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February 8, 2020

Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López, ranked as the second greatest in the history of that discipline, confirmed that he will retire after competing in Tokyo 2020, where he aspires to a fourth Olympic gold for a spectacular farewell.

February 7, 2020

Google's search engine paid tribute this Thursday to the legendary Cuban singer and composer Maria Teresa Vera, with the creation of a "doodle" —temporary alteration of the homepage logo— for the artist's 125th birthday.

February 7, 2020

Cuban pianist and composer Frank Fernández is preparing a concert today in a room specially equipped for musical production in the historic church Allerheiligen-Hofkirche, in Munich, Germany.

February 6, 2020

Cuban comedian Andy Vázquez, who played the character Facundo Correcto on Vivir del Cuento until his controversial suspension from the popular television program on the Island, confirmed that he does not plan to return to Cuba from the United States, where he has been visiting since before the end of the year.

February 6, 2020

This is an awards ceremony for hip hop, R&B, soul music, and dance that has existed since 2003, and is currently celebrated in countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

February 5, 2020

Cuban Javier Justiz, a member of the Spanish club Casademont Zaragoza, from the ACB Liga Endesa basketball league, will not compete for the rest of the 2020 season in that competition due to an injury to his left knee.

February 5, 2020

In an interview granted to Spanish journalist Sergio Heredia and published by the La Vanguardia website, 52-year-old Javier Sotomayor is a celebrity in sports.

February 4, 2020

A new James Bond saga is coming, and it will be Cuban actress Ana de Armas who becomes the new "Bond girl," returning to Cuba through fiction, as the film will recreate part of the Island, to draw closer to Ana's origins, who continues to reap success in Hollywood.

February 4, 2020

Recently recognized with the National Prize for Cultural Research 2019, María del Carmen Ariet García, Doctor of Historical Sciences, has fully lived up to the Martian maxim that "to educate is to deposit in each man all the human work that has preceded him.

February 3, 2020

The Barbados International Independent Film Festival awarded the Special Lifetime Achievement Award to Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando.

February 3, 2020

With the book The Nature of Summer, Cuban poet Luis Manuel Pérez-Boitel won the Nicolás Guillén National Poetry Prize 2020.

February 2, 2020

Verónica Lynn, who has been the recipient of the Special Honorary Award for Performance "Enrique Almirante" 2019, granted by the Artistic Representations Agency Caricatos, asserts that in her 66 years of artistic work, her life has been her profession.

February 2, 2020

The musician Wilfredo Naranjo Verdecia, director of the Original Orchestra of Manzanillo, deserved on Tuesday afternoon the Abdala Prize, which is awarded by the Martiano Youth Movement (MJM).

February 1, 2020

No one can predict what couple relationships will be like in the future.

February 1, 2020

Gastón Baquero is, without a doubt, one of Cuba's greatest poets.

January 31, 2020

Cuban author Abel González Melo won the Casa de las Américas Prize 2020 in the Theater category for the work "Bayamesa.

January 31, 2020

The legendary Cuban singer Omara Portuondo shared the stage with Puerto Rican salsa artist Andy Montañez in a presentation recently offered by the Diva of Buena Vista Social Club at Plaza Antón Recio in the Los Sitios neighborhood in Havana.

January 30, 2020

Former Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor received the Sports Myth award this Monday during the gala celebrated by the prestigious Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.

January 30, 2020

At the conference, there was discussion of a documentary that will be exhibited soon in these parts and has already been screened in some states of the United States and countries in Europe, titled "Eliades Ochoa: from Cuba to the world", which recognizes him a place in the history of Cuban music.

January 29, 2020

Ana de Arma generates interest from both the press and the public, and that may have been one of the reasons why she was selected to bring Marilyn Monroe to life in Blonde, the new Netflix production.

January 29, 2020

The musical event will be dedicated to Cuban master Leo Brouwer's 80th anniversary and the activities program will span the provinces of Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba.

January 27, 2020

The Cuban group Orishas and Spanish singer Beatriz Luengo released this week the song "Ojalá pase".

January 27, 2020

Unexpected for many, but more than transcendental for the Island's audience, was the tie between Cuban musician Aymée Nuviola and Puerto Rican Marc Anthony at the Grammy Awards.

January 26, 2020

On January 25, Mirtha performed a concert at Alfaro's to celebrate her birthday, which will be on January 28.

January 26, 2020

We reproduce the interview published on the digital site La trinchera conducted by journalist Sender Escobar.

January 25, 2020

It was around the year 1979.

January 25, 2020

The imminent publication of a report on the functioning of the Luxembourg monarchy has set off alarms in the royal house.

January 24, 2020

The host of "Caso Cerrado", Ana María Polo, announced that she will have her own movie.

January 24, 2020

Normally, the recipient of a Prize feels immensely gratified for their work, but the case that titles this note should be interpreted differently: The Union of Journalists of Cuba is honored to have awarded the Prize of Dignity to Graziella Pogolotti.

January 23, 2020

The educator Asela de los Santos passed away on January 23, 2020.

January 23, 2020

One of the most relevant young Cuban filmmakers today, Luis Alejandro Yero, was invited to participate in Berlinale Talents 2020, a summit that is part of the 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, thanks to his films, which combine the intimate and the political as rare atmospheres that haunt his resilient characters.

January 22, 2020

The novelist, poet, essayist, and ethnologist Miguel Barnet received this Tuesday in Havana the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of the Arts, for a body of work that has explored and contributed to revealing valuable areas of Cubanness, with a recognized ethical and social vocation.

January 22, 2020

The renowned Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal will participate in the Rapsodia Underground concert season, to be held in the city of Naples, Italy.

January 21, 2020

After more than 20 years of residing in Spain, Octavio Carrera González, former professor at the University of Havana, was elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Masonic Council of Spain, the highest figure of "liberal" freemasonry in that country.

January 21, 2020

Many follow him with permanent loyalty at each of his performances in Cuba and on international stages, overflowing with emotions from his exquisite music always imbued with fine poetry, managing to become enraptured by that lyricism that only the sensitivity of his inspiration promotes from the profound and intimate expression of his feelings or valuing his virtuosity in all its dimension simply by hearing his name: José María Vitier.

January 20, 2020

Historian and chronicler of Cuban baseball Ismael Sené Alegret passed away Saturday, January 20 in the morning in Havana, Cuban press reported.

January 20, 2020

Orlando Cantó, founder of the Van Van orchestra, died on Friday in Havana at the age of 82, as announced by the group on its social media.

January 19, 2020

The renowned Cuban artists Luisa María Jiménez and Patricio Wood began this 2020 with a new joint project that will surely bring more than one joy to the admirers of good Cuban cinema.

January 19, 2020

The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) held a tribute at the Villena Hall of its national headquarters to Cuban filmmaker Octavio Cortázar (1935-2008), on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of his birth.

January 17, 2020

The La Palma Film Commission office, through which the Cabildo promotes the island as a natural film set, has received a visit from renowned Cuban actress and director Blanca Rosa Blanco and producer Carlos de la Huerta, from the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry, with the objective of finalizing all the details for the upcoming filming of a documentary, produced by the aforementioned Cuban ministry, about the effects of emigration on the island of La Palma and which will be recorded not only on the Beautiful Island but also in Cuba.

January 17, 2020

The outstanding Cuban Paralympic athlete Omara Durand has been nominated for the 2020 Laureus Awards, which recognize the best athletes of the year.

January 15, 2020

Artist and businessman Pitbull will be the master of ceremonies for the 2020 edition of Premios Lo Nuestro (PLN), the only award show exclusively for Latino artists in the United States.

January 15, 2020

A tribute to Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez at the Santa Clara cultural center La Luna Naranja, followed by the usual jam session, served as the closing, last Sunday, of the 24th edition of the National Trovadores Festival Longina canta a Corona.

January 14, 2020

A tribute to Cuban trova and, especially, to the work of Pablo Milanés was represented in the concert offered by Cuban Haydeé Milanés at the La Caridad theater in Santa Clara.

January 14, 2020

Arlenis Sierra is a cyclist who continues to grow and amaze us with her performances.

January 13, 2020

Less than a year after his last performances in Washington, in March and April of 2019, Cimafunk and his band offered a concert at Union Stage in the U.

January 13, 2020

The Teatro Metropólitan, in downtown Mexico City, will host on January 29 at 8:30 p.

January 11, 2020

Cuban visual artist Rafael San Juan is grateful today that the Honoris Causa Internacional Foundation, established in Mexico, decided to name him Man of the Year 2019.

January 11, 2020

He is not a regular at gyms or weightlifting, nor does he have prominent biceps… So where does Yasmani Fonseca Estrada get his strength from, a young man from Camagüey visiting Santiago, who can pull heavy cars with a rope in his mouth, as if it were a minor effort.

January 10, 2020

With Lester Hamlet, the director of films like Casa Vieja and Fábula, we had an exclusive conversation about his first telenovela.