with the presentation of the song Me va la vida en ello, a composition by Luis Eduardo Aute, performed together with the gypsy group Los Yakis, from Spain.

Source: Cubadebate

October 18, 2021

Cuban-American Grandmaster Leinier Domínguez achieved his ninth draw on the tenth and penultimate day of the U.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 18, 2021

Brigadier General of the Reserve Manuel de Jesús Rey Soberón passed away on Friday, October 15th as a result of COVID-19, according to a report by the Cuban Television National News NTV.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 17, 2021

Singer Leoni Torres, one of the most popular Cuban musicians today, has been in the city of Miami for several weeks, where he decided to settle "for an extended period" to continue his successful career.

Source: Cubanoticias360

October 17, 2021

Cuban essayist and professor Emilio Ichikawa Morín passed away on the morning of October 11, 2021 in Miami, at the age of 59, from complications derived from COVID-19, after spending several weeks hospitalized in intensive care.

Source: Cibercuba

October 16, 2021

Cuban actor Abel Rodríguez, ex-partner of Edith Massola and father of young presenter Paula Massola, died in the early morning of October 15 in the city of Miami where he had lived for years.

Source: Cubacute, Directorio Cubano

October 16, 2021

For the prestigious intellectual Alejo Carpentier, there are two types of popular music that conquered the planet in the past century: American jazz and Cuban music.

Source: Granma

October 15, 2021

The legendary Cuban high jumper, Javier Sotomayor, is celebrating this month two important dates: his birthday, on October 13th and the 19th, the moment of his induction into the Central American athletics Hall of Fame.

Source: Cubadebate

October 15, 2021

Yulia Clark Feoklistova, professor at the University of Guantánamo (UG), promoted the generalization of techniques for the diagnosis of Wilson's Disease (WD) which is transmitted by autosomal recessive inheritance and is usually fatal before age 50.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 14, 2021

The executive, former athlete and Cuban Seventh Dan Iván Fernández Quirós was elected member of the Executive Council of the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU), where he will represent the Caribbean for the 2021-2025 period.

Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias, ACN

October 14, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the composition of its new Scientific Advisory Group on the Origin of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), in which Cuban virologist María Guadalupe Guzmán, along with 25 other experts, will have the mission of continuing to investigate how COVID-19 emerged, among other diseases.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 13, 2021

Cuban singers Willy Chirino and Leoni Torres will join together during Chirino's concert in Miami on October 30th.

Source: ADN Cuba

October 13, 2021

There are not many stories within Cuban baseball capable of surpassing in tragedy and sorrow the one related to the protagonist of this piece, a person who went from one extreme to another in his life and of whom today practically no news exists about his real whereabouts.

Source: Swing Completo

October 12, 2021

The film tells an alternate reality, where Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man Coyula has spent months in which, every Sunday, he invites spectators interested in seeing a very peculiar production within current Cuban cinema.

Source: 14 y medio

October 12, 2021

The month of October marks the history of Cuba with unforgettable events due to their significance.

Source: Infomed

October 11, 2021

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra has signed a two-year contract (2022-2023) with the prestigious Movistar club from Spain, one of only nine teams with the highest category in the UCI Women's World Team elite.

Source: CubaSi

October 11, 2021

The Young Talents for Women in Science prize in its 15th edition, presented by Unesco and French company L'Oréal, was awarded to Cuban scientist Gladys Gutiérrez-Bugallo, researcher at the IPK, it became known this Thursday.

Source: Cubainformacion

October 10, 2021

No one on this land, who breathes the air of this land, feels disconnected from what Dionisio de Jesús Valdés, Chucho, represents in Cuban musical culture.

Source: Granma, OnCubaNews

October 10, 2021

On October 7, 2021, the unfortunate news was announced of the death of the prominent basketball player and coach Franklin Standard Johnson.

Source: Granma, Play off Magazine

October 9, 2021

He made the right-handed pitcher throw it away and stole the plate on the left-hander.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 9, 2021

A seminar paying tribute to the centenary of the renowned master of Cuban modern dance, Ramiro Guerra, closes this October 8th, after sessions held online.

Source: Granma

October 8, 2021

During Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated in the United States, Cuban Camila Cabello has become the first Latina woman to receive a diamond record for a single.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 8, 2021

The most recent hit by Alexander Abreu and Havana D'Primera bears the name of an important deity of Afro-Cuban religion, "Azowano", better known as Babalú Ayé or Saint Lazarus.

Source: Cibercuba

October 7, 2021

Singer-songwriter Liuba María Hevia announced her new projects in collaboration with the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic).

Source: OnCubaNews

October 7, 2021

Grand Masters Lázaro Bruzón and Leinier Domínguez drew their respective opening games in the 2021 edition of the United States Chess Championship, which kicked off with a dozen players gathered at the already traditional venue of San Luis A debutant in these competitions and removed from master level play for years, Bruzón (ELO rating of 2645) was never at a disadvantage against the colossal Fabiano Caruana, a player with a rating of 2800, and his performance had the added merit of achieving it with the black pieces.

Source: Cibercuba

October 6, 2021

Her results make her the best cyclist of all time in Cuba in both genders.

Source: Diario de Cuba

October 6, 2021

"Epicentro", a new album that brings together for the first time a dozen Cuban urban music artists, including the famous duo Gente de Zona, seeks to take the genre "to a more international sound" by mixing afrobeat with reggaeton and tropical pop, according to its producer, Cuban Dale Pututi.

Source: Los Angeles TImes

October 5, 2021

Yulieski Gurriel is making history in MLB.

Source: Cubatel

October 5, 2021

Journalist Juan Antonio Borrego Díaz died from complications associated with COVID-19.

Source: Cubadebate

October 4, 2021

Marta Rojas, Cuban writer and journalist, passed away yesterday Sunday, October 3rd as a result of a heart attack.

Source: Cubadebate

October 4, 2021

Amid cries of "Long Live Cuba," demands on the United States to end the blockade, and a tribute to Spanish singer-songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute, Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez performed yesterday before a massive audience at the Wizink Center in Madrid.

Source: OnCubaNews

October 3, 2021

The renowned Cuban doctors Ricardo González Menéndez and Héctor Terry Molinet died from complications resulting from contracting coronavirus in Cuba.

Source: Cibercuba, Infomed

October 3, 2021

In the context of the recently celebrated 110th anniversary of the birth of the great Ignacio Villa, Bola de Nieve, a tribute CD is being produced in Cuba, directed by young saxophonist Michel Herrera, under the label of the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM).

Source: Cubadebate

October 2, 2021

Cuban singer Erick Iglesias Rodríguez, known artistically as Cimafunk, announced on his social networks the dates of his upcoming "El Alimento" tour through various cities in the United States and Europe.

Source: Asere

October 2, 2021

Cuban comedian and presenter Alexis Valdés shared a photograph alongside American actors Woody Harrelson and Judy Greer, with whom he is working on a series produced by HBO.

Source: Periodico Cubano

October 1, 2021

CNN en Español announces that Cuban writer and poet Wendy Guerra is joining the network as a contributor and analyst, as well as creator of alternative content for digital and linear platforms.

Source: CNN en español

October 1, 2021

The Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kourí" reports the passing, on September 29, 2021, of the esteemed professor Dr.

Source: Infomed

September 30, 2021

Cuban vocalist Eme Alfonso starred in the Tiny Desk Home musical initiative, which celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, with a series of concerts from home and connects renowned artists from Latin America.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba

September 30, 2021

Cuban specialist in infectious diseases María Guadalupe Guzmán received the Unesco Women and Science award in its 2022 edition for her research on dengue, the multilateral organization reported this Thursday.

Source: Cubaminrex

September 29, 2021

When María del Mar Bonet sang Amor in a plaza in the Barcelona neighborhood of Nous Barris last Sunday, the author of the music, at the piano, must have once again evoked in a very special way the poet, his father Cintio Vitier, to whom all of Cuba paid honors the day before for the centennial of his birth.

Source: Granma

September 29, 2021

Cuban singer Omara Portuondo announced her nomination for Best Tropical Song at the 2021 Grammy Latinos for the song Bolero a la Vida, which she performs alongside Gaby Moreno.

Source: Cubasi

September 28, 2021

The National Council of the Performing Arts reported through its Facebook page that the renowned Cuban actor Manuel Porto passed away today, September 28, as a result of COVID.

Source: Cubarte

September 28, 2021

A pleasant surprise for the authors has been the nomination of the song 'Patria y Vida' for the 2021 Latin Grammy.

Source: Cubitanow

September 27, 2021

Asley is the first case of a Cuban Olympic medalist who, without having to defect, renounces representing Cuba to do so for another nation's team.

Source: Infobae

September 27, 2021

Colonel Eladio Julián Fernández Cívico, director of the state business group GEOCUBA, died on Saturday, September 25 in Havana as a result of Covid-19, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR).

Source: Diario de Cuba

September 26, 2021

It is well known to everyone that Yulieski Gurriel, better known as "La Piña" is in full battle for the batting title, but far from the spotlight of media attention, Yulieski is co-leader of the Major Leagues in an important department that is often overlooked, sacrifice flies.

Source: Swing Completo

September 26, 2021

On the night of September 23, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Full Professor and Consultant of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Master of Latin American Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dr.

Source: Facebook

September 25, 2021

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will donate to the solidarity organization Medicuba-España the profits from his upcoming two concerts in Madrid, as well as the fee for the XIX Leteo Prize, which will be presented to him on the 27th in the city of León.

Source: Cubainformación

September 25, 2021

On Saturday, September 25th, we will commemorate the centennial of the birth that occurred in Key West of this distinguished writer and scholar of Cuban culture.

Source: La Jiribilla

September 24, 2021

Young Cuban pitcher Luis Dannys Morales abandoned the Island team that will participate in the third U-23 World Baseball Championship, which is taking place in Ciudad Obregón, in the Mexican state of Sonora.

Source: 14 y medio