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January 5, 2024

Renowned Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés announced that he will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the group Irakere with several concerts in U.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

January 5, 2024

Master Roberto Valera, National Prize for Music, is a simple man as true geniuses usually are.

Source: Cubasi

January 4, 2024

Legend of the Two Lovers, a Cuban 3D animation film based on songs by troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, is currently in production under the direction of the multi-award-winning filmmaker Ernesto Padrón, who also directed Meñique.

Source: Cubadebate

January 4, 2024

Cuban journalist Mario J Pentón announced today that he has decided to end his time as a reporter for América Tevé.

Source: Cubitanow

January 3, 2024

While the current ELO rating of the Cuban-born American chess player (2752) is not the highest of his career, his current position in the world ranking is indeed his best official position on this list, according to specialized media outlets.

Source: OnCubaNews

January 3, 2024

The Cuban Sports System and especially the athletics family mourn today the death, at 75 years of age, of the renowned triple jump coach Sigfredo Bandera, trainer of several Olympic and world medalists.

Source: Granma

January 2, 2024

Marcia Alejandra Garbey, the first Cuban female jumper to reach the Olympic Games finals, died this week at the age of 74.

Source: Cubitanow

January 2, 2024

Cuban-American comedian Marcello Hernández ended 2023 accompanied by the premiere of the music video "No me quiero casar," none other than alongside Bad Bunny.

Source: Cubanoticias 360

January 1, 2024

Former baseball player for the Santiago de Cuba Avispas in the National Series, Pedro Poll, was hospitalized at the end of this year due to a heart attack and is currently in the Intensive Care Unit of the Provincial Hospital "Saturnino Lora", according to official sources.

Source: ADN Cuba

January 1, 2024

The Cuban outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks in Major League Baseball (MLB), Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

Source: ADN Cuba

December 31, 2023

Haila María Mompié and reggaeton artist Yomil performed yesterday in the program celebrating the 25th anniversary of the musical magazine 23 y M, directed and hosted by Edith Masola, their most recent collaboration titled Tía Tata cuenta cuentos.

Source: Cubitanow

December 31, 2023

The award honors his intellectual trajectory, in which he has promoted an extensive line of work on cultural relations between Cuba and the United States.

Source: OnCubaNews

December 30, 2023

Cuban musician Alfredito Rodríguez celebrates this December 56 years of artistic career.

Source: Cubitanow

December 30, 2023

Historian and essayist Newton Briones Montoto died in Havana, as a result of what appears to have been an assault while walking down Fifth Avenue, Miramar.

Source: Cubitanow, OnCubaNews

December 29, 2023

Cuban Yargeris Savigne officially received the bronze medal from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Source: Play Off Magazine

December 29, 2023

On the afternoon of Tuesday, December 26, at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center, the jury in charge of awarding the National Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities 2023 announced that the award was conferred, unanimously, on the distinguished academic, Doctor of Historical Sciences Juan Jesús Guanche Pérez.

Source: Cubarte

December 28, 2023

Cuban-born Melissa Vargas, naturalized by Turkey, crowned an excellent 2023 in professional volleyball with the distinction of being the best player of the year, according to a specialized website.

Source: Play Off Magazine

December 28, 2023

In the early morning hours of December 27, 2023, Dr.

Source: Infomed

December 27, 2023

Barnet was one of the promoters of the international program the Slave Route, sponsored by Unesco, which has one of its most prominent expressions in the open museum, by initiative of the poet, in the Castle of San Severino, in Matanzas.

Source: Granma

December 27, 2023

The jury decided by majority to award the recognition to the author of Casas del Vedado for "the pioneering originality of her writing that has stood out for the cultivation of more than peculiar themes" The writer and journalist María Elena Llana Castro was the winner of the 2023 National Literature Prize, among 11 other nominated authors.

Source: Radio Caibarién

December 26, 2023

2023 has been a year of highs and lows for Livia Brito, the well-known actress originally from Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.

Source: MDZ

December 26, 2023

On the 103rd anniversary of Alicia Alonso's birth, the bibliographic and documentary exhibition Alicia Alonso en Nuestra América was inaugurated at the José Antonio Echeverría library at Casa de las Américas.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 24, 2023

Cuban comedian Luis Silva, who brings to life the character of Pánfilo in the popular television program Vivir del Cuento, celebrated two million followers on Facebook this Friday.

Source: Cubitanow

December 24, 2023

Naomi Ayé, a young musical talent of Cuban origin, has achieved a notable accomplishment by reaching the Eurovision 2024 final.

Source: Cubitanow

December 23, 2023

Cuban Miguel Ángel López has been recognized as the best volleyball player in the world by the distinguished statistical website Volleybox.

Source: CubaSi

December 23, 2023

In the early morning of December 18, 2023, Dr.

Source: Infomed, Ministerio de Salud Pública

December 22, 2023

The renowned Cuban actress and television host, Irela Bravo, surprised her followers by announcing with laughter and joking on the popular YouTube program "Derecho a Réplica," hosted by Ian Padrón, that she will take a long season in the United States.

Source: Chiva TV

December 22, 2023

After several days hospitalized, Jorge Garciaporrúa, musician, advisor, director, playwright, pedagogue and composer, died on December 19, 2023, at 8:30 p.

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December 20, 2023

The acclaimed wrestler also leads the annual survey by the Prensa Latina news agency, which, through votes from media in the Latin America and Caribbean region, selects the best athlete for each calendar year.

Source: Granma

December 20, 2023

Bolero is in mourning, Rolando Montero, El Muso, passed away in the capital this Saturday, December 16, 2023.

Source: Radio Cadena Habana

December 19, 2023

The legendary Cuban boxer Rolando Garbey died on December 16 due to two cardiac arrests during the course of peritonitis while he was recovering from a recent operation.

Source: ADN Cuba

December 19, 2023

The third gala of the International Camagua Folk Dance Festival granted the moment for the solemn public ceremony to present the 2023 National Dance Prize in this city to dancer, teacher and choreographer José Antonio Chávez Guetton.

Source: Adelante

December 18, 2023

Cuban canoeist Yarisleidis Cirilo Dubois was selected as the best female athlete of 2023 by the Sports Press Association of the Americas (AIPS), according to official media reports from the Island.

Source: Cubanet

December 18, 2023

United World Wrestling (UWW) nominated Cuban athlete Luis Alberto Orta as the Greco-Roman Wrestler of 2023.

Source: DimeCuba

December 16, 2023

The meeting place was one of the film's locations, which has become one of the most renowned restaurants in Havana.

Source: OnCubaNews

December 16, 2023

Cuban actress and director Blanca Rosa Blanco is participating in the 12th session of the International Film and Shared Memory Festival (FICMEC) with her documentary "Retorno".

Source: Cubanoticias 360

December 15, 2023

After a long illness, Professor Jorge Luis Pacheco Borrego passed away this afternoon in Havana.

Source: Facebook

December 15, 2023

The legacy of one of the most spectacular ballplayers in Cuban baseball, Germán Mesa, is not limited solely to all the wonderful things he accomplished glove in hand as a shortstop inside and outside of Cuba.

Source: CubaSi

December 13, 2023

Choreographer and dancer Lizt Alfonso received in Havana the National Choreography Award from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) for her 2023 show "Habana Fénix".

Source: Cubanoticias 360

December 13, 2023

In one of the best fights of the year, "El Divino" takes the featherweight world crown, but there will be a rematch.

Source: Diario de las Américas

December 12, 2023

More than a decade has passed since Cuban Aroldis Chapman dazzled baseball fans by recording the fastest pitch in the Major Leagues, something that has now been validated to be recognized and immortalized by Guinness World Records.

Source: El Diario NY

December 12, 2023

The prestigious Cuban actress of cinema, theater, and television Eslinda Núñez received the Coral Prize of Honor during the opening of the 44th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

Source: Radio Enciclopeida

December 11, 2023

Cuban deputy Rolando González Patricio today assumed the presidency of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino), following the end of the term of Argentine senator Silvia Giacoppo (2022-2023).

Source: Prensa Latina

December 11, 2023

Cuban sports commentator and narrator Hiram Sánchez Cajide died in the eastern province of Las Tunas after a strong battle due to secondary complications from dengue.

Source: Cubitanow

December 10, 2023

Cuban former high jumper Javier Sotomayor, world record holder and Olympic champion from Barcelona 1992, received today here the Legend of the Americas award, granted by Panam Sports.

Source: Prensa Latina

December 10, 2023

Some of the Cuban singer's fans traveled from different parts of Italy so as not to miss the energetic presentation.

Source: Asere

December 8, 2023

On the afternoon of Thursday, December 7, 2023, in a simple ceremony held in one of the halls of the Meliá Cohiba Hotel, the SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) presented the institution's key to a group of Cuban artists.

Source: Facebook

December 7, 2023

Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca is presenting his latest work 'La gran diversión' these days in several European countries, a work that according to him transcends strictly musical limits and immerses itself in the roots of Afro-Cuban sounds.

Source: Cubanoticias 360