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September 29, 2020

Last Sunday night, when thousands of Cubans settled in front of their TV screens at home to enjoy one of the best dramas produced by Cuban Television, LCB, the other war, the best tribute will be paid to Miguel Leonardo Sosa Perich, a creator who dedicated his life to work behind the cameras and who was one of the directors of the aforementioned series.

Source: Granma

September 28, 2020

"De raíces y versiones" is Miriam Ramos's most recent album release.

Source: La Jiribilla

September 28, 2020

On the morning of Saturday, September 26, Cuban diplomat José Antonio Arbesú Fraga, 80 years old, passed away in Havana after a long and painful illness.

Source: Cubadebate

September 27, 2020

The Argentine publishing house Chirimbote in its "Antiheroes" collection has just published Silvio Rodríguez for Girls and Boys, a children's book written by Martín Azcurra and Nadia Fink, with illustrations by Pitu Saá.

Source: Granma

September 27, 2020

After losing six straight games, last night the White Sox were down four to five in the bottom of the fourth.

Source: Diario de Cuba

September 26, 2020

Renowned actress María Isabel Díaz Lago, who became known as an Almodóvar Girl, posted this past weekend a TBT or throwback with the admired Spanish film director to whom she owes that distinctive title.

Source: ADN Cuba

September 26, 2020

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne hit his fifth home run of the current Japanese baseball season on Friday in his team SoftBank Hawks' loss to the Lotte Marines (4-7).

Source: Cubadebate

September 25, 2020

BBC Mundo has created a list with the help of its readers, where a survey was conducted asking which song they would take to a deserted island, the one that would always be with them until their last memory.

Source: BBC News

September 25, 2020

Former Republican congresswoman and Cuban American, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, is under federal investigation for alleged use of campaign funds for personal use.

Source: OnCuba News

September 24, 2020

In many different ways, we have confirmation of the essential referential compass that Leo Brouwer's work represents in the repertoire of guitarists far and wide across the planet.

Source: Granma

September 24, 2020

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

Source: Jit

September 23, 2020

The great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta (Havana, 1973), one of the most important figures in the Cuban school of ballet and male dance of our time, has just been awarded the Annual Prize from the magazine "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 from Centro Mixto Obdulio Morales de Zulueta and Instituto Preuniversitario Vocacional de Ciencias Exactas (IPVCE) "Ernesto Guevara" of Villa Clara, respectively, won bronze medals in the 32nd edition of the International Informatics Olympiad, organized by Singapore and disputed among competitors from around 90 nations in a virtual manner.

Source: Universidad Central "Marta Abreu", Las Villas

September 22, 2020

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

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 maternity or shared motherhood of the couple formed by Dachelys Valdés and Hope Bastian, residents in 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 dance music, celebrates 61 years of life on 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 await 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 the Tired Ox, which constitutes his 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 is maintaining his good pace personally in the 2020 season of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Source: Swingcompleto.com

September 16, 2020

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 deep and lasting impact on the spiritual life of the nation.

Source: Granma

September 15, 2020

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

Source: Cibercuba

September 15, 2020

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

Source: Juventud Rebelde

September 14, 2020

Neuroscientist Roberto Rodríguez Labrada was elected as a Young Affiliated Member of the World Academy of Sciences (The World Acadamy of Science, TWAS).

Source: Juventud Técnica

September 14, 2020

Cuban reliever Raidel Martínez, of Chunichi Dragons, recorded his twelfth save 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 International Buenos Aires Festival (Fidba 2020) on September 24.

Source: Bohemia

September 13, 2020

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

Source: Cibercuba

September 12, 2020

Prominent Cuban meteorologist Dr.

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, featured in the lineup of the Mucho Festival, 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

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

Source: Bohemia

September 9, 2020

An unprecedented double at the Spanish indoor track championships in Ourense (60 meters flat and hurdles) and four victories in his four outdoor races, once freed from confinement, paint 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 hospitalized in 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 vote by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) 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 Léonide Massine Positano Dance Prize 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 Dr.

Source: Granma

September 5, 2020

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

Source: Uneac

September 5, 2020

Cuban Luis Robert is seriously vying for the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 2020.

Source: Swingcompleto.com

September 4, 2020

The renowned Cuban historian Eduardo Torres Cuevas, doctor of Historical Sciences, was born in Havana on a day like today in 1942, and has dedicated his life to the study and research of Cuba's history, contributing his work as a teacher and the publication of an important collection 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, achieving another scoreless inning this Thursday in the second most competitive tournament in this sport at the global level.

Source: Granma

September 3, 2020

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

Source: Radio Habana Cuba