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March 17, 2021

Comedian and theater director Alexis Valdés and singer Willy Chirino premiered last Monday "Yo soy cubano", a song that celebrates the Cuban diaspora.

March 17, 2021

Cuban Jasiel Rivero contributed 10 points today in his club Hereda San Pablo Burgos's victory with a score of 101-79 against CB Canarias, in the second phase of the Basketball Champions League, one of the highest-level tournaments in Europe.

March 16, 2021

Cuban discus thrower Yaimé Pérez continues to show great form ahead of Tokyo 2020, and on this occasion threw the implement to 67.

March 16, 2021

Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) celebrates the achievement of several awards in the Ballet Beyond Borders competition, held in the United States.

March 15, 2021

Cuban cycling star, Arlenis Sierra, suffered an accident while training in Italy, which caused her several bruises on her body and face, but she has no fractures and is already recovering at home.

March 15, 2021

On March 13th, Doctor of Sciences, Professor Desiderio Pozo Lauzán, Honorary Member of the Cuban Society of Pediatrics and the Provincial Chapter of Havana, passed away in Havana.

March 14, 2021

The popular Cuban actress Beatriz Valdés was hospitalized last Friday in Miami due to Covid-19.

March 14, 2021

Once again Casa Editora Abril is in mourning, as the COVID-19 pandemic has just taken the life of our dear colleague Lucía Sanz Araujo, despite her fighting like a warrior.

March 13, 2021

The renowned Cuban actor Mario Balmaseda (Havana, 1941) was recognized today with the National Film Award 2021, for his versatility and exceptional career, which have also earned him the National Awards for Theater (2006) and Television (2019).

March 13, 2021

The motto embraced by Cuban opposition "Homeland and Life" has occupied since this Tuesday an entire facade of the Miami Graffiti Museum (USA), after urban artist Jel Martínez completed the mural with spray paint.

March 11, 2021

The Instituto Latino de la Música (ILM) premiered on social media, in celebration of International Women's Day, the animated short film Tito Reacts to Alicia Alonso, a profound look that serves as a tribute to the Prima Ballerina Assoluta from the series of the well-known Mexican character.

March 11, 2021

Madeline Pumariega has been since January the first female president of Miami Dade College (MDC), the largest university in the United States, which graduates annually 83% of students of Hispanic origin and 12% of African Americans.

March 10, 2021

The Goya Awards gala held last Saturday at the theater in Málaga—without public attendance due to coronavirus—remembered Cuban filmmaker Juan Carlos Tabío in the 'In memoriam' section, dedicated to professionals who have passed away since the previous edition.

March 10, 2021

Cuban midfielder Marcel Hernández scored three goals last Saturday in Alajuelense's 5-1 victory over Pérez Zeledón in the 2021 Clausura Tournament of Costa Rica's first division football.

March 9, 2021

Veteran Cuban midfielder Osvaldo Alonso will stay one more season with Minnesota United in what will be his thirteenth season in the United States Professional Soccer League (MLS).

March 9, 2021

One of the lead vocalists of the Karachi orchestra, the popular singer Dagoberto Planos Despaigne, passed away last week in Santiago de Cuba at the age of 64, a victim of complications from liver cirrhosis.

March 8, 2021

The multifaceted Cuban musician Alain Pérez, based on the Island, will be one of the protagonists of the fourth edition of Global Cuba Fest, which already began on March 6 in the American city of Miami.

March 8, 2021

In a post made on Facebook, Willie Chirino mentioned that soon, on March 15, the song "I am Cuban" will premiere on social networks, presented that day in remembrance of "THE PROTEST OF BARAGUÁ on March 15, 1878".

March 7, 2021

Cuban Milena Venegas qualified for Tokyo-2020 after finishing fourth in the A final, in the lightweight division, held yesterday afternoon, at the rowing pre-Olympic championship, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

March 7, 2021

Havana-born writer Barbarella González Acevedo, known as Barbarella D'Acevedo, won the XIX Paco Mollá Poetry Competition in Spanish with the work Érebo.

March 6, 2021

Cuban athlete Juan Miguel Echevarría will be one of the athletes to watch at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

March 6, 2021

Gianny García took an impressive step forward in his second professional presentation.

March 5, 2021

Cuban doctor Bárbaro Gutiérrez Cabrera was elected vice president of the Medical and Anti-Doping Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), according to an announcement made to Jit by Alberto Puig, president of the Cuban Boxing Federation.

March 5, 2021

Cuban Jasiel Rivero received honors within the Basketball Champions League of Europe, after being selected among the five best players of the first playoff round.

March 4, 2021

Cuban journalist Náyare Menoyo received this Wednesday the King of Spain Journalism Prize in the Television category, believing that the award is "a prize for the audacity" of interviewing someone like her compatriot Leonardo Padura.

March 4, 2021

In the early morning of March 2, 2021, at Miguel Enríquez Hospital, DrC.

March 3, 2021

The Cuban Rum Masters Movement decided to promote its youngest member, César Augusto Martí Marcelo, to First Master; and they shared the reasons through the official Facebook account of Cuba Ron S.

March 3, 2021

The Santiago Álvarez in Memoriam International Documentary Festival, which is held annually in Santiago de Cuba, will reach its XIX edition next March in virtual format, due to the health measures established to prevent the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.

March 2, 2021

Choral director and music producer, Beatriz Corona, received on Monday the Ibermúsicas Prize for Choral Composition, thus becoming the first woman to merit this honor.

March 2, 2021

Estée Lauder announced that it has hired Ana de Armas, an actress nominated for a Golden Globe award and honored on the TIME100 Next 2021 list, as the new ambassador for its global brand.

March 1, 2021

Norge Vera, son of stellar Cuban pitcher Norge Luis Vera, signed a million-dollar contract with the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball (MLB) and joins in this way the long list of Cubans that make up the White Sox team.

March 1, 2021

Just two months before turning 82 years old, on the night of February 27 of this year 2021, the physical passing of an outstanding physician, public health expert, and excellent administrator became known—a man who always put first the people who received health services from the institution he directed, also offering care to their families, and, in second place, to the workers who had to guarantee the best quality of that care for people, families, and the community.

February 28, 2021

Since December 11th, the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana has a new space dedicated to cinema.

February 28, 2021

On the afternoon of February 26th, renowned Cuban actress and radio broadcaster Martha Velasco passed away in Havana at the age of 95.

February 27, 2021

The Porto club confirmed the death of Cuban handball player Alfredo Quintana and sport in Portugal is in mourning, as reflected by press outlets such as Tribuna Expreso, Ionline and JM Madeira.

February 27, 2021

Rosa Miriam Elizalde Zorrilla —journalist and researcher, First Vice President of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, assistant professor at the University of Havana and the International Institute of Journalism "José Martí", among many other tasks that occupy almost all the hours of every day of her life—, has been awarded the National Journalism Prize José Martí (2021) for lifetime achievement, the highest individual recognition that the organization grants to professionals of recognized prestige and contribution to Cuban journalism.

February 26, 2021

Cuban Miguel Ángel López reaffirmed himself as the best server of the Brazilian Superliga, contributing three points by direct ace, 15 in total, to Sada Cruzeiro's success by 3-0 over Montes Claros America Volei, thus maintaining the top of the South American tournament, with 18 victories and one defeat.

February 26, 2021

Cuban reggaeton singer, Yosvanis Arismín Sierra Hernández, known as Chocolate MC, was discharged and is at home.

February 25, 2021

Long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría maintained his undefeated record during the current indoor track and field season and with his success this Wednesday at the Madrid meeting secured first place in the winter circuit.

February 25, 2021

The song "Patria y Vida" composed and performed by Cuban rappers, has gone viral on social media, and has generated an angry official response in Havana and has also intensified the cultural battle over the situation in Cuba.

February 24, 2021

The goalkeeper for the Portuguese national handball team Alfredo Quintana, of Cuban origin, has been hospitalized following a cardiorespiratory arrest during a training session last Monday, announced his club FC Porto.

February 24, 2021

Cuban Jasiel Rivero reaffirmed himself as the second-best Latin American player in the ACB League of basketball in Spain, considered the highest level in Europe.

February 23, 2021

Carlo Padial will be in charge of directing the adaptation of his own novel which will begin in Barcelona next March 8 As major national and international platforms have done before, the Spanish Filmin is now launching into its own production of television series with the adaptation of the novel "Doctor Portuondo" by Carlo Padial, whose filming will begin next month in Barcelona.

February 23, 2021

Delicias con miel is one of the titles from the Artechef publishing house nominated for the prestigious Gourmand Award, recognized as the most important international honor in that genre of literature.

February 22, 2021

Yulieski Gurriel is already training, as is his custom, days before joining spring training with the Houston Astros.

February 22, 2021

In the afternoon hours of Sunday, February 21st, images were shared on the profile of Cuban reggaeton artist Yosvani A.

February 21, 2021

The renowned Cuban interpreter, composer and audiovisual filmmaker X Alfonso premiered his new work Dale Conga last Friday, a piece that, according to a message at the beginning of its playback, is not a music video, it is "something else".

February 21, 2021

Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría will participate in the athletics event that Madrid, Spain will host, scheduled to take place on the 24th.

February 20, 2021

February is a month that smells of music, of Cuban spirit, of natural talent, for it remembers the death of El Bárbaro del Ritmo, Benny Moré, the greatest Cuban musician of the twentieth century, and the birth of Ibrahim Ferrer, another figure who filled Cubans with joy through his contagious and cheerful voice, despite the hardships that struck his life.

February 20, 2021

Cuban-origin Senator Ted Cruz apologized this Thursday after traveling to Mexico to spend a family vacation, something he later considered as "obviously a mistake" for doing so in the midst of the deadly winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without electricity in Texas.